Recent content by urbanmansprawler

I haven't followed closely enough, I'll take your word on it, and I'm sure the neighbors will be glad for it.

Thanks for all the photos, I've been eager to see how this one turned out. I have to wonder if, like the 'Walkie-Talkie Building' in London, the curve of the glass will focus the sun's rays in any one area like a magnifying glass.

I wonder if the end cap (poorly circled above) is going to be an LED display or fixed art or just...whatever this is?

The corner windows are the only (moderately) noteworthy thing about this design. It's a Kia sedan at heart: it functions as intended and nothing more.

It's hardly a fortress, gramps, take a deep breath, it's clearly mimicking the building on the other side of 7/11 and was aiming to be contextual more than another place to put a seldom-trafficked bank. Additionally...aren't you whining about Eastie all the way from the burbs?

A great deal of those towers have proven to be very expensive (to rent/own) and also very shoddy, to put it mildly. I'm for density, sure, but let's not seek to emulate such blatant greed-before-quality construction.

I hope this isn't a CQ property. CQ has four hotels going into foreclosure - including the CQ downtown - after they stopped making loan payments back in...yikes...2020. If the city has learnt anything, it's to avoid companies likely to leave holes in the ground and evaporate into bankruptcy/merger.

Why don't we all agree both towers are unremarkable in massing and style, promised far more by way of building amenities/local improvements than was produced, and Boston will likely tap MP for another one due to our fine city's deep, deep-seated love of design that doesn't spook the horses?

New cladding aside, this building looks better shorter. The proportions make more sense to my eye.

I'll see your 'warped sense of reality' and raise you a 'new reality'. Companies interested in full-time office experiences have begun to move south, and many more will do so once those long commercial leases are up. Those companies staying in the north have expressed very little interest in...

Respectfully, what year are you living in? Do you think a slide into a ball pit, or micro brews in a mini-fridge, will put the genie back into the bottle? I worked surrounded by that junk for years and as soon as I didn't have to show up anymore I, and everyone but the very junior and very...

I really like this. Contextual while maintaining a distinct profile, with detailing that breaks up what might otherwise be a sea of brick, this blends into the neighborhood while quietly presiding over a prominent corner. More of this, please.

The winning bid could come from one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eaters, I still can't see anything near as grand what's shown actually going in. Now a collection of bland 3-over-2 boxes with a few hundred $2k/month apartments...

The answer is very carefully, and rarely. If One Dalton's windows look like garbage most of the time, and they have an easy set up for washing windows, I see these silly vanity projects with their needless fenestration (Harvard's science landscraper sings the same tune) as beyond hope of regular...

Me thinks you all complain too much. Seriously, can the prattle about what makes a neighborhood be moved off the main thread?