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Sweet Jesus is that hideous.

^^ Not as far as I've seen. Just seems like a logical thing to do - you have two major bikeways in close proximity (3 miles), with a railroad connecting them. Just as elsewhere (e.g., the proposed-but-stalled bikeway in Belmont) you could theoretically pave a biketrail alongside the Fitchburg...

Agree the Bedford vote seems like a bummer. That said, a few random (kinda-mitigating) thoughts: + Per JumboBuc, maybe this isn't that much of a derailer (to be seen...) + Even if Bedford paved its portion of the Reformatory Branch Trail, doing the same with Concord's seems like a heavier lift...

^^ Wrong. This building is utter, utter trash. It tore down a perfectly viable, historic and much nicer building. This is exactly what 'doing it wrong' looks like. Every party involved - the developer, the architect, the city regulatory bodies - should be ashamed of themselves.

Do we still have an annual Hall of Shame voting process? The WHOOP(S) building really needs to be shamed as much as possible for its bad citizenship.

The latest version looks like an unfortunate instance (aren't they all) of Value Engineering. Feels like a cheapening of both: 1) the Mass Pike-facing podium/undercarriage elements (moving from terraced greenery, with a wood (?) or copper (?) podium and nice cross-bracing over the Pike ... to...

You'd be surprised...

Sigh. Boston continues lurching toward the grotesque, decimating its history. This, the Arlington Building, the Huntington Theater project, the Simmons residential campus, 140 Clarendon Street (the glass anonymity that is to be "Raffles" - which, Singaporean background aside, sounds like a...

First rendering still looks the best, IMO. In the most recent rendering the "Apogee" building has depressingly devolved into a standard-fare 2020s lab building - it's just terrible architecture.

I'm lost. Are they: 1) preserving the historic building, and adding to it?, 2) demolishing the historic building, and building something fully new that vaguely looks like the old?, or 3) building another Durfee HS elsewhere in the city, leaving the historic building as-is for some other purpose?

Bugaboo Creek was literally my family's (well, us kids') favorite restaurant growing up. We dreamed of the appetizers for months between visits: chili-stuffed potatoes and mozarella sticks with pepperoni flecks in the cheese.

This is a big step backward. Moving from an aesthetically pleasing ensemble, filling its space well in the streetgrid, to the architectural equivalent of Mos Eisley Cantina: an awkward hodgepodge incomprehensibly filling its space.

Still think they should keep the Payless Building's facade.

This reminds me of one of the "airport business villages" you see sprout up around some airports. O'Hare has a bunch of it. So does the Zurich Airport - although the architecture there is of much higher quality than the perfectly named WHOOP House's.

This looks like aesthetically retarded aliens kidnapped an architecture firm. It's replacing dull but dignified buildings. It's a bigger theme architecturally for Boston, which increasingly looks like a formerly dowdy but self-respecting widow who took up meth, started wearing Ed Hardy clothes...

It's pretty good. Certainly not at the level of the Yale addition shown above (or of Princeton's Whitman College, a 2007 Collegiate Gothic addition). But reams above the one-dimensional college modernism that predominates today (see Princeton's most recent construction, New College East and...

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

So they're basically removing the stucco on the existing house and putting new wood up over the house's skeleton?

Fixed it ;)

I'm sure there were reasons for this (I guess?) and the addition is, um, "professionally built" ... but Bigelow Chapel was a near-perfect structure and seemed to meet its needs - including in times when it probably saw a lot more throughput - for 100+ years. Does literally every building in...