Search results

how can this board fault the architects of the Hotel Commonwealth when Archboston members continue flog the same "shadow" and "median strip" tropes after 358 pages of repeating themselves in this thread? Time for some new material......

You still have to mow it, though. Or do you? A truly organic lawn.

Very cool -- hopefully Harvard doesn't renege like they did with their LEED Platinum Blackstone project, where a couple years after construction they flattened the bioswale and replaced the no-mow grasses with traditional lawn grasses so they could keep it in with the (unsustainable) traditional...

Most definitely worth checking out. more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/13620802@N08/sets/72157624079436802/ and in the same neighborhood you can check out the newspaper house

Point taken, but maximized public transit connection will only help this project. They will still be competing with Connecticut for the car/luxobus crowd, but could monopolize the demographic of households with no car, or less than one car per driver, or people who want to drink and gamble and...

I imagine casinos bank much more on middle-income bourgeousie splashouts than high rollers, and also don't forget all the low-paid employees need to get to the place too

it looks like there is an off/on ramp in the center off in the near distance

It is so confusing, but my wife and I have our own mnemonic device that works: button card money button card card. It has a nice and memorable rhythm when said aloud, and thankfully when I'm struck blindside by the first of the month i am able to add a buck or two quickly so i can get to forest...

i personally detest the bus riders who practically sprint to the door when it pulls up to be the first person on, then fumble through their purse/wallet to find their crumbled up charlie ticket so they can add enough nickels to it to bring it up to fare, while a dozen people stand there with the...

The devil you say-- it was a conceit of the engineers that stuck a dam at the mouth of the Charles.... In Olmsted's day the Muddy River was tidal, and that tidal influx/outflow were seized as natural infrastructure for stormwater detention, treatment and release.

T Wharf was was north of and parallel to Long Wharf. Originally it was wholly separate, eventually the gap between them was filled to about the halfway point (where Marriott Long Wharf is now). As I understand it, it was removed in the 70s or 80s, I always assumed it was probably done in...

http://www.utiledesign.com/ Scroll down to the September 2009 update, there is a photo of the concrete formwork mockups.

Your point about Ginkgo trees is good-- I recall a very urban planting of them at one of my alma maters (almas mater?), outside of a contentious Eisenman building. They were stressed beyond belief and did not necessarily thrive on their neglect. I've noticed this with alot of street plantings...

I second. Second most useless is the number of "1000 footers".

Isn't a consistent streetwall the worst possible thing to do if that is the case? At least now the pocket plaza helps to foil the wind a little by breaking up the streetwall, like a snowfence. Fill it in and it will be even windier in front of the mandarin.

UMass has a +3 Masters of Architecture program. So you are looking at 7 years of schooling before you get the degree, but an architecture bachelor's degree weighs about the same as a job application to Starbucks, so its only an extra year. Plus having that non-architecture Bachelor's degree...

Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 this is so stupid, but in Boston's defense: We are way out in front on public transportation; symphony orchestra, the pops, sports culture (sox celts marathon, not that i give a whoop), universities. and give me the pixies over the grateful...

Kunstler pisses this proponent off, as well. And besides wouldn't any brilliant, charismatic speaker or writer just be another ivory tower elitist snob, with their communiss train systems and unpatriotic small building lots.

Quick Fix: The Boston Herald The Cambridge Globe

Re: Fenway HoJo I found a great landscape solution for this building