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Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown No offense, to any of you giving even a modicum of praise to this thing, but have you seen other buildings, anywhere? But this is just a residential tower, you'll say, or it's just like this everywhere else too. True on both counts, but excuses...

Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown Good try. My response was in regards to any potential discussion of world-class architecture existing in this city. Your response only illustrates my point: discussion here is of buildings, not architecture; there's a difference between the two.

I agree. Though the new buildings are quite terrible on their own, I think this approach to dealing with historic buildings is fantastic; what preservationists might call the contrasting approach. It almost makes me focus even more on this building and its sort of Dutch-inspired stepped...

Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown Why are we even discussing cities in the northern part of the Western Hemisphere? This is not where architecture happens. Of course no one said New York was proliferating brilliant works either; it's not. But there are cities that are far...

Re: 75 Ames St. (Broad Institute Expansion) Kendall Sq. I'm sorry, you said something about beautiful facades? Where are they? I'm thinking you must have been intending to post in a different thread. Not that it particularly matters, since skin is not architecture, but the outside of this...

Re: Congress Street Garage Development Even as a joke that's a reasonably valid point. I'm open to walking slower, but I'm waiting for things within the elevation of maybe negative 10' to positive 20' from the ground plane to give me a reason to do so.

Re: Congress Street Garage Development Your point essentially already illustrates that the good parts are behind you just as quickly as well.

This is great. I've wanted to do this for some time, but I'm honestly just too lazy. So thank you. You've should add Berklee's two buildings, the recently-approved Parcels 12-15 proposal, and Avalon Exeter Street. I think that covers Back Bay, right?

Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place Yes. This is a fact.

Re: Fenway Center (One Kenmore, Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) Not that this is news, but I saw Mr. Rosenthal today, walking by the common with an armful of presentation boards for the project. I thought about stopping him, but I was already late for work. At least things appear to be moving, in...

Re: Menino plans renovations to BPL's Johnson Wing Protection for historic buildings comes from local governments, such as Boston Landmarks Commission, NOT the federal level. You're statement that the McKim, Mead, & White building is untouchable is true, but listing on the National Register...

Re: MassDOT Pike Parcels 12 - 15 | Boylston St. + Mass. Ave Not that I don't agree with folks about the shady nature of this progression, but I have to say I'm relieved this thing won't be getting built. It was terrible. Furthermore, as a student of the BAC I'm shocked that a school that has...

I don't entirely mind it, but it does kind of remind me of a lame, flattened, scenographic version of Torre Plaça Europa by Roldan + Berengue in Barcelona. That building at least has some depth and perhaps a bit more of a sense of actual habitation. The Watermark is just like pretty much every...

Re: 75 Ames St. (Broad Institute Expansion) Kendall Sq. I like this building quite a bit, but it is fat. I have the chance to see this thing from all over Cambridge and Boston and, unlike Liberty Mutual, which has some slim angles, this one is really substantial in all dimensions. On the...

The small opaque panels represent the floor plates in the four-story, curtain-walled base. That is why they have shown up again on just the north corner where the undulating cutaway floor plate for the performance area meets the exterior curtain wall. You can see these in the renderings. I...

Re: Millennium Tower - Filene's Sorry, but who from the development team or the City of Boston ever suggested the tower would be under construction by now anyway? What recent news has suggested that the start of the construction has been further delayed and won't be this summer or fall as was...

Re: Christian Science Church Center Renovation/ New Towers ^Agreed. We all know the examples of projects like Columbus Center that failed to come to fruition, but look around the city right now at all that is happening. Some of the current wave of projects have been in the works for nearly a...

Re: Christian Science Church Center Renovation/ New Towers I know we like to stay on topic here, but the image and caption accompanying the Globe article is amazing: http://bostonglobe.com/business/2013/01/23/carpenter-will-build-tower-christian-science-plaza/CRTOUUXAb4NdKoQ3gIn7KL/story.html...

Re: Christian Science Church Center Renovation/ New Towers The two towers mentioned here are the ones shaded yellow to the north of the publishing house. I wonder why the contract for their own tower adjoining the Sunday school building was not also given to Carpenter. I imagine that if...

Re: 75 Ames St. (Broad Institute Expansion) Kendall Sq. My father, who works for the glass contractor, says they've been assembling all the windows and curtain wall in their factory for the past several weeks and that it should be heading to the site this week or next. Looking forward to...