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    Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex | Cambridge

    Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex I'm a Harvard Law School employee and took an interior tour of the building today (Monday, March 21). I think the inside will ultimately be more impressive than the exterior. Being a law school, there was a list of rules prior to the tour...
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    Where am I? The photo contest

    Mass General Hospital along Charles Street (adjacent to Storrow Drive) and near the corner of Blossom Street?
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    817 Albany Street (BUMC Dorm) | South End

    "The 84,000-square-foot? high-rise planned for 817 Albany Street..." This is what's considered a high-rise in the city? Boston's in trouble.
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    Where am I? The photo contest

    Close, Ron. It's actually standing in front of Strada234...at the intersection of Causeway and Medford Street. Essentially the other side of the North End by the Bulfinch Triangle. Edit: Ledjes got it right! Here's another: Note, despite the references, this is NOT at the the Granary Burying...
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    Where am I? The photo contest

    ICA stairwell is correct. The other shot is NOT Fort Point Channel, though
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    Where am I? The photo contest

    OOH, that worked. Here's another one inside a prominent building.
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    Where am I? The photo contest

    I've never posted a pic before, so hopefully this works:
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    11-21 Bromfield Street | DTX | Downtown

    Re: 28-story tower planned for Downtown Crossing I don't know how to post photos...but here's an example from my trip to Kyoto, showing a street that was turned pedestrian and had a roof added to enclose it. http://picasaweb.google.com/snarl71/KyotoAndOsakaJapan#5216274224708431410 This...
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    Hancock Plaza: the future Glass Garden

    This just shows what a bullshit response it was when Hancock's owners closed the observation deck for security reasons after 9/11. If their fear is terrorism, a bomb on the top floor of the building would blow out the roof and damage a few of the top floors (and possibly the counter-weight...
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    Copley Place Expansion and Tower | Back Bay

    Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower Regarding condo fees: I've lived in hi-rises before. One building was 100% market rate. Units on the higher floors did pay more for condo fees per square foot for an identical unit (since most hi-rises have identical floor plates on almost every...
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    Silver Line - Phase III / BRT in Boston

    Re: Silver Line Phase III While Boston is having so much trouble figuring out how to achieve a continuous route from the western part of the city to the eastern part of the city (Silver Line, Phase 3) I just read this article about London adding a second line to it's transit system to also...
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    Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District

    Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Yep, Stellarfun, that is exactly the runway I was talking about. Based on the scale listed in the Globe graphic (which conceivably could be inaccurate), and utilizing my ultra high-tech FAA skills of holding a ruler against my computer screen...
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    Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District

    Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Did anybody see the graphic that went along with this article in the Boston Globe? It shows a map of Boston (with Logan) and pinpoints exactly where Boston's tallest buildings are located campared to the runways. This building is nowhere near...
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    Pop quiz everybody!

    There's actually a website you can visit to figure out how many transit systems you've ever used: http://metro.b3co.com/ My transit riding history puts me on 20 of them.
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    Charlestown Bridge Walkway

    Westy - I'm in no way defending the residents of Strada234, but as a former condo owner there, I did want to mention that when the building became luxury condos, the developer's broker (Otis and Ahearn) was assuring buyers that the Lovejoy Wharf buildings could NOT be expanded upon (in height)...

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