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It does, they've just chosen not to do a pip concrete core. Not sure why that decision was made--ten years ago every building I saw was built that way the pip core seems to be much more common now. All I can think is that there is some space saving that makes it worth it on this very tight site...

New Thai restaurant, Kala Thai Cookery, in the space at the corner of Hannover and Blackstone Street across from the Public Market. There have been a few restaurants in here in recent years and I hope this one makes it. This food is really good and Thai is a great addition to the area.

I'm afraid I disagree. 451 Marlborough is one of my favorite recent Boston buildings--it is so contextual and at the same time utterly of it's moment. It's a building that really does a good job of understanding the Back Bay (unsurprisingly, it was reviewed by the Back Bay Architectural...

107 is owned and used by the NPS.

I went by there earlier today and stood on the curb baffled by the expanse of pale green paint. It was so unexpected. But as a first step to fixing that road it's great.

Me too and I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. I saw something very simplistic. Simplistic not simple. So maybe in your face like Koolhaas but not the real elegance Mecanoo brings to their buildings. I wish it was. It needs a lot of work.

I'd love to see a picture. But my expectations for a TAT building are not high. They must have a great price point given the amount of work (and fairly high profile, with the Raffles Hotel) that we are seeing from them.

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Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

This. The underside may actually be one of my favorite parts of this project (after the shaping of the vertical addition). It is unusual and interesting and yet somehow manages to serve as a backdrop for the historic copper cornice. A bunch of these wouldn't work in the city but one really...

Elkus Manfredi, Stantec, and CBT. Should be some kind of moratorium. I totally agree we have great firms in town that should be getting the work. Could have phrased it better (and we have some real dogs by out of town firms).

Re: Residences at 399 Congress St (formerly Madison Seaport Hotel) Well, it's Rafael Vinoly not Stantec. He's not my favorite architect by a long shot but he's in a different class. I'd be thrilled if we could get some more out of town architects. The best things we see in the Seaport (Parcel...

Planning is all well and good. Even if it is codified as zoning, which isn't happening for recent plans in JP and South Boston, the ZBA is granting the vast majority of variances so planning and zoning in Boston are just not that meaningful. (I've heard the number 85% approval for variances in...

What is Boston's architectural review board? Does she mean the BCDC (which met last night), which certainly aren't the last word on building design, their purview is public realm, not building design. ETA: I'm being facetious, but I do get tired of the lack of specificity that we see in the...

It's such a nice presentation (justification?) until page 12 " Modulate residential mass to capture additional space." In other words, fill up every damn inch of space regardless of all that stuff we said before. Oh, and BTW, look at our driveway! Look at it! It's right here! Isn't it nice! Sigh.

I agree with you about crossing the alley. I'm sure they are making an argument about exit cores and saving money, but it would be a better project if it respected the context a bit more. Otherwise, I think it makes a lot of sense. It's higher than I would expect, but Kilmarnock can probably...

Wow, Pavement looks great. That is a real improvement to that area.

It is an incredibly cool building, one of the few ropewalks left in the US. It has defied developers for years--I think it would have been great start up space or something similar that could have embraces the crazy length. But even with tax credits, the financing seems to have not work out. (I...

Ah, that's where it is. Honestly, I kind of like it. Mostly because it isn't gray. I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

And there is a Stop and Shop a few hundred feet away that's about to get a major make over. Roche Bros just doesn't make a lot of sense here--and there are plenty of places it would.