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It's going to be demolished. The fantasy of it being relocated is just wishing out loud.

One last Googie post. I would say that it was most definitely a culturally significant movement, so much of it's dynamic futurism migrated to so many different material things. It was as much a state of mind as it was a design language. Some examples that I absolutely love… this bowling alley...

Googie, and this bank is a modest example of it, was America at it's most exuberant and optimistic, it seemed almost nothing was impossible. The horror of WW2 was left behind and Americans got busy reinventing everything: cars, buildings, airplanes, furniture, interior design, graphic design...

I love mid-century design and this, a classic with a very rare in this area folded plate roof, will soon disappear. I understand that those who don't care for MCM will just shrug and I'm not going to chain myself to it and dare the bulldozer. The proposed housing is certainly the greater good...

That Big Burger...a googie diamond, just love it. No doubt it was demolished without the slightest hesitation. The mid-century history of Alewife is turning out to be quite interesting: a drive-in theater, Donuts Please, Big Burger, an amusement park. Guess Lanes and Games was the last of it...

It was only a matter of time, another mid-century gem goes down. It would be contextual and appropriate if a folded plate canopy was in some way designed into the front elevation.

The North Plaza park (where the skating rink operates) was recently renovated and dedicated to Henri Termeer, a Kendall Square pioneer and Genzyme exec. It's now called Henri A. Termeer Square. The existing mound that was bisected by a sidewalk and fountain had one of the halves removed and is...

A brief Alewife crawl... If you lived here you'd be inhaling these fumes by now. The long closed Bertucci's at the station. A gentle reminder that Alewife is a part of the People's Republik Another life science lab. Revival was an existing restaurant but now there is a Mothership brand which...

Charlie, I'm curious about where the screen was standing, what is there today? Trader Joe's approximately? Thanks.

Cambridge's first Universal playground under construction at Danehy Park https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/publicworksdepartment/Engineering/universaldesignplaygrounproject_12222020.pdf Design is based on this being the site of the long gone New England Brick Company. It's an...

75 Smith Place. Life science lab, demo underway. Plan doc http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=2275&Inline=True Randoms of the immediate ambiance And nothing says home like major power grid infrastructure for a neighbor.

The Finch. OK design but the facade really looks like plastic laminate/Formica. And Burger King for a next door neighbor.

Harvard miscellany 3 Swartz/Andover Divinity school reno.Center for Green Buildings and Cities. Couple years old now and weathering into place. Carpenter Center skateboard damage. Criminal.

O'Connell branch library in E Cambridge. Renovation of the small bit of open space in the front (accesibility ramp and new lighting.) It could have been basic but these are not just lights they are lanterns. And at night this will even be a bit magical, lamp of knowledge indeed. Before

Maybe it will be some kind of fine-mesh link fencing that provides privacy/protection and a view rather than something opaque.

Here is 2Life at 132 Chestnut Hill Ave, Brighton. This came out well.