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Jaho Coffee Roasters and Wine Bar opened on the corner of Huntington and Harcourt St - basically right underneath the Pru-Copley gerbil tube. I wish them well. They've seemed busy so far for breakfast, and they're probably getting a lively crowd for evening drinks. Other retailers/restaurants...

What's the deal with Revere? Is it a long-ingrained image problem? How could T-accessible beachfront property - and high-end amenities to cater to those properties - not be exploding in this market? I know this will never be Copacabana or Santa Monica, but still... we can do better than Brighton...

Rowley Way in north London (near St. John’s Wood). Beautiful on a number of levels actually. Look at it from the north - where it abuts the railroad tracks - you can see how it’s designed to cleave its heaviest walls against the tracks to minimize noise from trains. The stacked style was a huge...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport It fits: Seaport Blvd is the Comm Ave of the "New" Boston. Comm Ave: Old money, understated elegance and classical forms Seaport Blvd: Global finance, on-trend glitz, ephemeral fashion Personally, I think the city and region benefits greatly from...

We need to think bigger. Eliminate SFR/Storrow all the way from Cambridge Street (SFR will feed directly into the Pike) to Charlesgate. Build the Pike's long-needed Back Bay ramps. Voila - no need for a continuous SFR through to Storrow/Back Bay. Now you've opened up tons of riverfront parkland...

^ That seems harsh. They're packing and layering a ton of retail into a small footprint. It can't all face Tremont - though in fact the small storefronts mostly do. And what doesn't face Tremont seems to open up to it nicely. I also don't know how you would prefer the garage to be situated...

Question: Though I totally get the preservation-minded response, what's so special about this building? Aren't there thousands like it across Brookline, Allston, Brighton, Fenway, Cambridge, Roxbury, Dorchester...? (Asking for a friend, of course)

I've always referred to it as Rt 1 also. At some point they officially re-routed 1 North coming up from Foxboro onto, of all things, 95 South to bring it over to a 93 North concurrency. Not sure why they did this, other than perhaps to get trucks off the parkways? Providence Hwy/VFW is a truly...

^ Note the last parenthesis should be included in the URL I think it's funny that they call this Parkway Apartments, when this is on the section of VFW "Parkway" south of Bridge/Spring that is anything but a parkway... more like a dystopian melange of drive-thrus and chainlink.

I don't get the hate. This does exactly what you want an in-fill building to do. Alright, do the narrow (staircase?) windows look somewhat reminiscent of prison or self-storage? Yeah... maybe... But not worth getting worked up about. I like the materials, the texture, the clear contextual nod to...

Traffic, Shadows, Manhattanization, Gentrification, Open Space, BINGO!

2040 is going to be a banner year. Look forward to full build out of this, and also West Station! Oh, and I could conceivably be a grandparent!

So how long until they can they start taking my money?!?!

Joel, I've posted this idea before, which is quite similar to what you're saying - substitute your downtown routing for the Greenway and they would serve a similar function. I routed things this way to envision Dewey Sq/South Station as a transportation hub and transfer node among the various...

What/where is this row of boutiques?

Thanks for putting together such a great post. A lot of great moments on that cultural trail - though I have to say many seem more 'contrived'/'interventionist' than authentically urban, just judging from the pictures.

Urban Ring is a strange oversight, I agree. But perhaps the most critical of oversights,a and the worst thing about this document in my mind, is the way it kicks the can on any improvements that make for better inner-core connectivity. They give lip service to this when discussing the...

I don't ever bike or even much walk this area. So, am I right in thinking that this would let someone bike from Science Park to the North End without having to go down to Causeway? Looks like it also provides great connectivity via the locks to Charlestown. That's pretty cool.

Probably a symptom of the mere-exposure effect, but I'm starting to see Elkus designs and think "whoa, that's great!"

415 Cambridge is my favorite among this mix. Has a distinctly Copenhagen feel to it. But it's rather bizarre to be building around the auto parts store. How long will that owner hold out, and now what would be able to ever replace it?