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SGA does nice work. I like their building at 2 Drydock as well. Don't love the above grade parking in this one, but otherwise seems solid.

The weird thing is that this is Perkins and Will. They do some really nice work. Just not in the Boston office

The proposal is really disappointing. PCA did the Radius building next door, which turned out pretty well. This is just over designed and fussy. The other recently approved projects on Leo Burmingham (50 and 70) are pretty straightforward contemporaryish buildings. This one should be the same...

Yeah, the last two Perkins and Will buildings in Boston (this and the Minecraft hotel in South Boston) are really not great. It's a shame, that used to be a good firm.

I don't think the Gulf site alone is developable--they want to combine with the Star Market site. So once the grocery store has moved across the street to a new building, then we will see a proposal for this one.

At some point, the lab market is going to collapse and Boston will be left with these giant buildings dotted all over. They are horrible for office conversion--so much space dedicated to mechanicals, floor plates that are too big to give people light and view. I wish there was more thinking...

There is an architect going around "modernizing" a lot of the bases of older buildings--generally for the worse. It looks good for about 10 years and then just needs to be redone. If you have a cool older space, embrace it.

It is very much a masonry area (including the new Liberty Mutual building). While I think Boston can get a little obsessive around masonry, this feels so alien--more so than the original. I think the quietness of the earlier version fit in better. It might be how they are rendering the glass as...

We'll have to wait to see the finished project, but the material palette feels really diminished from the rendering.

It's tough in South Station because the functionality of the space feels very compromised by all of the kiosks as so forth that the interior is littered with. I'm not sure how good the MBTA is at generating revenue from advertising--a lot of it is up for long after events advertised are over...

I think the real issue is how many kiosks and advertising crap the MBTA fills the space with. I always think of 30th Street in Philly--it's such a great space, wide open and you can enjoy the scale and the visual clarity of that space. The MBTA is really only interested in putting as much...

Honestly, I thing in general they have a good impact on projects, but I don't get the issue with this one. It's a nice project and a fantastic replacement for that edge (although, I'm in the keep 1 Cumberland camp).

The design of the facade can go a number of ways--personally, I prefer a clean, contemporary design to the weird psudo-historic base they had in the second version. The first version was rewarmed Causeway Street, the site deserves better than that.

Agreed. I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but there is what looks like a sampler panel at the intersection of Kneeland and Atlantic. So that seems like another good sign for the tower.

Man, that brick blend is really awful. If I was doing construction in Boston I'd want to know who that sub is to be able to avoid them.

Yeah, except then there are the real losers like 88 Black Falcon messing up their average.

Yeah, this is built in a factory--that is supposed to mean better quality control. The brick mix is all over the place on these.

Sort of depressed about how prominent all those vents are on an otherwise pretty nicely composed facade. Even just the bare minimum of color matching would have helped.

I wonder if it is metal panel now as well--looks like it. I preferred the green terra cotta but this is cheaper for sure. And won't clash with the CarGo logo.

Yes, but it doesn't have to be. It feels li Yes, keeping the existing tenants in place during construction is certainly a significant constraint (along with the other constraints of structure, Logan heigh limits, Chapter 91). But, there still should be some aspiration here--constraints are...