Recent content by MjolnirMan

Do you if this is explicitly part of the design, or just a byproduct of being board-formed concrete? It does look tanner light a light wood than other, grayer board-form work I've seen.

You are exaggerating. There are also 3 Panera Breads (BWH, BCH, BIDMC).

For those interested, the updated gerbil tube and interior hallway schematic for Dana-Farber and Beth Israel West Campus (connecting to Children's and Brigham off-panel to the right):

They probably cut enough corners on the flooring that even with ACT, the 2nd floor renters will be hearing the chirp of car locks and slammed doors all day and night.

On 11/20 there was a BPDA presentation and that means we get a bunch of new info and pictures: And the project will include a number of local streetscape and park improvements: Most importantly, it has renders of the skybridge and tunnel. The Brookline Ave/DFCI part looks straightforward...

For the trio of Farber/Brigham/Children's, it works extraordinarily well and reflects that they are all very practically interconnected - since Farber doesn't (currently) have their own clinical staff, you have pediatric cancer patients and practitioners flowing back and forth to BCH and the...

Since the tubes span institutions and are usually behind security desks, I don't know if a fully contiguous map exists. And there are a few smaller networks that require a quick pop outside and the right credentials to reenter. Here's a map of Brigham's "Pike" corridor; you can enter at the...

It's almost painful to think about something like this that will never happen, but yes, despite being a fairly large-scale project, there could have been ways to do it. Marginal/Herald are fairly low traffic overnight, and sections of the Pike air rights could have been decked in such a way to...

Hei La Moon was similarly displaced from the 125 Lincoln St. garage (which, disappointingly, has yet to begin demolition, much less construction) and my understanding of the neighborhood consensus is the new location is an improvement. I agree that Chinatown Cafe is beloved and hopefully it can...

Some live webcams: https://facilities.brown.edu/projects/integrated-life-sciences/construction-cameras

Or perhaps the more modest massing shown for the proposed redevelopment down Marginal St. of Mass Pike Towers from the 2010 Chinatown Master Plan?

You mean something more like this kind of massing outlined for adjacent Mass Pike Parcel 23 in "A Civic Vision for Turnpike Air Rights in Boston" issued by Mayor Menino in the year 2000?

Baker Station. Hey, that's also kind of TFL

Living walking distance from Providence Station and working somewhere on the T in Boston/Cambridge is mainly doable, especially if you use the "express train" trick of taking Amtrak instead of the T. That difference turns a masochistic 2.5+ hour round-trip super-commute into one that's...