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Below are links to the project portfolios for the lead architects for this building, AKA 350 Boylston. They are partners at Robert Stern. This will not be a cheap-looking building. Meghan McDermott https://www.ramsa.com/index.php/projects/108 Graham Wyatt...

The Irish Star needs a copy editor. the title of the article is greatly misleading. Using Google search, the last bit of news on this project was on August 3, 2023, and discussed at length up-thread.

Macy's announced yesterday it will close 150 stores over the next three years. Only one location publicly announced, and that is the Macy's at Union Square in San Francisco. Macy's owns the store, and is looking for a buyer for the property. Macy's told the San Francisco mayor's office about...

This thread is a great example of aB as a knowledge resource.

They've divided the building into five cubes, four with a specific programmatic focus, and the fifth, in the center, is called "Mixer".

I looked at the membership of the Conservancy Board. The chair is the former publisher of the Globe. Ted Landsmark is the Vice Chair. He is former President of Boston Architectural College, and now at Northeastern. The treasurer is a prominent Boston lawyer associated with a very prominent...

Engineer's assessment on the possible cause of the collapse. Includes video of the collapse as it occurred. Engineer's recent follow-up assessment on possible cause.

IMO, it was/is presumptuous and preposterous P. R. to even attempt equating these steps with the Spanish Steps. At the top of the Spanish Steps is the 16th Century church, Trinita dei Monti, and the associated 16th Century Villa Medici, and its associated gardens. The church, the villa, and...

The Shreve Crump & Lowe was never on the National Register. The building had no historic significance. The Youth's Companion building was the home of the largest circulation weekly magazine (500,000 copies) in the United States at the end on the 19th Century. It was listed on the National...

This building (the Youths Companion Building) is on the National Register of Historic Places. Would be very hard to re-develop. Same designation as the Arlington St. Church, Unlike Shreve Crump & Low, which was not even landmarked by the city of Boston.

Link is to is a checklist of how life sciences buildings differ from standard commercial office buildings. https://www.solutionsgc.com/10-key-features-of-next-generation-life-science-buildings/ Several excerpts

Indeed. Talk is cheap. But almost certainly the proposed stadium project site is included in her soon-to-be-released economic development package. The package will have a lengthy list of communities receiving money.. For Everett, and this particular site, the monies would probably be...

Missed one. of my screen grabs. No underpasses.

There was only a handful of slides. One for schedule, one for cost, and these. I don't think I missed any,, and I'll take a quick scroll through the deck again when I find time. I am not going to try interpreting the schematics. The City of Boston guy pronounced the Ruth in Rutherford as if...

From the presentation and discussion, proponents of each alternative were split roughly 50:50. And they had to make a call. There was mention of new high-frequency bus routes with Sullivan Square as the nexus. So perhaps they need surface space for queueing the buses? The presenter for the...

From the City of Boston's presentation to the Metropolitan Planning Agency, several points: Concept design (25 percent) is finished next month. Construction ($200 million) starts in 2027. The City has made the point with Encore that additional parking for the planned Encore expansion will be...

Note taken.

First reported in the NY Times, and today in the Globe. Backed by five billionaires. Image from NY Times is better. Image from Globe was taken at night. The name is derived from Teddy Roosevelt's speech in 1910 at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, titled, "Citizenship in a Republic"...

For the Salem Harbor generating plant (coal and oil were used as duel) the cost of remediation and demolition were estimated prior to the construction a natural gas powered generating plant. https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2016/08/uy/full-task-force-report.pdf My recollection is that the...

This is the project description. Apparently, no award was made for this project in calendar year 2023. (The Federal government is now in fiscal year 2024, which began October 1 2023.). Applications for the next round of awards were due this past October. I do not know whether Chelsea /...