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All members are encouraged to nominate a Boston area building development completed in 2020 that they believe is deserving of special recognition for its positive impact on the built environment.

All members are encouraged to nominate an active proposal for a building site in the Boston area that is not yet under construction that they believe would make the built environment demonstrably worse than what is currently on the site or in the neighborhood.

All members are encouraged to nominate an active proposal for a building site in the Boston area that is not yet under construction that they believe could make the biggest positive impact on the built environment.

Members are encouraged to nominate an existing building, park or other piece of infrastructure in the Boston area that they believe diminishes the urban or built environment. Nominate features that have attributes that, in your opinion, should not be replicated and should serve as a model for...

Members are encouraged to nominate an existing building, park, or other piece of infrastructure in the Boston area that they believe makes a positive and integral contribution to the built or urban environment. Nominate features that you believe deserve special recognition and possess attributes...

Welcome to the 2020 Annual archBoston Awards! This subforum will be used for discussing the categories and nominating projects. The neighboring subforum will be used once we have collected enough nominations to run votes in each category. This year, we are keeping the same categories as last...

If the issue is Commonwealth Ave trains why not just divert some BC trains to D via Chestnut Hill Ave and Reservoir? Gets them off alignment (IF E-to-D connector).

For what it's worth, here's a reminder for non-transit mapmaker obsessives of what the Bay Village interchange entails The Bay Village junction (at a full buildout as shown here) allows for Seaport trains from points north via Tremont and west via Huntington. If Huntington is connected to the...

It's a cool idea. So what happens to Arlington and Copley? Are you keeping E on that route at fairly low headways? It does make some odd crossings without junctions or connections – Orange is lacking as you mentioned but also the Copley Junction crossing over the new bypass is counterintuitive...

There are a lot of good GLX-UR proposals for the Grand Junction that are *way* better than the hackneyed Commuter Rail official proposals. As far as river crossings, as noted there are many, but there aren't any of the Charles River west of Charles Circle, which I think is what you're noting. A...

Copied Bananarama's post to Crazy Transit Pitches so the non-GL qs can be discussed over there.

Copying this here so questions can be addressed without knocking the GLR thread off-course.

This would be great background noise for a Black Mirror episode

You're still going to be interacting with the old stations with mezzanines or certainly elevators. How deep are you thinking that would not impact subterranean environs above it?

Much higher property values in Eastie and lower values in Lexington relative to their OTL baselines, for two.

For me the biggest challenge with the Essex Routing isn't the Essex St tunnel itself (though that does have challenges), it's the tie-in to Green. Essex St routing would probably require a lot of work to be done on the Boylston St subway west of Boylston station. In order for the Green Line to...

Yeah, I'd love to know the provenance of the pic. If isn't yours please share the link/attribute it to the photographer.

Yeah I wasn't super clear. By "elites" I meant the cultural elites who generally dominated social morés in "polite society" from "the days of yore" through the late-20th Century. The WASP aesthetic mostly, which was enforced via elite institutions in government and industry. Those elites aren't...

So since they didn't pass the bill until the 11th hour, Baker can avoid override votes because they're in a new session? Interesting. Let's see how much he takes a scalpel to it.

The mob. As it has always been. It's just that the mob is now somewhat disconnected from the elites. "Cancel Culture" isn't anything new. All societies have norms of behavior and speech, the violation of which will get a violator shunned by society. Social media and revisionist understandings of...