Recent content by nova617

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) I LOVE this photo. Awesome work!

Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Ad hominem attacks do not comprise an argument.

Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 (restaurants in SF are better, i meant to say)

Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 I'm not sure how someone can realistically compare SF and Boston. I consider the entire Bay Area to be metropolitan San Francisco...more than 7,000,000 people. The sophistication and cultural amenities of SF are world-famous as well as the...

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) I was kidding...I liked and agreed with your post though. From an architectural, aesthetic, and urbanistic standpoint, the neighborhood is already an abomination and a carelessly aborted opportunity for Boston to attempt to show the world that we can...

Re: Gardner Museum to undertake $60 million expansion The way that Hawley and the Board are framing it is "putting one foot in the future in order to keep one planted firmly in the past." Hawley has had great success in her 19 (?) year tenure in appealing to the populist sentiments of the...

Re: Gardner Museum to undertake $60 million expansion Ideally, every work of art would be stored in airtight, lightless conditions to guarantee their preservation forever. Unfortunately, preservation (the primary mission of any such collection) costs money, so we have to charge the hoi polloi...

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) State Street, Intercontinental, Russia Wharf, the Courthouse, and Fan Pier fill out their section of the skyline well! Now we just have to wait 75 years for Fan Pier to evolve into a neighborhood.

Re: Gardner Museum to undertake $60 million expansion I agree with lexicon506. While the MFA, ICA, and Gardner projects are all controversial, generally at least they are indicative of a renewed vitality in Boston's visual cultural scene. As to Gardner's will, that can of worms was opened...

Re: Fenway Center (One Kenmore, Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) And here I was, thinking that Ned had finally cultivated a social life...

Re: One Bromfield (28-story tower @ DTX) "In a letter to BRA director John Palmieri, attorneys for the Abbey Group said they are concerned that the 407,000-square-foot apartment building with 50,000 square feet of retail ?is more than the site can handle.?" Translation: "We fear that nearby...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Nooo, why would we want to become a global cultural and economic capital...one of the best-known and most instantly-reconizable cities on the planet?! I can't imagine...ask Ned.

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) But but but think of the shadows!!! The wind tunnels!!! The traffic!!! With this trio of terror, I can't imagine how such a city would survive! Whatever city this is, it must be totally undesirable and unlivable, with an insufferable quality of...

Re: Columbus Center My amigo from out of town asked why Boston is so hated by so many. Then I showed him Ned's posts, and he understood.

Re: Columbus Center Wow, he's REALLY still forcing it. This Rainman still has yet to find anything better to do with his life. Sad, really...