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Re: The Victor Unless the Victor has altered its original plans, you can count on that street remaining a loss, both aesthetically and urbanistically. Nothing but MBTA egress, loading docks and a parking garage the whole way down. There will be a small retail space at the corner of Valenti and...

Re: Charles River Skatepark The whole history of this (still proposed) skate park is scandalous. Where's the accountability? It's nice that a TV station does a little filler story about it every 3 years or so, but the local press should have been all over this. This project really should have...

Re: South Boston Development JoeBoston1, you mention the lack of "connective tissue, no central gathering square, no beloved common space." I'm not arguing with you, but what neighborhoods in Boston have these things today? Very few, if any, by my estimation. Maybe you can elaborate on what...

Re: Parcel 9 - The Greenway What's with the single/double-story low-rise component of all these proposals? What a ridiculous waste of space. In the name of what exactly?

This is not a totally fair comparison, seeing that 1996 was 17 years ago and this Shanghai before/after spans 26 years , but still, I think it's an interesting contrast. Shanghai 26 yrs ago vs now, from http://io9.com/these-photos-of-shanghais-cityscape-were-taken-just-26-1077772930:

I've actually been working on a database that would supplement the board and serve as a permanent and exhaustive archive of information on individual projects. I planned on rolling it out slowly to test how much bandwidth it ate up and how much interest/participation it generated. Initially this...

An uncompleted 45-story building in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas has been inhabited by as many as 2500 squatters. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/inside-caracas-tower-of-david-the-worlds-tallest-slum

Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown I don't know why you're looking to Mexico for examples of how it may have been when you could've looked a block away to 125 Summer St. which is more appropriate and certainly as bad. Or, for a more recent example, maybe you could've looked a few...

This smaller living unit stuff is totally nuts to me, especially in light of the high cost of these units. There's plenty of room in this city to build many thousands of normal sized units if only the zoning would allow it.

Re: Liberty Mutual Expansion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE

Interesting, data. Reminds me a lot of Rudolph's unrealized plans for the Lower Manhattan Expressway:

I knew I wasn't the only nerd keeping track of this stuff in Sketchup. This is a very rough massing model I've been maintaining of a lot of the new proposals (grey) in the pipeline: Today: Tomorrow?

Re: $1 billion development proposed to reshape downtown Quincy I believe these are the buildings under construction here (the Kilroy and Granite Trust Lofts): pre-construction:

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower Great report, dd. You're the man.

Re: Berklee Expansion Plans I didn't know they included street-level retail, and a good amount at that. I can totally live with the questionable cladding in light of that. And who knows, that cladding actually might end up kinda interesting. At least it aint precast.

Re: Berklee Expansion Plans Yeah, this material looks a lot like industrial corrugated metal. Initially this design was supposed to incorporate fancy custom-manufactured gold-colored metallic panels. There was a video put out by Berklee posted up-thread that featured William Rawn, the...

Re: Residences at Kensington The Washington Street lowrise portion of this abortion is absolutely appalling. I cannot believe how bad it is. If the mayor/BRA has any integrity at all the developer will be forced to fix it, a la the Hotel Commonwealth.

How about Shitty Building Bingo? I can think of lots of squares, like, demolishes 100+ yr old building, or has above-ground parking garage, or has precast exterior, or is a Fallon development (instant winner?), etc., etc. I actually think that the article and its comments, so far, are pretty...

Re: Fenway Center (One Kenmore, Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7) It would be nice if we citizens of Massachusetts could see the actual terms of our 99 year lease. Then we wouldn't have to speculate as to what the hell is going on from half-assed written newspaper articles.