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Re: W Hotel I have no knowledge directly of the W construction, but as a general principle, it would be sheer insanity to stop construction at this point, the project has passed the point of no return, and construction probably won't stop until its done. Unless there's some outside litigation...

The one picture shown above is the facade facing the pike... moreover its the back side of a club, hence it is a big, blank wall. Corrugated metal and bright colored panels can create a nice facade if designed properly. Hard to tell from this picture at 60 mph. I'm not sure what the...

Cities have evolved for several thousand years as both employment and residential centers. It is a relatively recent (and largely american) phenomenon to conceive of cities as segregated employment centers, with far flung residential areas surrounding it. The ?new? trend of building housing...

Re: Filene's Sorry to call you out on your very first post, but this is so completely wrong I can't let it slide. Public transit works when there is appropriate density to support it, both residential and commercial, as well as institutional and recreational. To try to pack as much single-use...

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center The housing tower along Exeter would probably help, however the office project on Boylston adds nothing. With the Mandarin completed, they have finally filled in the Boylston streetwall to the point where the plaza in front of the Pru is well...

Re: Jacob Wirth's I'd like to echo ablarc, though I won't be able to do so quite so eloquently, and my latin is certainly worse. The oppressiveness of mega-projects is a function of lack of interest/ visual stimulus, which is often a direct result of number of doors that open onto the street...

Re: 303 Third St (Kendall Square) I went over there on Saturday and as previously noted, it is quite a collection of materials, though the detailing is nothing great. The terra cotta panels are nice, but the metal edge band is brutal. In general all of the materials do help break down the...

A then-and-now comparison will make us all start drinking even more heavily than we already do. Apart from PO Square an the redo of Copley Square, based on these photos the city has been on steady decline in its built form.

Re: W Hotel Actually no glass is clear. Most of it has a greenish tint (just look at the edge of a piece of glass). The amount of it's "clearness", or lack thereof is based on other performance properties (emissivity, transmittance, reflectance, shading coeff, U-value).

Re: Columbus Center Agreed that demo'ing the Shreve building is a disaster. However the MFA hasn't torn down any of its historic building; the entire building by Guy Lowell will remain. The east wing (and hopefully the IM Pei west wing soon too) will be demolished to create Foster's glass...

Re: Jacob Wirth's Why redevelop that whole block, but teave the crappy building on the corner of Tremont and Stuart? Wait, is that beer garden on the roof directly above Jacob Wirth's? That would be about the only redeeming feature of that building.

Re: Parcel 24 Returning to something InTheHood pointed out: the street renderings look nothing like Chinatown. I definitely agree with that, the renderings are rather malnourished, and also the texture and color of Chinatown comment seemed astute. However as I walked through the area from South...

Re: Jacob Wirth's Will that mean that we won't end up with more sandy areas in the middle of the city like we did with the Kensington? I bet the Glass Slipper is happy to market itself as beachfront entertainment. It would have been nice if the mayor had thought of this before he let...

Re: Parcel 24 But the question is: why did the architects change the design, what do they have to gain from going from the original design to this new one? Surely the BU tower isn't so great that it would change an entire design to a copy and I don't think that it's the same architectural...

Northern Avenue is not a dead end, it connects to Sleeper Street and loops back to Seaport Blvd. The entrance to the courthouse and loading is down the other ned of the building anyway. Doubtful that the Northern Avenue bridge will ever get reopened to vehicular traffic. As long as they leave...

Re: Parcel 24 Going back to the article posted on Friday, a few things jump out: It says that the initial proposal was in 2005, but this is just moving forward now? Something in the 3 year delay seems to have dumbed down the design so that it looks akin to everything else that is being built...

You do understand that Plecnik's library was designed in 1930 and built in 1936? His detailing is more mannerist than historicist, but he employed construction techniques that would be impossible to replicate today. (Though if you like his work, in addition to Ljubljana, I would recommend a...

FP3 This seems to be one of the nicest projects in the city, contextual yet unabashedly modern. Does anyone have any more recent/new pictures of this?

Re: Parcel 24 Did anyone see the feature in the Globe a few weeks back about the BRA's new head planner? I don't remember precisely, but the article said that he had a hand in every project that's been built in the last 10 years (and by extension currently being built). I remember thinking...

Anyone want to guess how well the wood encased in glass will hold up? My guess is that it get's baked inside pretty quickly. While it looks kind of cool, glass and wood don't play well together (think Logan Terminal E). However, apart from the penthouse (my how it soars!) this is actually an...