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Jeff, I get it. The trouble is that those who rethink such important areas are too often looking for novelty rather than creating public spaces that have legitimate limited use. The irony is I predicted what would happen when Copley was redone this last time. First, I knew that using slate in...

I know! I can recall the triangles too. Please God, no more iterations!! Just replace all the dead trees with a consistent species. I'm sorry that some great ones, like lindens, have fallen out of favor. I really dislike the plane tree species.

I love this building. It's a great foil to the ones on either side, with enough difference in the facade treatment as to distract from the uniform height. And it's not another glass box, thank you. (I wonder if the window-washers have a powerful lobby to create job security in the seaport...

Philip Johnson's post-modern, "parody" architecture have a short shelf life on the aesthetics scale. He clearly worked too long into his dotage and admitted that he was basically an architect-whore who gave clients in spades whatever they wanted. Thus he dumped hundreds of misused and fake...

From fascinating, to interesting, to tolerable, to ugly/boring, to less boring. Once again a building that could have enlivened a commercial street is damned with faint praise. They already allowed the unusual Nike store which is a fake facade hiding a several-story atrium of displays.

And maybe views from the tower would be impeded...commanding higher rents if free and clear?

How I miss Guiffre's fish market. Going into Salem Street at that corner, the sights and smells told you where you were, and the shops along Salem St., nearly all gone now, were as exciting as Haymarket on a weekend. At least I have the memories of an authentically Italian North End. It is hard...

I always hated that building....saw it being built. It represented the pinched, confining, often one-sided, corrupt justice system for the majority of those prosecuted. And it was a blight on the surrounding neighborhood. If they can't transform it altogether, then don't waste money cleaning...

More glass, more windows, less masonry to screw up and reduce to aluminum panels. Large windows also give the impression of luxury. Look at the Hilton near the Pru. What a sorry excuse for a building, let alone a hotel, thrown up with precast concrete, tiny windows and ugliness all around...so...

I can see this as the start of another "Cambridge Crossing" development which blends perfectly with Assembly Square. And that could be just the start....move out some of the industrial zone to a more remote area and build. Of course the whole of Mystic Ave going into Medford Square is ripe for...

A handsome development IMO, due to the massing and proportions of the towers. A relief from the blocky towers that are filling the area.

Wow, this is worth going through...the pics are scattered throughout. It's great to see the effort to fill a weird space and to keep the street's curve. If built as illustrated it will be a great addition. Only one regret: the small shops it will be replacing will be missed, though I'm not...

I wonder the reaction when Zucker gets his way and tears down the Shreve building and a couple of more next to it on Arlington/Boylston to replace it with an equally bland superblock of modernism? That's one corner even more significant than Kenmore as it sit's adjacent to Arlington St. Church...

I hope the interior finishes are as delightful to the eye as the exterior. After all, students and teachers will barely enjoy the exterior.

This is what this area has needed forever!

A building of distinction.

There are distinct advantages to being merely middle class with little disposable income!

Nice. Killing us with Gothic kindness. I suppose someday, someone will appreciate the Yale/Duke treatment, no matter how artificial. I actually like the contrast that the Brutalist facade provided.

A much better design than say, One Dalton. I know, most here swoon over its height, but that's about it. It's tall, boring, black, and has no pedestrian/streetscape interest whatsoever. It screams "I'm an exclusive enclave for a very small, select few." The Hook proposal, at least on paper...

Last time I went up it was 50 cents, I believe.