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Well how elitist can we get? We're going to dump ALL 201 affordable rate apartments into ONE building and be done with it. We would HATE to have to mingle with THOSE people.

No one goes to Beans for the food. I do not see the need for any dining establishment ON their campus however all of the noted options should be available within a short distance of the campus. They need to stick to what they are good at not try to become everything to everyone and thus...

A REAL Jewish Deli would clean up in that location.

And some landscape architecture as well ... I was interested to see Sasaki's LA Division is the design team behind the Ellinikon Metropolitan Park in Athens, Greece.

Honestly the original design is seriously lacking in any real originality. Just because it came out of a well known firm does NOT necessarily make it quality design.

Actually the new cut through of the facade brings better balance to the original structure and is a better transition from the side of the museum to the front.

Makes me want to break out my cyanometer.

You're absolutely correct. In so many ways that ship has sailed and can only be corrected with tremendous new investments. Portland has some of the worst urban green spaces I have ever seen. And that's my gig.

And yet the Rockies/Western style has been so overused in the west it has become nauseating.

Both programs that have been questionably enforced and there seems to be little concern for non-historic areas and new developments. The fact is that trees mitigate heat gain in the environments they inhabit thus reducing electricity demands for air conditioning.

Westbrook's program is pretty good in most respects, however there have been some glaring examples of mismanagement as well where very healthy trees have been removed unnecessarily when work is being done on a property. One example was the removal of beautiful little leaf lindens that were cut...

Since we are discussing the topic of green space on this thread, I offer this article in support of Urban Forestry, a concept the city of Portland, Maine cannot grasp. This comes from the "other" Portland...

Totally barren looking, at least by night.

My thoughts exactly. MVRDV's presentation looks as though they were still hashing out ideas when they realized they were running out of time and had to get something together to present. It is very poorly put together and doesn't really convey a congealed concept. Gut reaction to the exterior...

Do you know what members that might be? I would like to respond to their assertion that vegetation is incongruous with the historic district. As a landscape designer and urban forester for forty years I have often encountered this type of blatant ignorance on the part of municipal officials...

I had hoped they would be a bit more progressive in their choices of finish materials. The brick color and pattern is reminiscent of a building that has been in place for 60 years and just blends into the background. I'm not sure the silver panels are going to save it.

The facade of the building resembles a scaled down version of the new Maine Med building in a way.

It seems clear that unless the architects were asked to move the main entrance to High street that there was some condition that warranted doing that since all of the proposals are doing it. As with anything the move is surprising but we will get used to it and probably come to like it even better.

You're now comparing apples to oranges. I am wholly familiar with Elkus-Manfredi's work. The New Balance headquarters is an example of their work way above and beyond the USM project.

Different is great as long as it is rooted in solid design principles and is appropriate to it's environment. Unfortunately too many architects either have a total lack of imagination or they don't know when enough is enough. A single errant design element can ruin what could otherwise be a...