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I'll accept the premise that it's proportioned for Chinese characters, but I'm not sure why it represents poor oversight. Imperfect collaboration maybe - but its not clear that this is some kind of failure? Is this actually a problem? Or just a quirk?

Re: Crossroads at Kenmore | 560 Commonwealth Ave | Kenmore Square How do they clean the windows and how does it shed water / ice?

Re: Crossroads at Kenmore | 560 Commonwealth Ave | Kenmore Square and yes it does get 'fatter' as it goes up

Re: Crossroads at Kenmore | 560 Commonwealth Ave | Kenmore Square Fair enough - but i think that 'shorter, simpler paths for peds and bikers' and 'traffic calming street layout vs. existing drag strip boulevards' are pretty close to being objective, unambiguous descriptions of the proposal...

Re: Crossroads at Kenmore | 560 Commonwealth Ave | Kenmore Square ...and after wathcing the video again, i'd add this thought... Even though it might be somewhat less intuitive / straight for some drivers, the new layout would be much simpler, safer and more direct for pedestrians and bikers...

...plus where the Blue actually wants to go is Watertown Sq...

Re: Crossroads at Kenmore | 560 Commonwealth Ave | Kenmore Square Agreed that those are worth thinking through. But I can't see why any of those issues should be anything close to a dealbreaker on this. Yes it's likely that drivers will be a little confused and frustrated for the first...

Re: Crossroads at Kenmore | 560 Commonwealth Ave | Kenmore Square Or go the other way - outbound on Brookline to Park Dr. @ Landmark Center, then Mountfort / Carlton to Cottage Farm / BU Bridge. The point is that its a pretty low-volume movement, which is why its not possible in the status...

...and there are a lot of grade crossings in Needham that blue cant do, plus a lot of the stations rely on pedestrian track crossing.

The Causeway?

Thanks as always for the high quality info. Is it fair to say that the whole mem drive overpass there is overdue for a major reconstruction anyway? (Anyone who has driven over or under it in the last 15 or so years will understand...) And I understand that the boathouse and the adjacent...

Bring popcorn...

Re: One Congress | West End The garage goes over Congress, not Merrimack. There is already a new entrance/ exit opened up on bowker, served by new internal scissor ramps. b The existing garage entrance and the barrel ramp.will go away. I believe the section of the garage over Congress will...

^ We'll see. In this case at least, bringing in a hot-shot firm to do some kind of landscape architecture makeover would be a big mistake. (And hopefully the MLK work won't be a trojan horse for that either). IMHO the Common could use some high quality refresh & incremental improvements that...

Looks to me like they've already done a lot of work on the Common in recent years. That familiarity is probably a good thing.

Ok thanks I understand now that these are just massing / layout models. Should have been obvious. I still hope this will be well-designed. Because - as Tangent said what we're doing here is building a wider highway closer to the river. Hard to understand how this is happening in 2019.

I think he's saying that your photos are good and the buildings are bad.

Leaving aside for the moment the question of whether this is the optimal layout... ...its mystifying to me that a structure like this would be 'designed' with a purely utilitarian form. Would we let the city or state build a new office building in Boston without an ounce of architectural...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport I don't think I was suggesting that anyone living in the seaport owes you anything. But - keep in mind (to extend your comparison) that the zoning in the backbay was very prescriptive, down to the acceptable dimensions of bay windows, with the...

One more time, with gusto: Fuck this corporate shakedown bullshit. Good riddance.