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Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown At least cover it with vines or something. Or expand the water feature to cascade down it. So many ways to be creative with a blank wall; none used here.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos ^ Best. Reply. Ever.

List looks off in a number of ways. What's with Seoul?

Re: 319 A Street Rear I guess we've set the bar really low for "great" then. I'd go with "not horrible".

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion Not sure this building was an improvement for anyone in the Bay Village.

Re: South Boston Development Amazing how we can't seem to build the kind of quality urbanism that produced the Back Bay or South End anymore, but the terrible vernacular that's dominated South Boston for 150 years persists completely intact.

There is no good reason for a cap there, period.

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion No worries, no offense taken. I agree the buildings here have relatively small footprints, though they're still somewhat larger than optimal. My real issue is with the architecture - it's monochrome and nothing really stands out. I could never...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion Go ahead and defend the aesthetics of this block. I'd love to hear it done.

Re: Hong Luk Project - Chinatown That "Hong Luk House" sign looks pretty permanent. Maybe there will be retail in the other facades, but this one will be left a lobby or something, I guess.

Much more here: http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/odmeig.Html

Pretty sure they don't design buildings or make the rules that regulate their development, though?

Colonial (Revival)ism + Brutalism = Boston

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion That first photo should win some kind of prize for the shear quantity of blandscape architecture it encompasses.

Everyone start salivating at the prospect of the construction boom that'd happen if the CEO of Suffolk Construction became mayor: http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2013/03/29/politics-as-unusual-boston-shouldnt-hook-big-fish-for-mayor/

Thanks for visiting NYC's boring banlieues so I don't have to. What's up with the neighborhood they're razing!?

Re: Hong Luk Project - Chinatown So...no retail here? Waste.

The new Lesley building, for the lazy:

Re: 121 Brookline Ave (ACE Tickets) Could just use a real cornice rather than a PoMo trellis.

Re: The Victor This shot kinda makes me get why people hate this. It looks like a European semi truck.