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Friday, Nov. 24

I just got back from the BRA. They had a sort of skeleton crew on today - almost all the offices were empty. I went to the "viewing room," but there was no binder for 115 Winthrop Square. But when I asked about the project, they gave me the proposal to look at (again, no copies of photos...

Looks a lot like Piano's New York Times tower. It's roughly the same height too, although this tower looks slimmer, at least from this angle.

Wow, how anticlimactic.

On the Renzo Piano website (http://www.rpbw.com/) in the "All Projects" section, there is an interactive world map showing locations. If you zoom onto the U.S. there are dots for each of the cities in which they've done a project. If you scroll over a city-dot, a little box comes up with the...

I was hoping that once the proposals are in, some of the firms would post their designs on their own websites. Firms often post stuff they've submitted for competitions, even when they didn't win. And they've presumable spent a lot of time and energy drawing up all the renderings that RFP...

When Tobin is elected mayor, there's a good chance he'll try to make this happen. I think he's in a pretty good position to succeed Menino.

10 days!

Only 3 weeks until submissions are due!

Xec, thanks for all these pics.

Bova's in the North End, a pastry place, is open all night.

But women like big men, don't they? If you look at personal ads on craigslist, I think the number one physical attribute listed by women is = TALL. So women do like SOME big things.

Who is the architect of that rendering? And what happened to Menino's "no flat top" rule for new skyscrapers?

Why don't you guys read Chomsky's book "Hegemony or Survival" (the one Chavez referenced at the beginning of his speech at the UN) and consider the reasons why Chavez, and millions of people all over the world, think the system Bush represents is not a very just and enlightened one?

I agree. This seems like a pipe dream to me. However, there are certainly several buildings on this block that aren't really that distinguished, and at least one which was in pretty bad shape the last time I looked. Anyone have a fairly current picture of this block - the south side of...

Is there a vacant lot at this location, or is the plan to convert that former Shreve building on the corner?

I also like the idea of a grass-covered, man-made hill. There is one of these in Amsterdam, on one corner of the Museumplein, which is a large park/field surrounded by a bunch of cultural institutions, over a big underground parking garage. Here is a picture of the Museumplein. The man-made...

I could be wrong, but I seem to remember the renderings for both the YMCA building and the Boston museum building not including sidewalks on all sides of the buildings.

I hope the YMCA, and the other proposed ramp parcel buildings, do not go through. In my opinion, they all do a terrible job of doing what they're supposed to do - i.e. cover and hide the ramps, and provide some level of cross-artery activity. Part of the problem is that on at least two of...

Yeah, I guess they must mean the West End. It's one of those "big lies" - say it loud enough, and maybe people will believe it.