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So ... this is where the ice-skating rink, farmers market, European-style piazza, black-box theater, ultimate frisbee game and political rally will all be happening simultaneously, right?

No - but there were significant architectural changes made in 1954-56. See the top of Page 2 here: https://www.firstparishcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CHC-Application-drawings-First-Parish-Church-9-8-2020-1.pdf The current updates would "undo" those changes, returning architectural...

Vienna and London (and I'm sure other cities in Europe) also have retail under (mainly rail) viaducts. It's a fair point that permanent retail tends to occurmore under elevated rail (rather than highway) lines. I don't necessarily think the latter is impossible - but the best examples I can...

Amazing. Of the many times I've seen First Parish I actually (somehow) had no idea it was essentially 1950s architecture - I assumed this was an 'authentic' look. Very cool to see; hoping the materials and execution are top-notch.

109 E 79th Street is a great example of recent NYC architecture. That said - it unfortunately resulted in razing 3-4 brownstones and an even more impressive 5-6 story masonry structure. Would love to see more buildings like it built on top of razed postwar dreck ... which fills too much of the...

Amazing - those would be a dream come true. Very curious: 1) What is the actual assessed likelihood of something happening just b/c it's in the Priority Trails Network? 2) What can be done to help realize it?

The size, shape, loading requirements, mechanical requirements (hideous HVAC up top), density (people / sq foot actually working inside) and - while more on the city than the nature of the use of labs - fact that they effectively never have any retail / commerce on the ground floor make labs -...

Well, that sucks. Fantastic old building replaced by yet another lab that could as easily have been built along Rt 128 and is unlikely to have any commerce on the ground floor. A loss for us all.

^^ Yes, fair points. Then again, it's the NYT ("lazy, surface-level reporting"), so go figure...

Another grotesque-ification of a church, the buildings that had the most architectural effort and pride (of regular citizens, versus the mega rich of the time) put into them. Good that they retained something. Pathetic that they had to make it look so freakish, like the former Holy Trinity...

^^ This trend is tiny and not a real driver of urban population loss. 99% of that is driven by the fact too many people stopped having children above the replacement rate, if at all.

Anyone happen to know when exactly Boqueria is opening in the Seaport? Have been to their NYC locations - amazing tapas. https://boqueriarestaurant.com/tapas-bar-boston-seaport/

It is. Newark's Terminal A is a similar paradigm shift for a NY-region airport.

Lufthansa's lurking in the background too.

This is why we can't have nice things.

What a little shite Drucker is. That family is nothing but bile on Boston's architectural legacy.

I like Phase I much better than Phase II, which looks like trash.

At this point, I like this more than I expected. Refreshingly bold.

i think Boston has more than enough jobs / office space to stimulate the economics growth required for housing demand :)

I get all that - I'm just asking, why is it that a Michelle Wu keeps allowing every massive construction project to be lab space while claiming her No. 1 priority is 'affordable housing'? Feels like a disconnect / joke...