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One thing the reno has done quite successfully, is take the eyes away from the roof addition for the old Fed Reserve building. Jarring when it was built in the late 70s, it fades to the background now.

Looks like we have a name for the residential, and it's a very familiar one: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/2022/10/03/south-station-tower-condos/?fbclid=IwAR1rPL1oLGJMTaNfKa3z0RrPrl5w63OPCTgUddogWlo5I0AlQXZ-NBhS3w4

Well, that was fun.. Sixteen years since the city's first official announcement: design competitions, bidding wars, actual wars, terrorism, pearl clutching, pandemic, financial calamities, and here we are with the crane coming down on a glass box. Tommy Menino's dream really has inspired a...

If you pop on to the VisitBoston IG, there is a little Pru preview in their strories. It should be there another 15 hours or so before it vanishes. https://instagram.com/stories/visitboston/2905620498716328196?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

Time flies, and you can still cringe thinking about who these sh#t-posters were, and how nice it is they've been shown the door. In a less cynical follow up I'd add step: 11) Look back and appreciate much Boston and surrounds have changed since that post in 2013. 🏗🏙

Yes, that would have been me. Dusting off the AB cobwebs back to June 5, 2013 referencing construction at TD Garden. And by recent comments, we're at step 9, so pretty far along. ;) 1) Post article from Globe, Herald, or BBJ 2) Excitement ensues for 3-10 posts. 3) Rendering released. 10-30...

Just because a certain type of tree can survive in California or Washington doesn't mean there's similar option that works for Boston's climate or the site constraints. As always it can come down to cost/benefit, programming decisions, and what has historically had the best chance of surviving...

I'd vote for a lousy Delta billboard over any of the ambulance-chaser law firms posted all over town.

It all comes down to cost/benefit. Anything is possible for the right price, but then factor in spread keeping healthy supportive soils, the root causing adverse wear and tear, human impacts like foot traffic on shallow roots (or dogs peeing on them constantly), weight of vegetation or potential...

The root structures are not conducive to urban settings. Pine/evergreen tends to spread at the surface (so would lift/crack most hardscaped surfaces), as opposed to maple, oak, birch, locusts, etc., which tend to be more compact and roots grow down or can survive constricted environments.

Can we just post this map somewhere prominent on AB... so every time the FAA map comes up, it has a home like the 'update of project X' thread?

Kind of creepy seeing the completed top third of the building floating over exposed beams and sky!

I'd agree. Again, arrival at Logan the other morning, and maybe it was the golden sunrise hour, but between everything at North Station, Bulfinch Crossing, One Dalton in the distance, PO Square reno, cranes all over the Seaport, this of course, and SST to come- what can sometimes feel like a...

I have to say flying into Logan at the crack of dawn this morning how this absolutely dominated the view across the harbor. 1IP was no longer the tallest downtown (which, I know it isn't anyway), and 100 Fed simply vanished into the background. Obviously it's a 5 second view out the window...

As long as they look OVER the very odd triangular parcel on the north corner of Summer/World Trade Center Ave., and the lower level Haul Road and rail, which is basically a gravel pit abyss right now. I am very happy to see the project open up more useful public space in the tangle of ramps and...

Same. This north view reminds me of a glassy but unfinished Met Life North Building (11 Madison) in NYC; this massive base that looks like it had a 700' tower cut from it, sitting incomplete for eternity. The lot isn't that big in reality, but something about the renders makes the scale feel...

Oh good, we've moved on to the "this might be the end of the world" part of the project, where every panel placement or window installation will be dissected and deemed to potentially lead us all to Judgement Day. Can't wait to get to the "came out better than I thought it would" or "better...

Yea, and the message it sends when it's torn down for a parking lot and then police station. We all grow up with our biases of what is, or isn't a good neighborhood. What we fail to think about in our casual ignorance of that place or people are the outside forces that caused the rot to begin...

Didn't know where to throw this, but a great account to follow on IG: Segregation by Design - At the moment, it's just started to scratch the surface on Boston's urban renewal and highway construction programs of the 50's-70's. It's almost better to be able to binge posts, instead of the slow...

What do we think.. flags on the core mean it's more or less topped out?