Recent content by GIL

The bus station isn’t moving and that is busy with tons of riders from Boston, Central and Coastal Maine — and the rail station moving should mean the bus station wouldn’t need to add more parking to accommodate future growth any time soon, so it is still well-positioned to be a transit-oriented...

Or A cornice — this one looks like a drip edge. Totally agree this looks like those cheap mid-century apartment buildings across Eastern Mass. If a design is this simple, it needs great materials and proportions. This design does not (yet?).

Nice work! Looking back to compare this against the initial rendering, it does appear that the new building will run from end-to-end of the site along Washington Ave, and there’s a four-story section at the southern end of the lot (likely to allow a view-shed to the related Redfern townhouses...

Exciting to see the concept and massing proposed! I hope that, as it evolves, the facades get more texture and some variation in pattern. In this image, the left side (facing the park) looks most satisfying: The windows appear more closely spaced, their rhythm broken up to align with the...

The undulating facade of this big project in a low-rise neighborhood, combined with the materials, made me wonder again what might be in store for 165 Washington. :cool: A New Building Aims to Be a Good Neighbor in Low-Rise Neighborhood

Where could we see the renderings, please?

That is hardly a justification for eight lanes.

Can we please get a transit-design team from another first-world country to consult or just design this for the MDOT, who clearly do not understand or have any demonstrated expertise in transit design? Also, can the Governor's office and the Mayor's office please insist that the Pike be...

Might the Alfonds?

I’d say directionally this is headed in the right direction, certainly — understanding these are just early steps along a long path ahead. MDOT has introduced some more pedestrianized design solutions in “village/downtown zones” recently, and hopefully they’ll so so here too (especially). I also...

Yes, Mori and her husband have had a house on an island in midcoast Maine for nearly 40 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/t-magazine/toshiko-mori.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

That team made a meaningful gesture toward recognizing and incorporating the facade of the contributing structure within the expansion and the team lead is a long-time Maine resident, so yes, I still find the choice by the PMA surprising.

But it’s not a binary choice: historic or extraordinary. Something extraordinary can *incorporate* history, rather than plowing it under to replace it. The Museum, unexpectedly, is making a binary choice.

The PMA received a proposal from a world-class architect-cum-Maine resident. Their proposal incorporated the Fore Street building into its solution and yet they dismissed the proposal. So, yes, the PMA made the disasterous situation they only now are beginning to recognize they are in. There was...

Agree and wish that 100 Fore Street had been designed to help activate that block as well. I’m sure the strange zoning rules for that block had best intentions, but the outcome looks like the top/back of a parking garage where some retail 2- to 4-story facade would help define and add energy...