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    Worst Empty Parcel

    Please choose one. Polls close 11:59pm on Monday Feb. 25. A list of all previous winners can be found here: http://www.archboston.org/awards/ In no particular order: 1. Kenmore Square parking lot by BU 2. Park Plaza Castle on Arlington Street 3. Lot at Dartmouth and Newbury 5. Seaport...
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    Worst Proposed Development

    Please choose one. Polls close 11:59pm on Monday Feb. 25. A list of all previous winners can be found here: http://www.archboston.org/awards/ In no particular order: 1. Forest Hills Village 2. D St Parking Garage 3. 45 Stuart Street 4. Fenway Center 5. South Coast Rail 6. No Award
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    Best Proposed Development

    Please choose one. Polls close 11:59pm on Monday Feb. 25. A list of all previous winners can be found here: http://www.archboston.org/awards/ In no particular order: 1. Filene's Millennium Tower 2. Cape Cod rail extension 3. Ink Block 4. Northeastern University's New IMP 5.Edgar...
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    Best New Development of 2012

    Please choose one. Polls close 11:59pm on Mon, Feb. 25. A list of all previous winners can be found here: http://www.archboston.org/awards/ In no particular order: 1. MassArt tower 2. Isabella Stuart Gardner Expansion 3. Os Gemeos mural on greenway 4. North Bank Pedestrian Bridge 5...
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    Hall of Shame (CHOOSE 3)

    REMEMBER TO CHOOSE 3! Polls close 11:59pm on Mon Feb. 25. A list of all previous winners can be found here: http://www.archboston.org/awards/ In no particular order: 1. Warren Towers 2. McCarthy Overpass 3. Landmark Center 4. Former Middlesex County Court House and Jail 5. Melnea...
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    Boston done in Sim City 4!

    Lol! Must be a protest. Or maybe there's a cart down there giving away free cupcakes.
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    Avalon Exeter | 77 Exeter Street | Back Bay

    Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center The Hynes was pretty much totally rebuilt in the late 80's by Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood (the original building looked essentially like a space-aged bowling alley). I guess its skin makes it inarguably PoMo, but also present is a definite riff on...
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    The level of development going on in Kendal Sq. right now is simply amazing. I wish every project wasn't crammed into one monolithic general Cambridge thread. It makes them too hard to follow, and fully appreciate.
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    🔷 Open Thread

    The Gotham of the first Dark Knight movie was based on Chicago, but was more fantasy than reality, heavily augmented with fictitious elements. The extensive monorail system is a one example of those elements. For the second movie they decided to take a new gritty, reality-based approach to...
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    Hall of Fame (CHOOSE 3)

    REMEMBER TO CHOOSE 3! Polls close 11:59pm on Monday Feb. 25. A list of all previous winners can be found here: http://www.archboston.org/awards/ In no particular order: 1. Post Office Square 2. Old State House 3. New State House 4. Park Street Church 5. Old John Hancock Tower 6...
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    Best Photo Vote (CHOOSE 3)

    REMEMBER TO CHOOSE 3! Polls close 11:59pm on Monday Feb. 25. A list of all previous winners can be found here: http://www.archboston.org/awards/ In no particular order: 1. Sellout98 - Modernism of Park St 2. Gmack24 - Blue Lights 3. Piggiston - Snowy Marina 4. Piggiston - Snowy Harbor...
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    Best New Development of 2012

    I like the North Bank Pedestrian Bridge here.
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    Worst New Development of 2012

    B.U. East Campus Center? Oooh, and also 800 Huntington Ave.
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    Worst Empty Parcel

    Landmark Center parking lot
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    Worst Proposed Development

    Jacob Wirth's tower. Yet another car-oriented downtown highrise with an above-ground garage. Also, Fenway Center.
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    Best Proposed Development

    Charles River Skate Park Samuels/Weiner DOT Parcel 12-15 (Mass. Ave + Boylston)
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    Hall of Shame

    One Exeter Plaza Rutherford Ave BUMC Ambulatory Center
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    Hall of Fame

    State Services Center Southwest Corridor Park Blackstone Block BB Fens
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    Best Photo

    Sixten: Piggiston: BostonUrbEx: Boston02124 KZ1000ps: gmack24: dzh22:
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    Portside at Pier One | 29 Marginal Street (Pier 1, Pier 5) | East Boston

    Re: Portside at Pier One The articles refer to Portside at Peir One as including 176 units. The original proposal was for almost 500. Is this just phase one of a larger project or has the project been dramatically downsized?

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