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We're seeing the problem of ethos rear its head at every scale. You need the public to believe in the competency of the institutions serving them or all sorts of necessary mores and customs start to fall apart. This is wildly simplistic but it seems to ring true: There are systems around the...

Stick, I think that's probably never going to happen. A certain university might have something to say about a 4-6 lane boulevard cutting through it at this point.

Huh, never had that problem--in my experience bus drivers will open the door if they can't see clear to the rear or if they can see someone waiting to alight from the rear door, which makes everyone happy 99%. Every once in a while I'll shout for the back door. I'm a fairly regular 1 and 77...

I think we'd see (even harsher) demarcation between being "inside the beltway" and outside. The Fenway, the South End, and East Cambridge/port would push their residential zoning all the way to the edges of the expressway and with everything to immediate outside would get a worse treatment than...

Weirdly reactionary take here. Where do you suppose the English word came from? Funnily enough, with the exception of the French Academy who would surely agree with you, mainstream linguistics is entirely descriptivist and got out of the diction policing business ages ago.

Two trivial observations: -This is an obvious maintenance-minded decision but I wish the doors had been painted with the orange bar. The discontinuity is displeasing, but it's not a big deal. -The station announcements have been re-recorded. The tell for me is that there's no gap before "Forest...

Good point lol.

I share some of your sentiments, but: 1) It's not a complete waste of money. Even if the physical plant on the island were given over to other programs of your choice, even recreation, people would still need a way to get to it and a bridge has higher throughput than boats, it just does. 4)...

I feel about parking lots getting turned into housing the way some people feel about tall buildings; this is the transformation I'm most looking forward to for the next cycle.

I think that's the clearest glass I've ever seen.

My sentiments exactly.

I'm reminded from DZ's photos how much I love Sert's work at Peabody Terrace and how much I hate at aluminum panel monstrosity in Central Square, the one they spent two years taking the panels off to put on even uglier panels.

I'm sorry but you guys are squabbling over 30 feet. You really think 3 floors would have made the difference, would have really broken the plateau? From the ground you can't tell and from far away I'd contend that the difference has a minimal effect. We pretty much all like height here but this...

This is excellent and I'd be okay to let them get started today. Iffffff I were inclined to be nitpicky in the most obnoxious way possible, I'd say I wished they didn't treat all four sides of the typical window bay with equally weighted corbelling. It'd be nice to see some flat granite sills...

Winfield, that first shot is money. Thanks, and welcome!

Luckily, no one cares.

It's nice enough but its nearly cubic volume does nothing for me.

I like that it's dark; I think there's room for Vader-y vibes in the skyline. There is something sinister about it which I enjoy.

Looks like it was assaulted by a particularly vindictive or stupid flock of birds. This design is not successful.

This didn't do much for me until the wood. It's going to get beat to hell out there but it adds the color this project needs to come to life.