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In a nutshell, this project proposes to replace an old parking garage with a new housing development that is literally at the doorstep of an MBTA station (this proposal would add a secondary pedestrian entrance to the Fenway D line station) and is located a mere 0.1 mile walk from a Green Line C...

I think the MBTA was the problem child here. The MBTA submitted comments to the City expressing concerns about the lack of a setback between the proposed building and the MBTA's Fenway station. No side setback is required under the zoning but the MBTA requested one of at least 20-feet. From...

I do not understand the offsetting windows thing. Is it supposed to be playful or add something to the design? It just gives me a headache.

As awood91 noted, the brown trim and green undertones does give this building, at least to me, a retro late 70s/early 80s kind of feel. From certain perspectives, particularly from World Trade Center Av, the inverted pyramid nature of the building does give it an imposing presence. I think it...

This building and Eli Lily add a bit more of a building presence to the Seaport side of the Chanel -

Took a couple strolls through Cambridge Crossing this week, day and night, and snapped some pics and jotted down a few thoughts. It’s amazing how quickly - relatively speaking- this has been built up (see site in 2017 here). I have to say that walking through during the day I felt a bit like I...

These are not NIMBYs. These are BANANAs. NIMBYs, on occasion, have a point. There is no real rational reason to oppose this. This is a mostly empty surface parking lot at a mall near a major highway interchange. If anything, this will improve the neighborhood character.

Essentially they are redeveloping three office lots, all which house individual 1970s-80s era office buildings, and proposing to merge the properties and redevelop into this. The other surface parking serves office buildings further down the road. If you reserve 30 spaces for the commercial...

Agree with the sentiment, but in a lot of these towns, it's not so much NIMBYism, but just pure anti-housing sentiment. Take Foxboro, for example, they are happy to have a hundred crappy sprawling commercial developments along Route 1, but voted down housing on a single parcel there. And Route 1...

There really needs to be some sort of a rational or quantitative standard at to what qualifies as a 'neighborhood.' It's a term that is thrown around way too much by NIMBYs in reference to any geographic area.

Also, that little structure in the middle of the channel that is about to fall into the harbor kills me every time I'm over that way. Either fix it up or take it down, but the current plan of 'wait for it to collapse on to some unwitting party boat' doesn't seem like the wisest path...

Some golden hours shots from this past weekend —

In this case, if this is the approved architectural plan, I would definitely prefer the exhibitionist/translucent glass walls to the darker opaque windows that are popping up in other developments.

9/29/2024

The bridge over Seaport Blvd. is very well illuminated (in purple) —

The height doesn’t bother me, but I’m all for preserving as much of the existing building facades as possible and incorporating them into the development. In almost every case, new facades are less interesting than what they replace ( see 334-364 Boylston). That would be a reasonable concession...

From this past weekend. Not a bad sunset from up here —

For me, it’s not so much the view of the Pike, but the idea of reclaiming the space. Before, it was just this vast void in an otherwise pretty hopping part of town. Now you can enjoy a semi-public space suspended above the Pike. The void is gone and the two sides of the Pike are stitched back...

A few photos from early September —

The MBTA is planning accessibility improvements to the three CR stations in Newton. But the T has been advertising this planning effort since at least 2019, so I'm not sure how actively it is actually being pursued. If Newtonville station requires significant investment anyway, would it make...