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This debate appeared to be on course to totally take over the Open Thread for the foreseeable future. Thought it should have its own thread. Have at it boys.

Re: South Boston Development Looks like they wisely decided to nix the vinyl-siding-looking-stuff in the renderings.

Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place That's why God invented blackout shades. Btw, great photo, DowntownDave.

I hope it's just a very temporary placeholder. That said, this looks ridiculous. They should have put it in a outfitted shipping container. I think outfitted shipping containers could potentially revive the urban diner by placing them in empty or underutilized lots in cities. Boston could...

These are beautiful, Van. If these are successful, do you plan on doing an MBTA series?

Re: Novartis Expansion So does anyone know why every Kendal Sq project uses these pipe braces when building their foundations and Boston doesn't? It seems like an exclusively Kendal Sq thing.

Re: Fenway Center (One Kenmore, Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) The whole Turnpike Civic Vision experiment has been a complete debacle. Stop awarding air rights to politically connected bozos with no money or expertise.

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion This building is inoffensive on its narrow sides and extremely offensive on its wide sides. At ground level it's utter shit.

Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place That space at the the corner of Avenue de Lafayette and Washington Street has literally been empty for years. I don't think it's had a tenant since it became the Lafayette Corporate Center. Whenever I walk by it it makes me ponder the economics of empty...

Re: Hong Luk Project - Chinatown ^I've wondered the same thing so many times. I think it's also sad that of all the things being built in this current boom that this simple half-assed reconstruction of Essex's streetwall is pretty much the best thing being built.

Re: Residences at Kensington People have to understand that precast concrete exterior panels are basically the absolute cheapest shit available to clad a large steel-framed building. It's the vinyl siding of modern curtain wall construction. There's really no justifying using the stuff on...

Re: Residences at Kensington This building sucks on so many levels that it's difficult to fathom. It's mind-blowingly sucky.

Re: Mass Mental Health Center Redevelopment/ Brigham & Women's Mixed Use Complex I'm just generally annoyed with the non-stop proliferation of lawns in this city. Most of them, IMO, are useless or dysfunctional. And while I do appreciate the restoration of the formal axial plan in this case, I...

I prefer the AK-47. When you absolutely positively got to kill every mother fucker in the room... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQNYPYFq1c

Re: Mass Mental Health Center Redevelopment/ Brigham & Women's Mixed Use Complex Apparently there's no dysfunctional or aesthetically repulsive space in this city that cannot be fixed with a new urban lawn.

Nice find, kz! I just spent spent the last ten minutes going back and forth between 1938 and 2005 over what is today's Melneas Cass Blvd. I feel ill. 1938: 2005:

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion I don't see much Brutalism in this building really. I think it more resembles those buildings that came to dominate the PoMo period after the movement completely lost all pretense that it was still connected to its intellectual roots and simply...

Re: Waterside Place There is a maximum distance that the closest fire egress is allowed to be from the occupants of a floor. I'm guessing this building is so enormously wide that they had to spread the egresses to fall within that distance.

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLs-PkfUS2g

Re: Fenway Center (One Kenmore, Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) I re-read that article three times and I didn't see any mention--except in the headline--of this project starting in spring.