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Bigpicture -- I suspect that there could be EPA-type issues involved with a site which has had buses hanging around for well over 50 years the other matter is that obviously its "close" in the neighborhood context of the old Middlesex Court House -- that project will probably need to be done and...

Exactly -- I bet if you went and tried to source even 12" thick steel plate these days -- you would find no takers that was the kind of plate used for WWII battleship armor -- I doubt that there has ever been a commercially available 3 foot thick steel plate except in the form of an ingot which...

shmessy -- During the daytime -- Glass on the outside of a building is only interesting in the context of what you can see reflected from it -- and that depends on the ambient lighting and the surroundings as well as the angle from which you are seeing whatever A lot of glass buildings in Boston...

Henry -- you are of course right on both points Northpoint aka Cambridge Crossing is closest to Le Courbousier's plans in Paris -- or perhaps how La Défense has evolved

DZH -- never got a chance to say it -- but your Verizon with the brick foreground [circa Dec 30] is one of the best "juxtaposing old and new Boston" which has been exhibited on AB in quite a while (y)

JavaK -- I liked the original proposal for this redo of a massive miss circa 2000 and then again a bit later But as to your comment on Rt-128 -- I think you have to admit that your statement is on the very generalized side. If I was to have to work in the Boston Tech Center Redevelopment @...

Henry -- not to digress too too much here -- but Paris would not be the place we all admire without the the open spaces created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Préfet de la Seine, aka Baron Haussmann He opened up the Souk-like Medieval Paris to the 19th C of photos, film and of course paintings...

Jeff -- perhaps its that the steel framework is always way ahead of the rest of the building -- so that your imagination has more reign Concrete essentially [with the exception of cores] is unveiled from the forms -- fully formed just missing the outer cladding Or perhaps its just that we have...

HarvardP -- much of what you will see here in AB is about context and precedence You need to look at the history of suburban office parks in Greater Boston which were derived from suburban industrial parks in Greater Boston -- essentially where they began: Industrial Parks began when the...

Vivanna -- Yes --but while it has a roof its not an indoor space so the comparison is not really relevant As an aside -- if you are calling it Blue Hills -- you might as well call it what it is now called Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion It's probably had more names than any recent structure in...

BigPicture -- You need to give Cambridge Crossing a bit of time When the first round of construction has been around for a while and people have made accommodations and adaptations then we can start to judge the urbanity The key to anything urban is time -- as they say Rome wasn't built in a...

Symphony Hall is about the same size as the Orpheum -- and I think that it has much better support facilities than the Orpheum ever since the Cohen Wing was acquired and redeveloped 2,625 people

Actually according to the Census estimate for 2019 New Haven is about 12% bigger than Cambridge by Population and substantially bigger in land and total area New Haven CT Population: 130,331 (2019) Area [land] 18.69 sq mi Cambridge MA Population 116,632 (2019) Area Land 6.39 sq mi By the...

Someone must have given the architect a Frank Gehry coffee table book for the Winter Solstice

Suffolk Downs is so early in its evolution that connectivity will undoubtedly evolve over the next few decades You have to view these totally in a different context -- Suffolk Downs today is like the South Boston Seaport was about 50 years ago -- there is virtually a blank slate Harbor Point...

No of course not in detail -- but fundamentally -- yes I have several times in building decks raised quite high above the surroundings On the other hand my tools and expertise involved with fabricating steel is extremely limited -- essentially to things which I can hold in my hands and as I...

I'm not so sure Boston Properties is after all a Boston Company with a Global Footprint -- they just might want to take the Pru complex the last step as the original permitting gives the Pru great freedom which very few other sites in Boston have Specifically: There is nothing about filled...

Full disclosure -- Yea!! 😜 I can pour concrete into wooden forms and make concrete pads and walls -- climbing out on a steel girder with not a whole lot below to affix it to a vertical -- that's a different level of excitement -- a bit like watching someone run on a track or in a field...

Update from MIT on the new building https://news.mit.edu/2021/design-progresses-mit-schwarzman-college-computing-building-vassar-street-0126 Design progresses for MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building on Vassar Street New building will create a hub for computing research and education at...

One thing is that we'll be seeing proposals soon -- Mahty is leaving [most likely] and the developers will want to get things underway before the outcome of the next election