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I actually think this is a pretty cool project. It deals with a very difficult site: polluted and with a way overstructured building that would probably cost a fortune to get rid of, and figures out how to make those assets work for a business type that is growing in our area. The changes to the...

Re: Dock Square Parking Garage, 20 Clinton Street Shadows aren't an issue in this case, those will go on the Greenway and the Blackstone Block. It just seems like an easy fix, if you want this height, to flip it to the North Street side. North is a wider street so the height is more...

Re: Dock Square Parking Garage, 20 Clinton Street Presentations like this are so exasperating. Virtually no one is going to be viewing the building from mid air over the greenway (at least not until we get our flying cars). What does it look like from the ground? It totally looms over poor...

I'm not a huge fan of brick colored terra cotta, but I wonder about the decision to change the color--it makes the building read more uniformly and therefor larger. But generally, I think this is a great project and perfect for this area.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District I totally agree with your diagram as a planar view of one of the major areas the BCDC should be looking at. I also think that the revision of the "great hall" to have a larger read on the street is good. But, I also think that David Hacin's (and...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District ? what on earth does democracy have to do with this? The BCDC is a group of experts who are charged with reviewing the public realm of the city. David Hacin's comments are about the part of the building that directly connects to the public realm...

Roxbury in general seems to suffer from the super block more than other areas of Boston. Probably because they are government projects and people used the latest idea. It is sad that one of the most beautiful areas of Boston, with such great natural topography, has been so badly abused. I hope...

And that's why this doesn't seem like a good site for a hotel. The traffic issues are pretty much insurmountable. Even residential would have less traffic impact in this location. For this to happen, a lot of people at the BTD and in the community have to accept pretty compromised traffic.

Is it actually modular construction? We see so little of that in Boston. I wouldn't automatically characterize it as rubbish, from what I know it's not inherently better or worse than stick built and has some advantages from being assembled in a factory. The required layout space is one of...

Oh yeah. I'm sure that's on the way . . .

Pretty sure it's the relocated helipad. Going to be hideous and super visible. Saw it at a LMA meeting and was not impressed.

So not to City Hall Plaza?

I find myself actually wondering if the tan/beige/brown world of color might not be something we should all be thinking about. The light in Boston is usually pretty cool so all these grey and white buildings look even more cool and forbidding. Some warmth might help. I really can believe I am...

Oh, yes. I've seen the renderings and am familiar with LWA's other energy projects--they've carved out a nice niche in that area. It's going to be great to see it there all by itself for many years before the stuff around it starts going in. But I'm also enjoying how unusual it looks during...

Thanks for these. I haven't be by there in a while, this one is certainly growing. It is also pretty funny looking at this stage--looking forward to seeing it finished.

+1 We have an amazing history of construction here in Boston and we should expand that as we go forward. This is my biggest disappointment about Winthrop Square. There were some really forward thinking submissions but Handel and Millennium came in conservative and have gotten more so. Amazing...

While Landsmark is a complicated person, he provides a useful perspective on the BPDA board. I'm actually surprised by how piss poor Harvard's submission is. They should be embarrassed by the lack of content and poor graphics (they do have a pretty well regarded Urban Design program and the...

I think a lot of this is brand driven. Urban car dealerships just are not that common and the brands aren't set up to deal with it. All they can imagine is a suburban strip (see the new Maserati dealership on Soldiers Field Road that could be a Toyota or Hyundai dealership. Completely generic)...

I think the revisions to the tower are fine--maybe not my taste but they are interesting, with the exposed truss detail and the popped out corners. But the fat middle section--that hangs out over the podium--is just gross. It's fitting 10 pounds in a 5 pound sack. The question is whether the...

BC seems to have hired all of the architects BU has grown out of.