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Stellar -- interesting point Obviously the Post Editorial Board approved the piece -- so it at least had Bezos' tacit approval Big unstated aspect is all of the other Amazon footprint not directly connected to the 2nd HQ complex and their impact on the non-office real estate market I presume...

Gameguy -- as they say "it complicated" Anything on the MIT campus or on its edge is certainly governed by one set of rules -- principally does it meet MIT's internal needs over the long-haul [MIT builds on the campus for a 50 year or more time frame -- the main "tute" having just crested 100...

Stick -- you do know the history of the tower It was supposed to have a grand staircase [pre ADA] much like the adjacent Charles Bulfinch designed County Courthouse Corruption of various forms caused the project to balloon by about a factor of 7 and eventually even the notoriously corrupt...

Gameguy -- unless this building is somehow special -- and since its not specialized lab space -- just general R&D/office --- it has to work hard to make it desirable The brutalist features are all net negatives except for some mid 20C architectural purists as the website says [with my bolded...

Jahvon works for Frank Gehry with the Ray and Maria Stata Center of MIT of course you can say - -well those are steel columns and concrete is lousy in shear or tension -- au contraire Those of the Stata Center are concrete as well The key is to put enough stress in to the column by pre...

Equilibria -- 9/11 also was a transient -- if you needed to travel by 12/11 -- things were pretty much back to normal [with the TSA additions and effects on the routine of course] COVID-19 is now working on one year of disruption and revision to how business is done and it's likely that routine...

Navigator -- technology for: Zoom, Meeting, Skype, Teams, Microsoft Whiteboard, etc. barely existed in the post 9/11 era Today, nearly everyone in business has a boatload of experience with the "virtual meeting" and while it doesn't do everything that a physical meeting can -- it can...

JumboBuc -- there is only the barest hint of the the Big Honking Windmill -- hidden in the lower right of only one of the renders and no pix show the Mystic Generating Station -- which even if closed would still be there for many years because of the location of the major substation

Rover -- No the Old Kendall of my MIT undergrad days was mostly a lot of open fields from Tech Square to the existing Volpe Building [Broadway & 3rd] and the Badger Building [Main and 3rd] and back to what is now Galileo Way Starting in 1979 Boston Properties began to build what until recently...

Golden Retrievers -- anything post the Tower completion [i.e. stuff in Yellow and Green in the last pic above] is I'd say fairly speculative at this point

Or perhaps Vegas

Jahvon The main tower has a concrete core and there definitely is steel framing involved with the "Great Hall" so -- you get a kind of mixed message from David Z, on the Winthrop Sq side -- it looks like a concrete Tower [concrete floors and concrete posts] just as Millennium Tower there...

DZH -- my post was really what you see in a "Back Bay Optic" -- in that if you stand on the Cambridge side centered on the Main MIT dome you are looking directly at "Back Bay" essentially centered on 200 Clarendon -- but your view [or a wide open camera lens image] covers the sweep from the...

Blackbird Bio / Pharma has displaced generic tech in the sector of Rt-128 from from Lexington through Waltham there are a few smaller outposts in other sectors -- but not much has moved in near to the Pike or further south When the Hobbs Brook spec lab/office complex is completed [500k sq...

Let's stop grousing about the Hub at North Station -- while by no means perfect at least its not another odious O'Neil Federal Building

Bananarama -- You're missing the point -- its all about having a unique identity or else you are just trying to copy something to fool who??? We started it all here with Rt-128 aka America's Technology Highway [later region] with Raytheon, DEC, Analog Devices -- all built factories Silicon...

What they could do is make like Washington Street in DTX -- make the whole area between Cross St and the hotel entrance a pedestrian zone except for the loading and unloading of passengers just stick two lines of bollards close enough together to block any vehicle except for the most intrepid...

This could start a trend: Thanks to the Puritan's penchant for starting up local government as soon as enough settlers settled to have a preacher and school master -- Greater Boston is fragmented government-wise This fragmentation makes it very hard for developers to assemble large tracts of...

Jklo -- actually these days a lot of bio is soft-lab mostly something which could be done in a software development place just look at what Moderna did with their transformation into one of the premier vaccine development companies -- its all done by automating the design of the RNA for the...

Blackbird -- Shire is completely gone -- it merged into Takeda and they now have a huge operation in Lexington on the corner of Rt-2 and Rt-128 [the old Raytheon HQ site for the old timers amongst us] with land available for further growth very unlikely that Takeda they will expand to Riverside...