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Re: Verizon Building Tower That shot is a sad reminder that the erosion of Boston's urban fabric in favor of the car didn't begin with the Central Artery or the West End.

Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place Legal - boring. The building looks fantastic in the shots Downburst put up on 5/16 though.

Re: 319 A Street Rear Yes, Virginia, you can build decent architecture at FAA-mandated Seaport stub height.

Re: South Boston Development Yeah, can we have a whole neighborhood of these please?

It's Texas. Austin gets too much credit for what it is because of its context alone.

Re: TD Garden Towers This is perfect. Someone could probably program a bot AB and it wouldn't be that far off...

Re: The Victor I don't think anyone on this forum disputes the fact that background buildings are good. No one wants a Googie Boston or a starchitecture theme park. What people wish was that the construction quality and basic urbanism of the background buildings was a little higher. Stone vs...

Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown I think it'd be great if we designed our streets for Sundays and our mass transit systems for the rest of the week, rather than the other way around (ahem, 12:30am last train).

You mostly walk around, then probably sit for a bit. There's not much more to it really.

Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown Any reason why that street shouldn't be narrowed by at least one lane?

This seems to be happening in a lot of towns and small cities. Large corporations killing off suburban-style big box branches because they're not the most profitable or going belly-up thanks to internet competition; small bookstores and cinemas revitalizing in the town center. Call it organic...

Wacky intersections, you mean like... Or... No traffic light arms necessary.

Never has a shot more cried out for Copley Place.

Re: Lovejoy Wharf A new West End, I guess I should've said.

Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown It's like they ordered the Sampler from the Central East Germany Factory for Cheap Precast Facades.

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Here's the site plan for what's replacing the 2010 Shanghai Expo site: Look familiar? Superblocks, stumps, excessive greenspace, massive streets. It's almost like they brought in the BRA to plan it. I guess outside a few prestige projects in...

^ This is what Paris does, and what many suburbs of Boston used to do until recently. I wonder if some regulation was adopted to force overhead arms.

Re: Lovejoy Wharf Hear that? It's the sound of a West End by a thousand cuts.

No way. You see this in poor Upstate New York cities and it looks cheap and hideous. I think it's a practice that's being discontinued due to wind issues making it unsafe, too. If we're going to choose a less safe type of traffic light, I'd rather go back to the poles at the side of the road...

A lot of them are offices, I think, just like a big city downtown. The most surreal thing about these pics are the dense streets where you can look up and see equally dense stands of trees on the hills/mountains ascending into fog.