Recent content by garbribre

The other buildings don't seem to be greatly affected. However, 225 Franklin, at least in those two-month old pictures, seems to lose some of the drama of the protruding, hanging bays over the sunken plaza now that it's flattened and evened out with the glass extensions/enclosures. Yeah, I...

Re: $1 billion development proposed to reshape downtown Quincy Even $800 billion doesn't pay for one good brain. :p This has nothing to do with brains. :rolleyes: If it did--if any large scale developments did... well, you can all fill in your own blanks for comparison. I am glad somebody...

And blade... where are your pictures? Hmmmm....? ;) I would disagree that it would be too dense of a model for Allston. This is just what Allston needs and the adjoining neighborhoods should want. In the preliminary drawings that I saw, it seemed as dense, with taller profiles along the...

Pffff. Hardly! Get to the back of the line. :) Sometimes, when I read stuff here, I have to assume many of you live in some protective bubble, surrounded by books, and don't get out much. It sucks everywhere, and is much worse in so many places than how much it sucks there. The empty...

Not that South Hadley couldn't have worked, looking more rock solid, and I mean that metaphorically, but it's suitable for its environment. Holyoke and Sorbonne are not comparable physical and population places, I mean, really. Harvard's Allston plan to Sorbonne--yeah, that could work in terms...

^ Yup. Spent all the money on the main cathedral and did the rest like a bunker. However, the area below the main cathedral is suitably built out of concrete for its purpose--a crypt/mausoleum. The rest of it--inexcusable. The public areas have all the warmth and vitality of ... the catacombs...

Hehehe. So true. Oakland. Last week. Zipping by on the bike. This is the block beyond the renovated and recently re-opened Fox Theater. ('It's still 1954... right?') Chinatown had/has its chance to expand--over the Pike and into the Herald's area, as well as over the X-way/Artery into...

AP IMPACT: Some nonprofits can't touch their money By MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press Writer, Sunday March 1, 2009 "It's a frustrating quandary for universities, orchestras and other nonprofit organizations in two dozen states. They have the money they need to save jobs, offer scholarships...

^WGU's? WTF? :p Wasn't always that way, though. An old-world, agricultural, rural model, that was slow to change but forced to by rapidly expanding developments during the industrial revolution? As for the shopping issue, for starters, I should have clarified that I meant as a present...

Ha! I was just going to find a post where I could ask about this, and whine about it, too. I thought it was my ISP being woggy, or because of all the pics in some posts. However, nothing else I am using was loading that way. It seems that when more than 20 people are on here at a time--members...

Last week's message:

http://www.alamedainfo.com/Posey_Tube.htm The experience I had going through the tunnel/tube is common. I've read testimonials from people who commute through that tunnel five days a week! I don't know how/why they do it. It's torturous. Disgusting. A pain in ass. Their weekly clothes cleaning...

^ "Just because I'm in the arts, doesn't mean I want to be poor."

^ Realty offices are useful for some people. However, many of them scattered along a few commercial blocks is kind of absurd, temporary supply and demand arguments aside. (Kind of like how I feel about Auto Rows. That argument is for another thread.) Impatience ablarc? :confused: Must be...

Aw! I was hoping for something racist. :eek: As to why he says Boston has lost its dynamism (because of big buildings?!), and why you ... we ...okay, I think it has are two very different things. Therefore, this justification from his point of view is useless. Has to '...get back to sync...