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I think it's bad in the way that you can't make an album out of all singles. I'm also on record as not liking many of the individual things being tried here, but smashing them all together does not help at all. The architecture is mostly trash. I agree that it's good urbanism, if we limit the...

Re: Mass + Main | 415 Massachusetts Avenue | Cambridge I hope there's a breakfast place in the ground floor retail called CTRL-ALT-DELI.

You see luxury Stick, I see tacky. It's probably too late to lament the fact that what passes for luxe is what normal people imagine rich people live like. Put my grave next to Adolf Loos's so we can roll together.

Stilts are eh, notch is fine. The cladding is weak though, imo.

I miss street addresses.

I don't think Ari has nearly the depth of expertise F-Line has.

Mike, come on. Parents love their children but this ain't it. It's closer to the confusion around the iPhone X. Apple says "ten", some people say "ten", more people say "ecks." Except Apple, this isn't. If people are mostly talking about how they don't even know how to pronounce the name...

Re: North-South Rail Link Can't wait for the term 'millennial' to die outright. Millennials now comprise people in their thirties. We are more progressive, and care more about public transit and infrastructure. It seems to me that it's a safer assumption to make that some old, out of touch...

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I agree that the tower has Treehouse potential, but I am not particularly taken with that project. I don't hate color or even a lot of it. I think these guys should ask Sauerbruch and Hutton for pointers.

Didn't say materials, I said gestures. It's two materials but it's still busy. It's interesting if interesting means "compelling to look at", which fine, but that's not the same as being nice to look at.

I can see why you would say neo-Corbusian--looks like the Jaoul houses on a bad trip. But I don't see anything nice about this. It's a mess, I don't see any two windows that are the same, we all know what's going to happen with that penthouse, and I admire your maintenance of hope that they...

2.1 is fine, appropriate for the context but pretty boring. It'll blend in right away. 2.2 is the one I'm excited for; I think they could build it as rendered today. 2.3 is a mess. It's too much to expect that a tower wouldn't be so chunky, and it's the right gesture to emphasize verticality...

I just don't see it as that bad. I don't see how anyone would focus on the walkway as the design failure when the hulking parking garage is right there.

Well even replacement and no expansion is an efficiency boost right? Fewer breakdowns and shorter dwell times because of wider doors and more standing room? I'd rather them get rid of dying trains than add congestion.

It'll keep the rain off. I think there are more important places to expend design energy.

Couldn't get a clear picture, but there is a new Orange Line car under wraps at the Wellington Yard. Not sure when it arrived but I caught a glimpse this morning. Is delivery underway?

Haha I think you mean re-entrainment. Auto-correct nails the best of us.

There are many places on the ground from which this looks taller than the Pru, and even from the Middlesex Fells it basically looks even. It's not the game-changer we call for but I'll take it.

Does anyone know what's going to happen to the vacant lot adjacent to this? More of the same, presumably? Wouldn't be a bad place to get some more height in Dudley.