Recent content by JonFrum

All props for the money he gave to the BPL for their map division. Their web site is a great reference for map lovers, and especially for those of us who love Boston history. RIP.

Stockholm is known for its effort to keep housing 'affordable' - at least for those who are already there. It is also known for having probably the worst housing market in all of Europe. People from outside who get a job in Stockholm literally can't find housing in the city. For all intents and...

Re: A theoretical Grand Prix of Boston Sigh.... another person who knows where the future is going. I just turned 60, and I'm still waiting for my jet-pack. If you know the future. there is no shortage of people who will give you $100 million to tell them what it is. While I'm typing these...

It's that thinking that gave us Boston City Hall. "Bold" is a code word for "Let the architects go ape-shit satisfying their own egos as 'artistes.'

Muddy river, so called was never used for transportation. The title river is a misnomer, and may cause confusion. Muddy river is a very small drainage, and would have been better called a stream. Stony brook certainly drained a much larger area, and had a significantly larger flow. Both Muddy...

The Central Artery didn't 'cater to the car.' It catered to the need of the city to move people and freight in and out of the city. Unless you think cars drove themselves. Railroad lines didn't 'cater to the train,' did they?

Someone disagrees with you, so they should be shut down? Nice guy!

Well aren't you generous with other people's money! Is that you, Mumbles?

So if Boston wasn't Boston, would Boston be different from Boston?

There is an 'it should have been done better' thread running through the comments here. No amount of 'better' would have saved this mess. The swimming-pool-liner-blue background has been noted. Does it fit with the rest of the building? No. Do the curving lines of the design fit with the severe...

I blogged on this topic two years ago and got no responses (not surprising, as my blog gets few hits). While walking at Millenium Park in West Roxbury several years ago, I stumbled upon some construction trash that had been dumped along the Charles River when the location was the site of the...

What you're calling grating is also on the second floor, directly under the other one.

That quote doesn't respond to the question. You said this: " Some unknown years later, the lion was removed due to safety concerns regarding its weight." How do you know that the lion on the roof was removed due to safety concerns regarding its weight?

Are you afraid that a second thread on a single topic will rip the fabric of the space-time continuum?

Where did you get the claim that the lion was taken down because of its weight? I suspect that if each floor could hold the floors above it, the top floor could hold the lion without collapsing. Am I missing something here? That lion can't weight much more than 2-3 big fat guys. I would have...