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This looked dicey for awhile but it's turning out pretty well.

Chester and Cross

The Commons at Prospect Hill, McGrath Highway living at its finest

180 Third Ave by Stantec Stylish, sexy life science. It can be done, please take note Elkus.

Elmwood St, at Trolley Sq on the community path. 34 units. https://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/Files/CDD/ZoningDevel/SpecialPermits/sp308/sp308_revisedplans_20160523.pdf?la=en

Mayflower Poultry (Live Chickens Fresh Killed) block renovation into don't know what. https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/historicalcommission/pdf/chcmeetingfiles/case4631_plans.pdf 152 Charles St Garage demolition and new addition. Included are some typical reactionary comments...

Bay State Rd. Demolition of a rare International style house from 1948 for 6 townhouses. https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/historicalcommission/pdf/chcmeetingfiles/D1596_plans.pdf

Former American Friends Service Committee on Mass Ave. Moving the building closer to the sidewalk and an addition, looks good. https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/historicalcommission/pdf/chcmeetingfiles/D1595_plans.pdf

The left half of the current building is the S&S. The right half is a Home Goods and something else which will become the footprint for the life science. So the right half of the current building will be demolished in 2022 leaving the S&S half standing until the new store is done.

Elkus can pull it off in non-lab work (Alcott, new BU theater) but their labs more often than not are uninspired lumps (see most everything they've done in K square). Also they seem to have a limited number of rabbits they are able to pull out of their bag of design tricks. The yellow trusses...

Public Safety building...design malpractice, more incoherent than not.

Handsome. The triangular projections lifting off the facade are a creative, unique detail giving this some welcome distinction.

What from the outside during the day looks like the second and third floors is actually a double-height second floor the whole width from JFK St to Brattle. Same with the corner section where Curious George used to be.

They had it right the first time: sleek, elegant, no gimmicks. The roof mechs are poorly configured, no connection with the rest of the building at all (like at Vertex in the Seaport). The facade has gone from a smooth skin grid to the industrial girder look that is already dangerously close to...

EMF, former electric supply company founded in 1921. For a decade it was home to an artist/musician collective that was evicted 3 years ago. They did not go quietly into the night, they made a lot of noise condemning the "greedy" developer's callous disregard for an arts community. City of...