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Hot tip: this is going to be quite a sight to see rise from the Independence Wharf observation deck:

He also was very likely assassinated by the US government itself.

I've seen it in person. It's a tad too large for what it is (something of equal mass but with torsos and heads would seem more proportional) and the disembodied arms look David Cronenberg-esque. The color of the statue, a dull matte brown instead of the reflective bronze of the renders, is muddy...

Damn, so in a week we get stuck with a crappy (pun intended) statue forever AND nobody will think or talk about it?

It's pretty dire when The Babylon Bee, a satire page similar to The Onion but with a conservative Christian bent, gets some good shots in:

Of course they realized the statue looked simultaneously like Coretta Scott King's hands displaying a phallus or a turd, or a person performing fellatio (depending on the angle). They clearly went ahead with this design on purpose, because good public art gets people talking about it and freely...

A very valid position echoed by one of the top comments on the major subreddit r/pics, where the picture of the statue recently received "not safe for work" censoring:

I think you're right about this part - a lot of people in the replies to this tweet believe it looks like someone performing oral sex. Facebook and Twitter (and people I've spoken to in real life) are of similar opinions... one person who saw it for the first time with me thought it was...

If you figure out how to submit feedback, Google also still draws the Orange line to run underneath the Devonshire St. entrance to State St. Station, rather than following Washington to the Court/State intersection and then between the buildings on City Hall Plaza. And there is a similar...

Substantial demo work on the surface parking lot today

Isn't this the same city where the intrinsic value of parkland for the public good has been so long-understood that it's legally codified that new developments in our densest downtown areas can't negatively impact even the light cast from the sun onto our central park? I personally think that...

Well you have to remember, the Seaport is one of Boston's oldest neighborhoods that rose about organically over hundreds of years. It's not the kind of place where a master planner had blank slate to worth with, and could have designed the most optimal layout for civic uses and public transport...

FWIW, Twitter user The Fort Pointer has been keeping track of various Seaport developments and debacles and got the developer to re-release this render with the massing of the approved building just to the East of Parcel G, for a more realistic portrayal of the future site.

As people have posted in this thread, good art engages people and gets them talking. The fact that everyone on Reddit is split between whether it looks more like a penis or a turd means this sculpture is a resounding success.

Hmm, Reddit has discovered that at certain angles it looks uncannily like hands holding aloft a large penis.

Here's a fantastic document from 2000 covering pretty much everything about the Pike parcels from the City of Boston perspective. On page 3, they identify that parcels 2 & 3 are located in Brookline and subject to their zoning. Also - the renders are beautiful. Can you imagine?

A building's crown is often the most visible and distinctive element, and can make or break a building's design. For me, I tend to mostly notice them when they bother me, so I wanted to pose a question - what do you all think are Boston's best and worst crowns...

Thanks so much! I guess it's a kind of survivorship bias that I forgot about these extremely well-hidden/aligned ones, while even the smaller Dewey Square Tunnel vents stick out like sore thumbs.

While there's an active thread about vent building design, can I ask a related question that I assume has the mundane answer "it was moderately cheaper to do it this way": Why was virtually no effort made, with the exception of CAT Vent Tower 6, to integrate the design of these stacks into the...