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Re: Official City Hall Plaza Proposals I was thinking of Siena as well, but chose Piazza Navona because of the mixed use around it. It used to be a racing stadium. But your illustration of Siena is much more apt.

Each proposal has merit and I like something about all of them. The problem I have is with the amount of territory of the Common given over to one, large monument. I would prefer the Embrace monument and then smaller pieces spread through the Common made of similar material and symbolic of...

Re: Official City Hall Plaza Proposals It's too bad when they built city hall because they thought of the plaza as an imitation of St. Peter's Square, with the basilica as a backdrop to a vast open space. Yet how does that space work? There's a Pope who gathers pilgrims on a regular basis...

How many times will they redo this street level, entrance, and lobby? The hulk was unfortunately designed from the beginning, the cladding claustrophobic, the inset fenestration gloomy, and the scale inappropriate for the location. Other than that it's great. Not.

Probably Bronze, not wrought iron or cast iron. Valuable for art's sake as well as for scrap. Too bad they're gone.

Finally something tall and sexy on this spot. Been waiting for almost 50 years to fill it.

In the past 60 years I've noticed Boston government and Boston businesses (e.g. malls) are famous for one particular peculiarity: creating fountains that work as designed for a year and then fall into disrepair, disuse, and waste (sometimes 100 years later someone comes along to restore a couple...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett Las Vegas desert architecture in a very blue collar, industrial setting. Just lovely (sarcasm).

21st C. public housing chic...or not-so-chic.

Groan...another one of "those" buildings. I'm so sick of glass towers sheathed at the bottom with fake-looking brick facades to "hide" what's obviously an unimaginative block of nothing.

I believe MotorMart is the first garage of it's kind in the country. Am I wrong?

I agree that the building should be partially demolished, Court Street restored, Pemberton Square restored as a park, and judicious additions to height and scale added. The sidewalk area of this building has been redone at least 3 or 4 times in my memory...adding lights, subtracting lights...

I agree. It's a sad end to an historic building...built by German Catholics with a beautiful period interior. It could indeed been converted to a neighborhood center for recreation, the arts, and social services. Once the architect was chosen it would have been better to have torn down the...

I too miss the colorful former lobby...the bland and boring white marble has been overused in nearby lobbies...terrible waste of space. Apparently some kind of retail will go into the newly redesigned, redesigned lobby. I don't object to the glass per se unless it ends up being dark and smokey...

Orange line from Malden into the city...usually just fine. City to JP...depends... JP back to Malden...interesting characters sometimes. Never encountered bodily fluids, but certainly a few homeless kin.

Loved this more than you can imagine! It's my link to the city I truly love and have followed for over 5 decades...seeing it develop and bring in fresh architectural language, texture, and life. I now live in Tampa, which has promise, but is now where Boston was 40 years ago...struggling to...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport After visiting and seeing the success (I believe) of the Greenway, regarding the maturing and varied plantings, the benches with solar energy ports, and the excellent maintenance, I look forward to the green spaces in the Seaport developing in a like...

I couldn't find the thread for the BPL renovation. I just visited after 3 years away (now in Tampa). Wow! What a transformation and so colorful, artistic, and a feeling of texture. The spaces function so differently now and who knew that one day one would not only be able to talk above a...

Just returned from a visit to Boston after 3 yrs. away. I've got to say the Greenway has been tremendously improved. Not only has everything grown nice and tall and wide, the edge plantings have filled in and now the paths truly seem isolated from the streets. The North End parks are truly...

Simon's only concern is retail space. You can bet there will be a plethora of sales kiosks, signs, televisions, and beautiful objects livening up the sterile mall look. Square inches for making money is what Simon has been about for a long time. I'll be surprised if they have any seating.