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Yeah I work in theater and events and basicly all theater/major concerts in NYC and Boston have been cancled through the end of 2020 the earliest. And when it does return it looks like houses will be less than 25% full. There is literally no reason for them to be working on this right now as the...

Wow! I completely missed this project. Back in undergrad I had an exhibit design internship at the Museum of Science. I would grab lunch at the Galeria every once in a while and would meet friends there after I got out a lot. While it was dated even back then it has a ceritian post-modern charm...

Ground was broken and construction began on this theater in 2019. It doesnt fit the paramater of "not yet under construction", but could likely be nominated for best new development next year.

What is it about the layout of the square that you loved? Why is changing the flow of traffic detrimental to the soul of the city?

@Tallguy Well if you wont accept it from @Blackbird, I lived in and around Worcester for over 20 years, went to weddings and holiday masses inside Mount Carmel, and had a friend of a friend killed in Kelly Square by a truck. Fixing an extremely dangerous intersection is nothing to be mourned.

Even being precast it adds a great additional texture to the building and makes the whole thing really pop. I'm kind of reminded of how every one decried Alucobond for years but loved it on 10 Farnsworth and the Mass Art Treehouse. Precast and Alucobond are not the issue, It's about using...

While they may not be the most beautiful buildings in the world they are very much of a specific time and place.

few more images I've stumbled on I think could deserve this: Harvard SEC by @BeeLine The Sudbury by @Gunner02 One Post Office Square Makeover by @BeeLine Kenmore Square North by @mmssrro

I was looking back at the most recent BCDC presentation, specifically the concept drawings and models on pages 12-14, and I finally understand what they were trying to do with the structures design. They began with thinking of it as a "bookshelf" of vertical masses leaning on each other and a...

The craziest thing about the subway shutdown is stated in the second to last paragraph of this Gothamist article, "...Because transit workers still need to access the system at all hours — and since there’s not enough space in the rail yard to hold all of the cars, anyway — the trains will...

RE: Kennedy green way. When we used to do these awards there was an unwritten/ kinda written rule of no nominations less than 15 years old if I remember correctly.... if that is still happening this time around the greenway would be too new...

I nominate the updated Riverside Station development proposal that passed. Major TOD replacing a huge parking lot and over one million square feet in Newton of all places. Huge win for the city and whole region.

Ok. There is one picture that I remember from last year that really stuck with me. This one by @Subdivisions is exactly what Boston feels like everytime I'm in town. The grit, the failed modernism, the old brick against the shiny new subway car. This is the layering that makes Boston such a...

When we used to do these awards I would keep a running list all year of pictures I thought deserved this distinction. Sorting back through every picture from 2019 just feels too daunting right now. There was one image of them tearing down the garage for Winthrop Center that still sticks in my...

real simple. The Embrace. the gaudy Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King memorial for the common. While I am all for the concept of a memorial and even the placement of it on the common, the winning design, chosen in 2019, is simply an eye sore that will only be used for selfie backdrops.

Bringing back some perennials from the past version of these awards: 1) THE WINTHROP BUILDING!!!!!! - best building in Boston hands down and always looked over. the elegant curve, the beautiful color combination, the way it perfectly fits its site contextually. 2) Harvard Square Station - one...

I'll nominate parcels 14/15 pike air rights. Not only is the gaping hole in the ground a blight, so is the rear of the parking garage that is visible and the disaster that is the lack of cross walks and bad state of the sidewalks surrounding it.

I second Quaker Lane and Emerson College Little Building Addition and Renovation

just want to make sure a "none of the above" or "no award" will be included as an option because I also can not think of any infrastructure deserving this.

my two perennial nominees from way back when: Mass Eye and Ear - for its dead streetscape and appearance of eating a much more sucessfull building Harbor Towers - For not just the fenced off pool creating a barrier to the harbor walk but largely for the obstruction it's residence perform.