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If they are smart they will locate the stadium inland and develop the waterfront with hotels, housing, and shops.

That and they need set backs. This is just bad, massive, instantly dated, doesn't fit the site at all.

Everett, Boston's LIC?

I feel like the same general economics of supply and demand which underpin housing gentrification apply here and that the root of the problem is is a lack of supply of new luxury project that is causing commercial gentrification of these class B spaces. I suspect that this is made worse by the...

I know I am like a day late, hundreds of millions of dollars short, and mostly delusional but I like the current design, its just like 700' short. My PowerPoint dream:

The short answer is a lot. This has what it would guess to be a lot of additional scope cross a few trades which adds complexity and cost in addition to just material costs, not to mention coordination on the design team and contractor (I wonder what the shop drawings are like?). I'd WAG at...

^ I second that. Though I feel like they could have simplified a little bit, they are doing some really interesting things here that appears well thought out.

I would contest that. Low slung isn't the issue, its the management of the design team. Many, most, developers, are not designers/urbanists. They approach development from the perspective of creating an investment product. They undervalue that they are also creating a physical product that is...

Its unfortunate that labs are like the worst building typology for good urbanism but this is a whole new level, these are low-rise monoculture beasts! They feel like sterile federal government buildings in DC. Way too long, the elevations are a thing of nightmares. No where near enough façade...

A photo from a little walk this weekend. I suspect once the façade weathers a bit this will become a nice background building.

Yeah I like the front, It appears to have texture which is a welcome change. The sides and back are the scary parts.

HYM's is significantly better in terms of plan, at least to me. I want a full service grocery store, Market Basket could crush in this location.

the bar is so low. I truly dont understand how decorating a box decently is so challenging.

the black brick is killing me

^I am a little obsessed with the black and white building. Hello Hood Park, I see you.

I may have been drunk when I took this Saturday.

Looks like Nichiha which is actually more expensive than you'd think. IMO, taste and arch details matter more than material cost.

its a small gripe but why didn't they continue the corner detail on the first three floors to the forth floor... it makes an otherwise very well done addition look a bit like an afterthought.

I am all here for a replacement but I hope this isn't it. I think this site is so prime they either really have to push the boat out for some bold modern (but thoughtful) design or go a more tasteful traditionalist route. This looks like a badly massed10 Farnsworth got infected with cantilevers...

Don't forget these gems too. There is the Parting stone, where the road leaving Boston forked. Found here between Roxbury Crossing and Nubian Square and just a block away is the three mile stone. When doing a little research on my place in Forthill I found that the owner of the estate that...