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Fort Point craziness! Well, nice to see the designers over at CBT were at least thinking big - interesting to dream at least! :) http://www.cbtarchitects.com/urban-design/master-plans/private-sector/index.php?id=265

Re: South Boston Seaport Something like this should have been built on the SBW - I always thought the parcels where the horrid Seaport Lane buildings stand would have been great for a new regional performing arts center... SAFDIE'S SHELLS Cultural center breathes life into downtown Kansas...

The final report: http://www.t5boston.com/pdf/CP_Final_711.pdf (Scroll down about 2/3 way for some interesting renderings of potential development...)

Re: South Boston Seaport New rendering of the Vertex building from TKA, the architects: http://www.tka-architects.com/st_fallon_fanpier.html Does it not somewhat remind one of the glass upper part of Atlantic Wharf?

Many renderings/site plans and some information from the CBT Architects website: http://www.cbtarchitects.com/initiatives/works-in-progress/index.php?id=218

Kennedy Institute Apparently, the above was just a submission, as this Globe article today states the architect for the Kennedy Institute will be Rafael Vinoly, who did the BCEC...

UMass Boston Kennedy institute I thought this project had a specific thread but going back I couldnt find it... Anyways, a friend at Yale School of Architecture is taking a studio with Deborah Berke so I thought I would check out her company's website; apparently, they are designing the new...

BSA Urban Design Committee meeting on BU plans For those who may be interested to attend... BSA Urban Design Committee January 21 / 5:30 pm The Architects Building 52 Broad Street, Boston Join the Urban Design Committee on January 21 at 5:30 pm at The Architects Building for a presentation...

Re: Suffolk new arts building There might have been a thread for this project but I couldnt find it upon a quick search... a rendering of the new art building Suffolk is constructing on Beacon Hill, from the Chan Krieger website (http://www.chankrieger.com):

Mass Art / WIT development In the image below from the Goody Clancy website (http://www.goodyclancy.com) you can see the proposed Mass Art dorm tower at the site in front of the WIT dorm, plus some further planned development at WIT and that triangle parcel on Huntington... this was part of the...

Agent JS38 was recently able to view a draft document on the BCEC expansion not for public consumption, but managed to scan a copy of the proposed general plan for the BCEC campus expansion; the red circle is the proposed site of a new attached HQ hotel for the convention center:

New renderings From the architects, Elkus Manfredi's, new website: http://www.elkus-manfredi.com/project/longwood-center/ Looks like a cross between their Broad Center at MIT and that condo building at North Point... but I like it...

Natick lifestyle The New York Times weighs in on the project... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/realestate/30nati.html - JS

Publicity plug Shameless bump - Starts Today!!! :) Weather looks good for the weekend, so for those of you around here who can make it, I expect to see you out there at events!!! - JS

Sorry to post this here but I think you would all agree this benefits from the most exposure.... Anyways for the last few months Ive been part of this group called CommonBoston. Check out the website at commonboston.org. The short summary is that our flagship event, a citywide architecture and...

new NU dorm complex Additional images from the architect's website: http://kswa.com/portfolio/NEUP18/index.htm "Contextual to its surroundings" I would not describe this as. Only from one of those angles do I like the design. Its projects like these that create understanable NIMBY...

Project website New BU website for the Student Village II project with renderings, images, info. etc: http://www.bu.edu/studentvillage2/

From the Boston Globe business blog tonight.... Major Hynes renovation proposed An $18 million renovation plan has been proposed for the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston's Back Bay. According to the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, which owns and oversees...

Green museum Video report from Channel 5 on the "green design" of the new museum sections: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/asseenon5/12520397/detail.html# - JS

Media lab website Going from the business school back to the Media Lab expansion, here is the project website from the official architects, Maki Associates of Japan, with some project renderings I think we havent seen before. For those with time and interest, Fumihiko Maki will lecture at...