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Re: Winthrop Center | 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Hard to believe that anyone would defend the State Service Center. Especially when you consider the great development that's replacing the Congress Street Garage. We could get more of that here.

I’m sure it has its architectural merits, but that’s not enough to justify keeping it. Its ugly; its far, far too large; it cuts off neighborhoods from one another; and the area around it always seems desolate, i.e., it doesn’t lend itself to urbanity. It feel like something you’d expect to...

State Service Center. You could practically build a whole new neighborhood in that turd's footprint.

Look at all those cranes...

Its great that this finally appears to be happening. Maybe the Copley Tower could be revived next.

Woah, that's bold. I hope it happens, but I'm skeptical.

^Nice.

Modernist can be good (John Hancock Tower). Brutalist can also (rarely) be good (Christian Science Plaza). Most of it sucks though. And quite frankly, Boston has way too much of it; its almost overpowering. Aside from the fact that it creates a dead urban space. Government Center was a...

Its unlikely that it will ever be altered because its a federal building, but it would be great it if was torn down/reclad. It’s the ugliest tower in the city, save for those ugly West End twins.

They should get rid of the lowrise portion of the JFK and put it up for development. Then build a new more compact lowrise portion at the base, surrounding the towers and fronting the street, building a streetwall. Then, reclad the towers (glass?) to make them look better (it’d be hard to...

Exactly what I was thinking. There was no saving most of those old buildings in any case. At least the expressway eventually went away. Otherwise, we would have been stuck with more 1 Federal Streets and cement brutalist crap that is much harder to lose.

Re: Crossroads at Kenmore | 560 Commonwealth Ave | Kenmore Square The tower is awesome.

It looks great.

That streetwall looks amazing. If only we could tear down the O'Neill building and get more like this.

Early 80's was pretty much the pinnacle of ugliness for the downtown skyline, before some decent looking towers went up.

Good for him! That said, the Lindemann building is the worst building in Boston save for the Government Center garage, which is going away. That cement piece of crap (LB) cant get torn down fast enough, imo.

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport I like them.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Nice. Just as the CSC tower is finishing up, this one is starting.

Remarkable. Thanks for posting these.

^ Great pics!