Recent content by Stlin

According to Harvard's database, they only purchased the site in 2019. At least through 2022 Google street view imagery signage seems to indicate it to have been a plumbing supply house. https://harvardplanning.emuseum.com/sites/06304/6579-seattle-street

That's part of this half thats under construction; see Beelines progress photo below. I believe that's then going to be clad with the previously disassembled Winchell School facade, which is on the Blossom / Parkman corner. (As previously noted, the brick MGH professional building fronting...

I actually can't see how tariffs can significantly affect things like ice cream - certain imported foods that don't grow in the US like avocados or coffee sure, but dairy? International refrigerated transport is genuinely exceeding expensive, and there is a massive domestic surplus of the stuff...

Looking at the consultant RFQ, we now have some details on the Ts plan for new diesel locomotives. While they appear to have discarded the idea of multi-mode locomotives, the T appears set to buy a minimum of 10 new diesel locomotives over the next 7 years. If the T is looking for service proven...

To be fair, what you describe is the intended function of the system as per the 2013 specs which the CRRC cars are supposed to adhere to. Any issues therefore on the CRRC fleet is indeed odd. However, given that the same spec provides that the winning bidder is to provide new tags, its entirely...

I came across a new render: largely the same massing with fenestration updates, but at least appears to be red brick. https://www.mass.gov/info-details/quincy-justice-center

Its remarkable that that has survived so well on a wooden structure in New England for at least 50 years, the Lexington Trust Company having last existed in 1974. https://www.usbanklocations.com/lexington-trust-company-1579.shtml

Of the ones I can see though, I can excuse 2/3? Photo 1, that car is in the segment marked for right turns and waiting at a red light. Photo 2, the unloading truck, isn't excused, but photo 5? The tan and white cars are in marked meter spots, and that black car appears to have its reverse lights...

I mean, this is a narrower segment of the Charles to begin with, and it doesn't look too dissimilar from this street view? Its certainly idealistic, but I can see that pavilion being close enough for their purposes.

https://www.boston.gov/news/mayor-michelle-wu-announces-launch-late-night-food-truck-program Bumping the thread for a good idea, although I'm slightly concerned about the turnaround time - 4 days from announcement to application deadline, 6 to the lottery itself feels ... Suboptimal, but...

That thing is almost certainly a generator from a 1890s power plant, but I can't tell you where you could find one outdoors and seemingly disconnected in 1960s Boston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AMechanicville_Hydroelectric_Plant.jpg

This is less important for something like a traditional colo or the hyperscalers these days - those do just fine in places like Lowell or the inner belt as edge centers. It was admittedly much more important to be close when bandwidth was at a premium, but for this particular site it's a carrier...

Admittedly I work less on the telco and infrastructure side and more on the data side of the data center space, but New England generally isn't prime territory for data centers, so the lift in getting a new one approved is... Non-trivial. The 4 major factors people are looking for are land...

Edward Durell Stone was not necessarily the most creative architect when it came to high rises... The "look" of the ERC seems to have largely been sized down to create the Dubois Library at UMass, and sized up for the Aon Center in Chicago.

As someone with a professional cert in data center and telco design - This absolutely is a building designed for it, and no you cannot build it smaller. Everything about a data center is managing heat - servers can only be so close together because of the heat they generate, so you have spaced...