Recent content by TC_zoid

I like how it has no benches, or that long one that is perhaps too narrow to spread out on. You don't want a pocket homeless addiction park, of which is a real possibility now.

Thank you for posting this brave picture. If you go to Google Street view images from this location appear that aren't much different. I'd copy the recent NY Times article and post it as a slide show, but I don't want to make everyone in our blog cry. There is seriously failed leadership in...

Interestingly, Kaplan Thompson has built the best designed and thought-out affordable housing in Portland (and South Portland with the adjoining 5 story structures just south of the Jetport). And on the flip side to that, builds homes for the rich in Maine, NH, and MA. Their designs and Green...

Developing all of these empty lots for building towers with mostly affordable housing is going to destroy or inhibit whatever Bayside could become for improvement. I like the master planning here (see below image) from the city of Lewiston allowing Kaplan Thompson to kind of take over. I think...

Yes, it's when new people come into a neighborhood and buy homes. They care more.

I do not have confidence in the city to handle this. Please, please call Redfern and let them COMPLETELY take over. Reveler would be another good choice. The city has allowed parts of the downtown to fall into a de facto dystopia. It is capable of passing on control of these lots to an entity or...

If someone had sent me a picture of this building before I knew what it was, I would have asked, are they taking it down? Where is it? Flint, MI? Toledo? Jackson, Mississippi? But really, Cambridge at Harvard? How does this happen?

My alma mater, Thornton Academy and its new fieldhouse progress. It will have a 2nd level running track (nice). I realize the school has over 300 foreign students, and with its latest Instagram marketing, are they back to a focus on Chinese students? I checked into the cost last year for a...

New digs at Hadlock... ($10 million for a small building with only one tiny window!) https://www.mainebiz.biz/article/portland-sea-dogs-step-up-to-the-plate-with-new-10m-clubhouse

I prefer to fly in and out of Boston. Even with the added cost and another leg with Concord Coach, it's usually cheaper and definitely more convenient with flight time choices than PWM. And forget the connecting flight idea. I NEVER do that now. It's mostly Vegas, Houston, NYC, and LA for me...

Continuing… Pfeiffer (LA) and Perkins Eastman (NYC), then Elkus Manfredi (Boston) for USM Crewe Center and student center, dorm builds. And Roux will get international acclaim. Perhaps the Crewe too. Portland is or will no longer be a little and insignificant place.

Watching the game on ESPN+ at the moment. Everything looks great but… The rec dept has now ruined the integrity of the new soccer field by mandating its high school football field lines. I guess that was the deal. It really does distract and take away with the television viewing experience.

Play the video. Much better! I kept screaming and screaming about not defacing the perfectly fine Cobb building and apparently they heard me--no more hole. And I like the "7" set within the old entrance. But we have one big error though. They have the sun setting in the southeast! They gotta fix...

One of the best written architectural reviews of a building in Maine that I've read. He won't be around for long, or until he's seduced by a much larger and nationally based paper. I don't see why so many on this blog are adverse to paying $10 monthly for a subscription to the PPH. It's won many...

Originally, or before the neighbors threatened a big fight, the building was supposed to be twice this height. And the residential was also tall at maybe 14 stories. What a YIMBY beast and success that would have been.