Being from Boston has always served me extremely well whenever travelling.......and I think Phoenix is America's ugliest city.
Still, there's no good reason why we can't have it all: livable neighborhoods AND tall buildings.
Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower
Shadows are not stationary. They move with the sun. No one ever seems to take this into consideration when the shadow issues are presented, pro OR con.
Re: Filene's
Are we being a bit hysterical here? A ninety-day moratorium isn't a death sentence. In that time anything could happen. Let's save the hysteria until February at least...and RIFLEMAN, stop shooting from the hip and antogonizing developers.
Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower
I have to agree....and there's the client's culpability as well. Some people have no aesthetic ethics at all. I'll take a client with bad taste over a client with no taste anytime. At least with bad taste, an effort has been made to acquire some...
Re: W Hotel
Are some of us confused about which is the "ugly, and which is the "nice"? I think the ALL glass is the nicer of the two facade components.
Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop
Let me chime in here with my two-cents' worth of profundity: With what appears to be a unique blend of beaux arts and art deco, this IS A VERY ATTRACTIVE BUILDING that anchors it's corner very well, and on those grounds alone, it...
Re: Congress St Garage is being sold.
^You're right, of course, ablarc. Haymarket Square was such an interesting warren of streets. Since that's been destroyed, our only hope is to improve upon what we have there now.