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Not necessarily. There is no intent on replacing the main original entrance and I don't believe (correct me if I'm wrong) any intent on behalf of this project to extensively change the layout of the entrance to South Station. It just seems like a missed opportunity (especially on the Atlantic...

The passageway to the train concourse appears pretty narrow and tucked away on the Atlantic Ave side. There is really nothing depicted that implies "major train station here." Surely some signage is planned but overall it appears they've reserved the "grand effect" for the arches and ceiling...

By what logic, as you say, was it a bad move? It would be worth explaining (at the bare minimum).

While they would be a mere mile apart, the locations offer completely different settings that likely wouldn’t see them in direct competition with each other. Ritz also chose to move out of the Newbury Street location as the building no longer was able to compete with luxury hotel amenities...

And that great lighting scheme on the LA tower.

"Blending" in was never the intention. Does it really need to? It still works brilliantly.

This is one of those buildings that took some time to imagine how it would fit into the cityscape — from the BU campus to the Charles River. Now that it’s nearly finished and enough time has passed, I just cannot picture Boston without it (in a good way). It rewards the curious onlooker from...

I really wish Boston was getting a few pre-war revivals — they really are timeless when executed as well as those examples from NYC. Hell, even West Palm beach is getting one.

Small, well done infill project I walked by today in Georgetown.

I’m not sure what point you are making here. “DC dislikes brick” — who is DC? Plenty of brick areas in DC. Plenty of cobblestones in Nantucket.

The recently overhauled Franklin Park in DC seems to have struck the right balance without relying on brick: https://dcist.com/story/21/09/24/franklin-park-renovation-homelessness-camping/

Something about the abundance of brick in plazas inevitably looks worn and drab. Given that City Hall has large brick sections already, it seems foreboding in this setting.

A good palm tree here or there would add some humor in bleak February. It will survive too!

They need to go back to the drawing board on this one. What a disaster.

I don’t hate it but it looks like anything you’d see in Austin, Charlotte, Nashville these days (and leads the mind to thinking about those places, at least for me, over Boston or a city in the NE).

I think they are intentional considering that the pattern on the baseline aligns with the upper floor facades. I don’t remember seeing that in the renderings though.

The mirroring effected of the facades from the lower levels to the cantilevered floor above is a unique touch.

I think this one is going to turn out to be a lot more visually pleasing than the renderings let on.

Such a great angle!