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Do you have a weekly quota that requires 9/10 posts to be intentionally contrarian? lol

Would probably end up being more expensive. Doing a selective demo like that would be logistically difficult (think of crane/machine access to areas with existing structure in the way). The number of custom façade fittings would balloon exponentially having to deal with sealing around those...

The lack of any kind of shading structure is a huge miss.

He's shooting from over in Eastie, probably somewhere around here. Foreshortening at that distance + a zoom lens will produce this effect (not shopped).

Maybe an internal collapse? Seems wild to install the full thing (with it clearly matching the same stone color/type as the rest of the entry) then decide to swap it out. That sort of design decision should've/would've been done earlier through physical or digital mockups.

Is there something special it's supposed to be connecting to? Just to the middle of Summer Street? Don't remember what/if anything planned for that parcel to the south.

I don't want to sound contrarian, but while I appreciate the bland competency of this project urbanisticly, I really find it irrationally overwrought in some its details and overall massing. Somehow it's doing so much at once yet the result is a mixed bag of handsome and cut corners without...

I absolutely loath the fake truss.

DSR has experience with a similarly weird condition at Alice Tully Hall in NYC

The area quartered off might just be a staging area for construction in those mentioned areas.

I sorta dig the truss structure itself - it's about as light as it can be for those spans. But I've always been irked by the sloppy concrete deck and rats nest of hvac too. Skylights would definitely make a cool renovation.

I'm trying to imagine city and state officials riding the SL1 from the airport when it opened. It's by far the most rattily, loud, indigent bus routes I've taken in the city. The little intermission at Silverline Way where the driver has to exit the bus and manually switch the gear at the back...

Reference this reply with construction sequence video embedded. There are vertical members flanking the main arches under the core.

Is this a joke

Coincidentally, a mid-tier architecture enthusiast youtuber released a video a couple weeks ago about building signage. It's focus is mainly on the Trump Tower in Chicago, but speaks generally about the evolution of signage both culturally and about its waning relevance. And for what it's...

Like this

The Minneapolis tower has the benefit of having more opaque cladding material for light to cast onto at night. This is all glass so you really won't be able to get the dramatic effects on each setback that you see there.

Really?

You're forgiven. It's a very popular park and especially great to run/bike down. Really cool scale of space and separated well enough from the riverside path. I linger pretty often. Coincidentally I was just at SoWa today and spent a good amount of time at the urban park space under 93 which is...

To be fair, there's successful precedent for this working elsewhere. Riverside park in NYC has a viaduct running over it and it creates a very cool space with paths parallel and crossing below. Playgrounds, sports courts, running tracks, a little cafe, etc. Not directly the same since Bowker is...