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What an unbelievable sack of garbage this building is. In every possible way.

Everything about the architecture and design of the Boston Fed is atrocious and hideous. That includes the plaza, which would be lovely in an office park in Waltham. It also includes the building itself, which looks like something Mussolini would've built had he lived 25 years later than he...

I don't know about the designer, but it's clear what the developer was saying: "Eff Boston and the many generations of people who have lived there, giving the city an actual history. I'll cheapen the city permanently to enrich myself temporarily. So long, suckas!"

Off-topic, but I don't know what newspaper not printed in crayon would hire, and maintain, Shirley Leung.

Feels like ensuring 100+ year old structures aren't destroyed is an easier putt from a regulatory perspective than micromanaging the specific brick (or other materials) a developer purchases.

This is pretty amazing. It's like they targeted every parking lot and truly dilapidated structure, leaving everything that's actually usable, nice and historic. I may be missing something, but this looks like development done right...

Restorations look great.

This one has a Neil Armstrong feel to it: "One giant leap for one developer's P&L ... five steps back for Boston's architecture and charm"...

Ditto. Love the bricks. Hate the random window inserts. (Why? Why?)

Think it was "Dr. Jill" putting her Ed.D. to great use ;)

Sorry, Robin D'Angelo - bless me for I have sinned in criticizing my Robespierrean superiors. May they live forever - or not, as they know anything going back more than 5 minutes in history is probably morally reprehensible.

You have to be pretty militantly anti-religious to rebrand the nation's first YWCA into "YW" to expunge any potential trace of its (now apparently evil) founding mission. I guess they did that in 2012 - hadn't realized. You have to be quite the enormous di** to do that - it just feels petty...

Is it just me or does anyone else find the preposterously expensive ($200M, $300M, etc.) public schools being built across the Boston Metro area to be absolutely hideous? Feels like these will all be viewed as teardown candidates in a few decades.

Wow did Belmont get had for $300M. This building looks like one of the hulkers from the 1960s over in the old Arthur D Little complex across town on the Arlington/Cambridge/Belmont line... The townspeople would have been better off spending $50M on asbestos remediation and keeping the rest for...

Since we're on a COVID tangent here ... Given a vaccine is less burdensome (on a daily basis) than mask-wearing and also offers more of a clear path to a disease-free state, I would wager adoption will be widespread across the country, and the self-righteous pooh-poohing from Northeasterners*...

Just wanton destruction, of the sort you typically only get in NYC. Boston, luckily, has largely been spared destruction of its historic fabric the last ~10 yrs.

Best news of my day! Really great to see.

What does that mean? It's nonsense. Don Chiofaro is white. So are 80% of people in Massachusetts, the vast majority of whom are normal middle-class people.

Let's assume for a moment that every detractor of this project is white (which is probably not the case). They are wrong. But what does it matter what color their skin is? Would their wrongness be right if they were a different race?

On the one hand, a dynamic and vibrant economy needs to have new companies (and their brands), and it is undoubtedly good that Boston isn't only home to 100+ year old companies. And I'm more concerned about new development being high quality architecture - and avoiding the destruction of our...