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If things go forth as now proposed -- the Back Bay can soon have the kind of crane population density of the Seaport of the past couple of years The key distinction will be the tops of the cranes will be easy to see from the Cambridge side

XEC -- No all you need is follow the lead of Texas with respect to electricity production and then wait for the inevitable storm when you go 48 hours with no heat because there is no electricity They'll soon be fleeing DFW in droves based on what the new folks who moved from CA trying to escape...

what about the ones with the castellated and other variegated architectural fringes and such and of course MS Pru -- you can't possibly consider the tiara or crown as a flat roof

Random -- if you read the filing document -- it speaks extensively of compact aka tiny units [300 sq ft] there are some a mite larger and then a handful of 2br which probably could have a couple and a couple of kids especially when the kids are young I'm not really sure who is the expected...

Chrisbrat -- when you say " all but three or four highrises in the entire city have boring, flat roofs " -- are you including largish antenna structures? and of course what do you consider a "highrise" -- let's use the Emporis definition for Highrise "architectural height is between 35 and...

Shmessy Unless I missed it in the NPC the developer of Raffles is working with the BPDA to provide housing on Cortes as mentioned above I don't think the YW building is involved

a_tortoise -- that's an interesting idea of course going from an open space -- probably best used from May through November into a year round conditioned space requires a lot of technical issue to be addressed

Agreed It should be "Kind" to the North End -- but not necessarily does it have to look as if it was the Former Prince Spaghetti factory

BigPicture -- you are right about those points from what I understand -- There were some issues which arose between the plans and the implementation as well which in turn led to more demo and construction than reuse as originally intended There is also MIT's desire to not change the look too...

Arlington -- these are not just facadectomies -- there is a lot of the industrial strength of the buildings which has been retained Many of the kinds of companies to be housed in this complex will be installing machinery not just Gnurds and laptops for instance a company such as Commonwealth...

A lot of superb camera work: kudos to: DZH22 -- Friday Boston02124 -- Friday Stefal -- Saturday

Shmessy -- We really don't know about the "housing need" for Boston or Greater Boston --various planners without much real data have been projecting numbers of housing units which need to be built --- they seem extreme given past population data for the region However -- Because of COVID-19 -- A...

Shmessy -- You are wrong on this one ---- Everyone wants to be KSq the New KSq or a KSq knock-off or overflow place its the late-early 21st C version of: "Silicon-Alley," "Silicon Prairie," even "Silicon Sandbar" [aka Cape Cod] -- all of those were real names of districts and regions trying to...

Stick -- modern technology will soon allow the exterior of the structure to be a very big screen with the properties enabling the exterior to control light and heat flows as well as displace whatever you essentially want even up to full motion video The only problem right now is the material...

Randomwalk -- it is after all Newton on Rt-128 -- there have been industrial / office and now lab parks there for 60 plus years and for 60 years the site was mostly just a giant parking lot for the T Better a well organized modern "lab park" than just the usual hodgepodge of buildings from...

Charlie -- how do the Sydney towers in Central Place compare to the North Station development in Boston vis a vis footprint for the floors and total floor area? It's not all about just how a building looks or even how it scales by one dimension -- today there are a lot of parameters involved in...

You might be right about the non-HOV entrance As for the Atlantic Ave entrance / exit -- that is connected with expanding the parking garage for later phases of the project work just beginning:

Squidman -- the fopotprint of South Station the outdoor concourse and the train platforms is however changing The work which is currently underway is shortening the platforms and expanding the outdoor concourse as well as moving the doors between interior South Station and the currently open...

HelloBoston -- perhaps you weren't here yet or perhaps you don't remember This is the CLF's doing -- that parking garage is not accessible from the interstate -- only buses and similar vehicles can use the ramp from the interstate You could argue that it shouldn't be there to begin with -- but...

Vagabond -- last year was so bad for hotels in general and for Boston Hotels in particular [worst performance of all of the cities with a large number of hotel rooms] -- that in a marginal place like Riverside -- I'm sure that financing for a hotel is probably very hard On the other hand --...