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FYI: Google Earth has updated the 3d imagery to reflect changes current to a few months ago.

I remember an excess of headlines involving fights and shootings from that place, but I guess you have to take the good with the bad.

Very interesting photos- My wild guess would be that they result from the building owners possessing rights to sidewalk frontage that would allow them to erect signs like that (especially because in the last photo the sign is positioned on the crease between two different pavements) . If or why...

Great to see this trend taking off in GB. Next step is built-out stations and rapid transit frequencies.

What a beautiful city.

I mean, you are correct, but it's very difficult for a developer to inject "soul" into a big development that is designed souly to make money. Things change, so maybe eventually, but for right now Assembly is doomed to be a cluster of chain restaurants and shoe stores.

I would definitely prefer a combined LRT transit/footbridge over the harbor which would be such a great resource and also probably make Boston the only city in the US where the airport is literal walking distance from the downtown. I think there would probably be a lot of issues regarding...

The glass on this thing seems to be a real wildcard- blue, green, silver- I can't figure it out. It'll be great to see it when it's all done, reflecting the buildings around in all its glory.

Amazing how few skyscrapers there are on the list- I guess we don't have much to choose from in terms of architectural merit. Anyways, I wouldn't say it's fair to rank such a widely-despised building at no. 1 (or to stick 500 Boylston at 24 either), but a very interesting list nonetheless.

While they're at it, bring light rail through the tunnel to downtown/Prov Station

So this is something just floating around in my mind for several months now- I have long maintained that the indisputable best view of Boston is approaching Charlestown from the Tobin Bridge. Downtown, the Mystic, East Boston, Cambridge, the Seaport, Bunker Hill- it's all there. There really...

I apologize for flogging this already mostly-dead horse, but I drove by Lechemere today and couldn't help but notice that there didn't seem to be space for fare control before the elevators/stairs. Is there something I'm missing here? I hope so, because this would be a major fuck up for the...

This is like the worst marriage of Soviet towers in a park with suburban US shopping center blah

I wasn't sure where to ask this- but I was wondering- is the SL Waterfront the only BRT line in the US with off-board fare collection gates? I think most American BRT systems have proof-of-payment.

Just a fun fact- the official MBTA website map now shows GLX, albeit as a dashed line:

Very encouraging, but these "streetscape precedent" images are truly a testimony to the hubris of the developer.

The orange line

OK fine point taken I didn't mean it like that but looking back it seems like unfortunate wording- oh well.

I almost wish the building would stay un-cladded like that. It is all the more impressive to see each and every steel level looming over the West End and the round shape means it looks like nothing else under construction Boston right now (or ever, to my knowledge).

God, I'm gonna miss that sign. I wonder if this is followed by other buildings if it could potentially justify an infil stop at/before the junction behind what is now Sav-Mor