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Anyone else having a hard time imagining the green as depicted? It's very much a part of our vernacular to see patinated metal panels, but that's much bluer sort of aquamarine color. Is that what's intended here? I'm not sure how much I would like this if it were just Fenway green aluminum...

I should have been clear, I don't want a dumb bronze statue that doesn't force the viewer to think anything besides "duhhh all cops are heroes" or whatever. I'm appreciative of subtlety; this is nowhere near as thoughtful as the Vietnam memorial or, for example, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews...

Re: Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Amazing to me how many times a day the way I view myself along the populist-elitist axis changes. Sometimes from thread to thread on this site alone over the course of a single morning. Rover and JSic, I see your point: the people...

Re: Boston Bombing Memorial | Boylston st | Back Bay Meticulously crafted, maybe. But nothing about this connects me to the event it's supposed to commemorate. It looks like any other bit of street art, without a plaque or knowing the location can anyone really look at this and know that it's a...

Love the color. I wish it were a touch more metallic but it looks high-quality to me. Eye of the beholder I guess.

There are two productive kinds of contribution to a place like this: one can submit a pitch like BusesAintTrains or one can provide substantive critiques and useful information like F-Line and others. You are permitted to make off-the-cuff observations and voice your opinion, but this isn't...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Come on, a single half-court to me does not really fulfill the vocation of a city park. We've learned nothing from the planning blunders of the last century. Does it not seem like a death sentence, however protracted, as soon as one begins to say...

The contrarian in me wants to pipe up and say that the garage is not the worst thing to happen to this city. It's cool in a metabolist sort of way--reminds me of walking under the building that rings Kottbusser Tor in Berlin on the Adalbertstrasse. That being said, I won't shed a tear to see it go.

I always assumed they had to keep re-opening them to avoid striking last-second passengers. Either way the solution is, if you have to sprint to make it you should probably just wait for the next one.

It doesn't help that people keep running through them as they close, causing shock to the mechanisms. Last week I was on a train where someone ran through and jammed the door as it was closing. One of the door leafs bugged out and refused to stay closed, which forced the single operator to walk...

Rover is correct. All of our tower dreams will come to pass; the question is whether any of us will be around to see them. The argument over height doesn't make a ton of sense to me because it's clear that height is one of the things you solve for in a very complex equation that approximates the...

Re: The Whitney Hotel (née John Jeffries House) | 142-170 Charles Street | Beacon Hil Really sharp work here. The pointing is a little prominent for my taste but this is a huge win.

Wellington lot they check a couple of times a day and transit police sweep once or twice a week (I've seen actual tickets for more general violations like expired inspection stickers) but the enforcement is not very rigorous. Last time I checked right after the price hike last fall it was...

Yes but will you like the brown? Obviously not as intense of a condition but the walls of a certain central artery tunnel come to mind... To be clear, I know this will come down to a maintenance effort. As long as it's the shiny new thing on campus, the owner or the university will keep it...

I'm here to nitpick: SSX and NSRL are both necessary and one cannot replace the other. Anyway, tower is nothing special but build it anyway.

I also recall F-Line explaining a while back why a spur of the OL won't work out very well. I'll leave them to fill in the details but what I remember, the RL as the closest analogue happens to have a close to perfect balance between the spacings/headways of the trunk line and that of the...

The white here gives me the feeling that there's wrapping paper over the paneling. I don't think I hate it but it feels a little off right now. I'm sure it'll grow on me. Also like to congratulate the designers on a very responsible massing. The shorter Columbus Ave volume fits in nicely, and...

This would be a huge security risk so I can't see a company allowing this. If you could tap without authorization by the device owner you could initiate a number of harmful interactions, like spamming fake transactions to drain a card, or spoofing a reader to get user information, or sending...

Not a direct answer to your question but I believe the NFC framework at least for android allows for interactions when the phone is unlocked, without requiring a further unlock, depending on the type of interaction. I don't know too much about this but it seems as though phone-locked or...

That UI looks totally unprofessional.