Recent content by Tom Nevers

Some construction update photos I took earlier today.

No, everyone was friendly. If you’re not part of a tour or in a souvenir shop, I’m not sure how anyone would know you are a tourist. The city struck me as being very international.

A few photos of Barcelona I’ve taken over the past week. Great city for walking tho the buses and trains have been helpful and pleasantly air conditioned.

I’m curious about this stat. I found an article from 10/24 that puts the number of “multilingual learners” in Portland at 2000. It doesn’t specify whether that’s k-8 or k-12 or even k through college but let’s pretend it’s k-8...

Walked the newly opened Christian to Crescent portion of the Schuylkill River Trail today. A little info about this section of trail from the website, “This is the newest trail section and fills a 2,812-foot gap in the five-county Schuylkill River Trail. It features a 650-foot cable-stay...

There’s an impressive overhaul of State St. occurring and it’s detailed in this video. Massive bike/ped improvements are on the way!

Making strong progress and I’m looking forward to completion because the walking/bike path remains closed and they put minimal effort into the detour.

I also hope it is constructed as proposed. Not because I love the sun hat but because it’s inoffensive while still being distinctive. Can’t recall seeing something atop a building quite like that. Also, your lowest common denominator comment reminded me of this- I can only assume that’s how...

A few construction update photos of the Landing on the Levee and the Saco Harborside at Factory Island townhomes. Big fan of the brick facade on the front of the taller building to the left in the first image below and the contrasting dark green panels on the sides. @TC_zoid Construction has...

A few shots while biking around the 195 Innovation & Design District. Newer building on Traverse St. and a building under construction next to it: Brown’s life sciences lab building: A spot in the District that’s feeling urban and complete:

Biked the East Bay Bike Path today then cruised around downtown Providence. Love all the buffered bike lanes downtown but many of the plastic bollards are ready to be replaced. RIDOT has done a commendable job of creating safe, bike/ped friendly detours in Warren for trail users while two...

The rounded corner is popular in Portsmouth. Nice decorative brick work on the facade of the building under construction in the first photo. The parking garage in the second photo is now open and shockingly cheap, only $1 an hour. Photos taken this past weekend.

New construction in Portsmouth is consistently well designed. They’ve seen steady residential and commercial development for several years now. New buildings in Providence tend to resemble more of what we see in Portland but there are some cool projects in the pipeline such as these: Post in...

If it this building, based on the renderings in cneal’s post, it could make for a cool facadectomy as they appear to be planning a brick facade for the bottom two stories. Some design elements in the rendering, like the quoins and belt course along Preble, are featured in the existing building...

Very excited to learn that Design Center Partners was selected to develop parcel 5. Really hope this one comes to fruition.