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    AIA Convention

    A simpler time…
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    Ode to Brutalism

    Don’t miss this long-overdue exhibition at the MET. Seeing it myself in a couple of weeks.
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    Boston Government Center Walking Tour: Urban Renewal and its Legacies

    Saturday, November 18, 20232:00pm - 3:30pm Corner of Cambridge and Bowdoin St This tour will this visit this focal point of Boston to consider how urban redevelopment of the 1960s played out here and its legacies for today. Twenty-first century redevelopment is transforming this area rapidly...
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    “The So-Called Future “

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    Chelsea Creek Rails-to-Tollway

    Hey kids! This ill-considered proposal is still simmering. My revolutionary comrades and I stand opposed. If you think this sucks (and there’s a whole spectrum of reasons to think that), drop me a note…
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    Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District

    It’s replaced Millennium Tower as Boston’s tallest cure for insomnia.
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    NYC Architecture and Development

    Calls to mind the SoDoSoPa storyline in Season 19 of South Park.
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    What are you listening to now?

    And now for something completely different…
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    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    Very clever and not unusual at all.
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    ^ My mistake. My mental calendar is sometimes off. Date’s probably associated with 53 State Street.
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    ^ 75 State Street. Photo circa 1983.
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    2023 Pritzker Prize - Sir David Alan Chipperfield

    About damn time… More projects & photos.
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    🔷 Open Thread

    H/T to my buddy Andrew…
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    Educate everyone on a good website...

    Mods, delete if someone’s already posted this. https://www.leventhalmap.org/
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    What are you listening to now?

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    🔷 Open Thread

    “Looks good on you though…”
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    Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

    This iteration is embarrassing. No one who’s advocated for preservation via adaptive reuse has this in mind. Some may know, I’ve attended a handful of public meetings, spoken up, and submitted comments. Guess I’d better sharpen my pencil… These added stumps are completely forgettable. Scrape...
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    Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

    This just dropped. I’ve no issue with the concept of “building up,” but the schemes rendered here are to my eyes lacking in an appropriate level of architectural rigor.

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