Recent content by Hufer

A "Park"? If anything, that locations was begging for an ambitious development matching the adjacent building's height at minimum.... is it perhaps a deal made in order to attempt the more ambitious plan..? (getting rid of the entire block for a brand new development ala North Quincy's The Abby)

The 126 Granite street project will definitely be a truly nice upgrade to Quincy Center. (y)

So the "crack/fracture" around a quarter of the building's height is the Go-To feature nowadays... :unsure:

because why lose such profitable square footage in terraces & open spaces with landscape, right? - also the facade's glazing pattern/configuration is different.......

So seems like the design has been "dumbed down"..? whatever...

I'm surprised by the approval of such massive project, given how Newton is quite "conservative" about preserving identity & cohesiveness. I guess all that goes away when the promise of "property tax collection" appears quite attractive to the city coffers...

So, some Renzo Piano Knock-up abomination is the new way to design Museum buildings in Boston ......... Why? Just call him up and have him doing it proper FGS.....

quite familiar with the area since I've done projects nearby. I welcome it

As some folks already mentioned, I gather in saying there is no value in preserving those Tanks at all, just for the sake of imitating/applying a solution done overseas that provably had different historic context. My main concern is all about the site CLEAN UP & PREP for the new use, given its...

Multi-family blocks with retail at the street level can be combined to create more dynamic residential areas ( 5 to 1 ratio) The only rationale for having such large areas for High-tech & Labs use is based on having a very large corporation already on board-otherwise seems extreme &...

extremely wealthy investors that happen to have ownership in other sports & entertainment capital ventures get to build those stadiums for their own private benefits by LEASING THEM for other venues, IOW those stand-alone soccer specific structures aren't soccer-specific that much ;) BTW...

thanks for the info. (y)

Nowadays Stadium infrastructure cannot survive as isolated islands or "white elephant monuments"- either those structures are meant to be designed for multi-purpose venues that can be used all year round, or have additional commercial, assembly, even residential (hotel) components incorporated...

Can't help but thinking what kind of "science" is going to be practiced inside that building, when its street level resembles a military installation or a bunker. :rolleyes:

that's solving "half of the problem" since the other traffic bottleneck happens a few yards away when Willard St. meets the rotary.....