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As with all fashion fads, it has reached the extreme end of its shelf-life. It's become the 'bell-bottoms' version of design (I can't even call it architecture). Yet I'm afraid to imagine the next fad. BTW I'm also choking on the unrelenting use of brick panels that show no imagination or...

Oh....no. What an embarrassment. There's nothing here to redeem so far. Even shutters and window boxes for flowers would be an improvement. A new definition of "puerile."

Should have been built on a back street, where it could have been hidden by a group of decent-looking structures. Those blank walls! Maybe it's actually a telephone switching station from the 50's.

The O'Neill makes no pretense. It's pride is inside among the stacks and reading rooms. It is a bastion for research on the slope. It doesn't pretend to be any thing other than it is. I like the earliest iterations of Gothic at BC, but the later bastardizations IMO are really terrible, trite...

In my opinion it has to do with proportions of the windows, height to width and the use of an odd number of bays and an odd number of stories per bay. Atlantic Wharf divides its fat side into five bays but spoils the proportions by having four stories, instead of 3, in each bay. Also the bays...

More than anything else MLK has been making us think for the past 60+ years. MLK is more than a man. He is an idea and an ideal. That's what I think this memorial also represents: the idea of embracing all people and the ideal of love. We need to keep the idea and ideal alive, thus the BLM...

I'm not defending the Archdiocese, since I did leave the priesthood there 11 years ago, by my own choice. Just trying to set the record straight(er). The Holy Trinity debacle was fraught with ideological/theological/political issues. Many of the objective facts on both sides were not accurately...

Actually, The Marist Fathers and Brothers, who served Our Lady of Victories since 1883, have withdrawn from ministry in the parish and the Archdiocese of Boston accepted their request for the closure of the parish. The Marist Fathers owned the land and the buildings and they were the ones who...

If those walls could talk!

First Holy Trinity German Church, the monster of the South End. Then Immaculate Conception on Harrison Ave...at least the exterior remains at the expense of a truly singular interior. Now this. It's as if the developers are so anti-religion that they can't wait to destroy anything of...

RE: Tiffany Windows. The full display that was intended is not only still there in completion, but has been fully restored with new, clear lexan protective panes. The blanks you see on the first floor are merely covers while the restoration was being done several years ago. The clear glass...

A total lack of imagination at the time. Perhaps 20 years later and the success of Quincy Market would have pulled this area along. Sad.

I agree. I remember the area...it was semi-industrial, dumpy, dirty, grimy, and most of the buildings were not fully occupied. No one lived there, but instead the area served as a reminder of better days when Scollay, Dock and Haymarket Squares were a small commercial hub left behind by the...

Actually the train yard was where the Pru complex is. And it needed no decking over tracks since they were long gone, but rather was built on a huge underground garage that had to make room for US 90. What eventually would need decking was US 90 which left holes that were eventually filled with...

Not to mention the blocks of residences on Mass Ave that were eliminated for the new church owned apartment block on one side and the cleared plaza/entrance on the other side.

The good news: few in autos will notice this bland excuse for architecture...they'll be fighting the classic Kenmore Sq. traffic in both directions. The bad news: every pedestrian who looks up from the ground will wonder, "What happened? and Why?" The sad news: too many won't care since the...

I was thinking the same thing...match the height of the white building across the street at the corner (formerly a Sylvester Stallone attempt at a nightclub).

Height, check. Expansive windows, check. Balconies, check. Brick, too orange...needs more of a brown tone, then the brown trim won't stand out so much. Sufficient respect for old facades, check. I also wish for a cornice of some sort, quiet, yet dignified to finish the top.

No, I am arguing against the design of a playground that is gimmicky and not really serving basic activities kids really enjoy.

My two cents: Overall plan is good. However, get rid of the gimmicky areas that will have little or no meaning without laborious explanation: 1: Congress St. Civic Space? It's the bathrooms, Harry! And they're in an ugly bunker. 4: Adventure Play Slope?? How long will this complicated area...