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HOLY CRAP... I'm floored by how emotionally overwhelmed I feel by the proposal for 350 Summer St (Parcel N) after being delightfully surprised by the earlier render for 400 Summer (Parcel P). It's BEAUTIFUL and finally feels like a contextually appropriate design for something going up next to...

I mean... they do experiments here. There might well be a portal into some alternate dimension where they pull over tech, policies, and practices to implement in this universe for their clients... Holy cow this rendering of the east face makes this building look great. Having recently been up...

Hah! Thanks! I'll admit my parenthetical about the occasionally hyper-critical dialogue was meant to be reflective of all projects. I think it's been fairly even keel for building 4. Also, the update to the forum is amazing... Feels like something this side of 2015. The likes feature should...

It's been a while since I've been on here with any regularity, so I was very taken aback when I biked over the Longfellow and saw this on the approach to Kendall on 4th July: It's really amazing how much of an impact these buildings are having on the Cantabrigian skyline and how dramatic the...

Re: Longfellow Place (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End Most of us clamoring for less parking aren't critical of it just because garages are unsightly. You can certainly put lipstick on a pig and make the street experience for a garage actually contribute to urban fabric...

I explored Hudson Yards the week they opened the Vessel and during Björk's christening performance of The Shed. Honestly, it was nice to see a place activated like that, but it would be nice if the Seaport could be as vibrant outside of office hours. In Boston, I'm less worried about a place...

The Leather District Neighborhood Association is having a meeting tonight inside the Radian to discuss the project. My boyfriend is a property manager for one of the adjacent buildings and he got a scathing email about height, shadows, greenspace, and the need to respect the cited 100ft limit...

There seem to be a couple of documents including a MassDOT/MBTA TOD policies and guidelines doc from 2017 and this more recent MBTA TOD guidelines from 2018, both derivative from the TOD policy update initiated in 2016. Most of it was policy shaping TOD, but the 2018 guide is considerably more...

I passed through here this weekend and was (stupidly) surprised at how much this is filling in the view from Riverside Station and when walking up Jersey Street. Moreover, I'm REALLY interested in how this is going to be treated at street level, especially at the entrance to Yawkey Station (or...

The webcam on top of the Avalon North Station also has a PERFECT view of the approach traffic to runway 27, which means east-facing units in the building will have a beautiful view of that dance every evening.

Agreed with this and a lot of the parking discussion following. That said, it's still mind-boggling to include parking in the build cost rather than trying to work out a shared parking arrangement with the adjacent garages that have non-overlapping hours of utilisation with the residential and...

Is it just me or does the overhang of the building/recessed podium make the building feel so much more imposing in a way that the greenscape band-aid won't make up for? The uniform tan is insult to injury.

Saw this for the first time in a while last night while coming across the Mass Ave bridge and it struck me how much it feels like Kendall is really growing in with a high cluster, especially with all the cranes at heights that break the plateau set by the Marriott, Proto, new Akamai HQ, and...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport This is so much more true to life though, especially in the summer, than the hundreds of people milling about in the streets as if it were Midtown Manhattan. Thanks for linking the video! It was a really good visual wrap-up of all the projects...

Cue the jokes about the person on the bike riding in the opposite direction of intended traffic on the bike lane... 🤦*♂️ Really curious how the discussion went about the Argyle St parklet adjacent. Would make a lot of sense to t-off Argyle to have fully intersect with Talbot Ave at a right...

1000x YES. Honestly, cutting trains and transfers for maintenance is pretty time-consuming and exist only because so much of the equipment is so old. In contrast, modern trainsets have swappable modules for pretty much everything so a whole set isn't out of service for too long and maintenance...

^ Yeah, NJ Transit's bi-level EMUs could be interesting, though the capacity concerns pushing for like-for-like replacement of unpowered bi-levels with bi-level EMUs seems to be a hot button topic. The prevailing opinion in current management is that bi-levels are needed to maintain rush-hour...

I think this is the bigger problem considering the context and the adjacent neighbourhood that still lacks a welcoming civic space. Chinatown just had a BPS branch reopen, but that's not nearly enough. JVS runs a career center next door at 75 Franklin, but that's not nearly enough. I still think...

Actually, that's not a bad idea, though dips uncomfortably into the territory of getting someone to pay for it and the state to agree to the new crossing spanning BET's lead tracks. I think it'd be a good ped/transit connection to BET for employees (are they including a connection from...

I wonder if the intended effect was actually confusing people on this board... 🤔 Seriously though, an actual implementation of a Dazzle camouflage would've been actually interesting and possibly less offensive than this.