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Who is memorialized in the park? WWI dead from Worcester only, or from across the state?

FWIW, a few points on Lord & Taylor's history ... it actually dates back to 1826 (not 1859 as was said elsewhere), and it looks like its troubles over the last 30 years have been due at least in part to mismanagement by bigger dept. store chains (May Co. and Hudson's Bay of Canada): The company...

In addition to 3rd Ave and 59th (which works great), there's also a Home Depot on 23rd Street, between Broadway and Fifth. Both right in the heart of Midtown. I don't know how successful the stores are economically, but as a consumer they work very well. Really too bad about Lord & Taylor. The...

IMO, Newton is about the worst place to invest in a home right now. Prices are way out of line compared to any town in the area (other than maybe Brookline/Belmont/Winchester/Lexington/Concord). Now they're bringing a ton of supply online. And frankly with a huge influx of multifamily the...

+1. Years ago when I toured Dartmouth I remember there were some atrocious 1960s/70s dorms they called "the showers." These basically look like that. I have a feeling that rather sooner than later we'll all be hoping a whole lot of schlock built the last 10 years gets rebuilt, or at least refaced.

x 1,000,000 I get that human labor (and its ability to generate unique architectural elements) is relatively much more costly than it was 100 years ago. But it never fails to blow my mind that at a time when we have hundreds of years of architectural success stories to look at; when...

HUZZAH!

This development gets at least 1 thumb down. The proposed buildings look OK - typical schlock for our architecturally ideas-poor era. But the idea they are replacing anything "dilapidated" is as much horse---- as I've ever heard. If these buildings are "dilapidated" then so is most of Newton...

This is also great to see: "...In 2020 some of its greatest Egyptian masterpieces will be reinstalled and reinterpreted in two newly designed and renovated space." Along with Greek and Roman art, the Egyptian galleries are absolutely foundational (and staggering) at the MFA, but have been...

Didn't they just renovate many of the Greek galleries in the last 3-4 years? (The new galleries are great, by the way.) From what I can understand, this renovation re-do those as well... (though happy to be wrong). Seems like a weird duplication of spending efforts? ***** EDIT: Upon actually...

^^ Adjmi's been doing these types of designs in NYC since long before David Adjaye was invited to bid on anything. Adjmi IMO is a much better architect than the massively over-rated Adjaye. And I greatly prefer Adjmi's various (relatively small, low-fanfare) buildings in NYC to Adjaye's 130...

Agree with those lamenting the loss of another pre-war structure. It's great (well ... kinda ... I guess?) that Boston will have a new ultra-expensive glassy hotel. It's very unfortunate we have to lose a history-laden masonry mid-rise for it. I'd be in favor of a blanket protection for...

What demolished / threatened structures in the last year were worth fighting for?

This is why Worcester can't doesn't have nice things.

It really seems like historic preservation is taking it on the chin over the last year in Boston. Without knowing the numbers, I didn't have a sense that many historic buildings were lost over the past 10 years - which one might have taken as a sign the city's citizens and politicians actually...

"Worcester: We have no sense of history, place, or self!" "Worcester: Got History? Sure, we'll demolish that!" "Worcester: We won't lift a finger to save our history, but we'll turn tricks for a zero-sum 'economic development' boondoggle. We'll even subsidize a MINOR LEAGUE stadium!" With 2...

Why don't these a$$holes redevelop Symphony Plaza East and West first? There should be a rule that, before any pieces of urbanism / architecture that actually cause people to like being where they are, are demolished, every failed modernist structure that causes people to want to be somewhere...

What compels someone to say something that logically twisted and racist? It says one unit will be for artist housing. Is that reason to rage against artist housing? The set-aside says nothing about race; why do you assume this is "for the white"? Finally, why should government exclude...

The old brick homes were stately - unfortunate that they had to be lost. Does anyone know what the final count was in terms of buildings preserved :: buildings lost? Believe the filing documents referred to 4 of 5 buildings on-site being demo'ed for this, if I remember correctly.

I had lost track of the latest iteration of the corner building that is replacing the historic structure. What a bait and switch. The current version looks like it crawled in off of the I-95 shoulder in Waltham. This is why we can't have nice things (or our history).