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I'm willing to believe that BB may have meant, "...good urbanism and good architecture are distinct concepts, though they are deeply intermingled with eachother...." Which is not the same thing as saying that "good urbanism is necessary but not sufficient for good architecture", ....although...

...they had the center lane here closed for months and months just a couple years ago to completely rebuild the median...

Maybe (hopefully?) it will taper towards less green and more blue as the panel install moves upwards toward the top of the building?

Hasn't the super-jumbo part of the expansion already been built?

I mostly drink whatever I can get my hands on, at a pretty steady clip from 5pm till about 11.

Allright, allright, allright....

Ok. I'm no expert here. But the A380 wasn't competing with the 737. It was competing with the 777, mostly. And a 777 can give you almost 400 pax on 2 engines. There have been 2,000 orders for 777s. The reason that's relevant, btw, is lower maintenance cost per per passenger mile. (That's...

^Hey man crazypitches gonna crazy.... But fine let's negotiate it down to the Blue version of the Mattapan HSL...

Re: General Electric HQ (Phase 1 - Necco Buildings Reno) | 244-284 A Street | Fort Po Wow. Relieved that - at this point - looks GE is not going to leave the state & city holding the bag. But mostly my reaction is that this outcome would have been completely inconceivable - outside of a...

^ Yeah and at this point the idea of a 'tech capital' is an anachronism. 'Technology' has permeated all industries and elements of the economy. Now - a lot of people use 'tech' as a shorthand for 'consumer electronics & internet media'. And if that's what we're talking about then Boston has...

"All men Die, But not all men Live" - Ulysses S. Grant

I think it's a vast overstatement to say that Binney is an urban disaster. Maybe 10 years ago, but not today - and it definitely has the potential to be even better in the future. Binney in Kendall is sort of like Cambridge St. on the other side of the river. Cambridge St. in Boston isn't...

Too many engines per passenger....

You'd love it even more if canal st were a pedestrian only biergarten leading to a new park/plaza/retail space covering the ramps @ haymarket ... and there were an 80-foot-wide, raised-platform, brick & granite-paved crosswalk taking you across causeway st. to get there! But yeah agreed its...

Yeah I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that that was the plan at one point, but Winthrop managed to stop it from happening because the extended, parallel 15L/33R would have been so close to the shore in winthrop (and they succeeded in stopping it in part because that section of the is...

Interesting. Yes impossible to get anything parallel to 4_22 because of how tight the Bayswater St side is. But you *could* shift the entire ' Chelsea runway' (is it 15_33? Runs nw to se?) out towards deer island, potentially on piers, so that it wouldn't intersect with the 4/22s and so that...

Hey thanks for pushing the analysis & hypotheses guys. All I can add is that even after all this discussion I'm still not sure what's being built. But to take it from a different angle - if they are *not* taking the opportunity to open the 'yellow wall' and add concession and lounge space ...

Yeah the thing about the current location is that half the surrounding area has zero density because it's the motherfuxking ocean. Hard to replicate that in the western suburbs.

Yeah this is my favorite aB thread at the moment btw