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Re: One Kenmore (Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) ^Yawkey is too far from both Kenmore and Fenway for a dedicated connection, We're probably talking a ground-level pedestrian path. Will Yawkey be getting a second platform? Any chance of it being moved closer to Brookline ave for better connections...

^czsz, you chose your pictures very, very carefully...

^I thought it's illegal now because three-deckers are too dense?

Re: Rebirth at river's edge An orange line station right next to the site looks like it would be more useful to both the new development and to the existing neighborhood than Wellington.

^What's the gray highrise poking up behind the dorm?

^Pretty building.

We need buildings over the Pike, not parks.

Wow, terracotta? That's daring.

Where's that?

It does a good job of picking up three salient horizontal lines from its neighbors. A simple thing like that can do wonders for the newcomer blending in, and it's surprisingly rare. No extra height is necessary; in fact, it would be even better without the top segment, or with a more...

Re: Mandarin Oriental ^May it never be.

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Is there any T commuter line (even Fairmount?) whose timetable makes it a viable option for local trips?

Re: South Station Tower - Full Steam Ahead! What I find comforting in that picture is that the streetwalls on Boylston and Huntington were never ruined so much as never properly created in the first place. It's good that's slowly being remedied.

It's particularly sweet that this one is on top of Christian Science...

unterbau, I agree: both those examples looked better before.

Re: South Station Tower - Full Steam Ahead! ^Looks like pulling into South Station will have all the charm of pulling into Penn Station...

Re: Filene's ^'Avenir' is just plain French.

^Yeah, I never thought Paris was a REAL city. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

Re: New Street, East Boston multi-use project Noise.

Because an iron-clad height limit is the premise of my proposal. Urbanistically, I want Mass Ave to be a boulevard with a consistent street wall, of the sort that is already defined intermittently by the old apartment buildings (maybe my proposed heights are off, but that's the idea). To make...