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I commuted on the orange line daily until covid using an umbrella stroller. Given both my kids, that's about ~5 years of daily riding with one. They are extremely common - there were typically five or six of us each day - you can't fit a full size stroller on a rush hour train. However, the...

20 Inner Belt. It has a thread here: https://archboston.com/community/threads/hotel-and-residential-development-20-inner-belt-road-east-somerville.6043/ A hotel, a mixed use residential, and an enormous parking garage that will serve both and the existing commercial building next door (which...

OK, so this is a little off topic, but this board includes people who know people, if you know what I mean. I have a friend who works in the Somerville school system with a wacky idea of trying to get the mbta to let the kids tour one of the GLX stations before they open. Seems like a decent PR...

I sent an admin email about this, but never got a response (no worries). I was trying to log in from another computer, and I've forgotten my password* but the reset email never seemed to arrive. I have emails from archBoston in my inbox so I don't think it's that I have my email set incorrectly...

There is definitely some grumbling about our station in East Somerville (how done it looks, why can't it open, why do we need to wait for gilman, etc). Waiting for the GLX is this neighborhood's favorite spectator sport at this point, I'm not sure what the old timers are going to argue about...

I used to wheel my toddler in a stroller down it twice a day, as he was in daycare near MGH and I lived up in Somerville. I can still tell you where all the holes in the sidewalk where I would have to lift the stroller are (because they haven't fixed any of them in the intervening years). By...

I find I like "random bullshit but symmetrical" facade a LOT more than the usual random bullshit facade. It's still not... you know... great, but the symmetry helps a bunch there.

I think it's a spotlight. More than photoshop, but not something physically mounted up there. Look how the bottom of some letters hit the top edge of the building. It's presumably projected on the mechanical penthouse screen, which does indeed exist that far up.

This is a big and active site now, I assume because of it's out of the way location no one has wandered down to snap a pic before (apparently we don't have anyone living in Brickbottom on the forums, I'm surprised!) Watching them dig trenches for slurry walls kept my 2 year old occupied for a...

Not much to report. It seems like they only have people on site a few days a week - they set up the concrete forms for like 1/10th of the floor, then they go away for a few days while it cures, then they move the frames down. It's been like... a month? since they started floor 2, and they're...

From Somerville Ave, looking south across D2.1-3 Edit: Fixed image

A little dollop of brutalism on an entryway or accent feature is totally fine. It's like garnishing a cocktail with a lego brick. That... sounded better in my head.

I think we run a real risk of it being random or at least factors outside our control, and we shouldn't pat ourselves on the back too hard because who knows how the wheel turns. That said, I agree that MA has a better welfare state than most of the US and that has real impact on crime. Parks...

Inspired by BeeLine's pictures in the general Somerville thread, here's my sorta-monthly update: 1) Hotel section is still a parking lot 2) Concrete is on the second floor (Pic below is from Nov.26) 3) Parking garage looks complete, has lights wired, guardrails installed, etc. 4) Roland St...

Oh hey, you were in my neighborhood. 20 Inner Belt has it's own thread. Thanks for the pics.

You are underestimating how popular that edge of Somerville/union square is with young engineers+scientists. The neighborhood is almost entirely professionals priced out of Cambridge at this point. There will be a LOT of people walking to work here.

I'm also happy to be getting a crosswalk at Franklin (badly needed) and a chunk of Cobble Hill's useless no-trespassing-signed green space opened up to public use. Edit: And a sidewalk down New Washington! I'll actually be able to walk the kids to see the dogs without dodging trucks from the...

I mean, we're building X-over-1's as fast as we can down the other side of Washington St, just everything south of Washington is complicated by some special interest or another (Cobble Hill has 0 interest in building a street wall, and the rest of the area is either this new city building or...

Yeah, I've designed a weld that wasn't actually possible to manufacture as well. In my case, the shop just substituted a thinner piece of metal without telling me because the thickness I specified wouldn't weld. It actually failed in the field and broke a very nice piece of test equipment owned...

I remember being taken into one such space in the building that now houses Greentown Labs near Union Sq in Somerville years ago (I was never musical, but I was helping a coworker who was move some equipment) and being really taken aback by the ancient building with crufted layers of cultural...