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    Boston University - Warren Towers Renovation | 700 Commonwealth Avenue | Fenway

    "Rooftop gardens provide multiple benefits, including decreasing temperatures in urban spaces, managing stormwater runoff and providing a space to grow produce." I am very fully on-board with rooftop gardens (and all greenery/arbor "stuff"), but that garden is too small and inconsequential to do...
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    beautiful
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    Bill Russell Bridge | North Washington St.

    I wasn’t clear (my bad; sorry) - we had been discussing David Ortiz Drive and my comment was in reference to the prior name, “Yawkey Way Extension,” and not the former Yawkey Way, which did, indeed, become Jersey Street.
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    Bill Russell Bridge | North Washington St.

    A big part of it was a sense of urgency to disassociate from the rascist implications of having it be "Yawkey" way.
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    Bill Russell Bridge | North Washington St.

    I'd be on board with that, too.
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    Bill Russell Bridge | North Washington St.

    I like this. There was talk in June of renaming Logan “Bill Russell International Airport.” I like that even better.
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    Best Cafes of Boston

    Also - not many folks/staff truly master the "over medium" egg!
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    State Street HQ | One Congress | Bulfinch Crossing | West End

    Hard disagree. Friendly question (as "friendly" as I get, anyway): Have you seen these in person?
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    Interesting. Since 177 looks to be nearly topped off, I'd have assumed '71 or '72 (but we're kind of splitting hairs here).
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    It *is* a unique city. And I'm glad I don't live in some weird terrarium or historical re-enactment backwater nothing-town. I really like the look of real, today, present-tense Boston.
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    Middlesex County Courthouse Redevelopment | 40 Thorndike St | East Cambridge

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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    I think (fear?) that it's becoming a kitschy quasi-tourist attraction that may, through sheer inertia/atrophy, wind up being some pointless "Boston icon" (I'm looking at you, CITGO sign). Last time I was up at Deck 12 I heard a group of folks talking about how "dope" it was that "the city...
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    Nothing. It looks bustling and shiny and bursting with activity and prosperity. You win.
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    If it “confuses” you how that photo looks somewhat bleak and suggestive of economic and societal decline in Boston, then I guess I’m here to bafffle you with my takes. And if that image suggests to you a gleaming metropolis on the rise, I applaud your sunny optimism. As for “the relatively...
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    What a bleak, deep-in-the-throes-of-decay/urban-flight view of Boston. I love the shot, don't get me wrong, but dag... It's really amazing how much the city has rebounded.
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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    When you're right, you're right.
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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    Another significant about-face on aB! Not complaining - I enjoy when hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over developments turn out to be either misguided or at the very least overblown. Personally, I think the new building is fine, if a little ho-hum, and agree that if street-level is...
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    Boynton Yards | 99-101 South/808 Windsor | Somerville

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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    Agreed. The block that had been there was just fine and likely could have been converted — it was just a bunch of bow window-heavy brownstones. Gorgeous. Kenmore used to be cool. Now it’s nothing.
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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    It looked like a giant Cheesecake Factory. Tacky dogshit. Insisting on the re-do was one time the city did the right thing.

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