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An actual discussion of design, perhaps starting with this input from somethingrandom, seems merited here. Another thread devolving into bickering over height that is not being and will not be proposed on this parcel seems fruitless to me. So please: design and architecture discussion, at the...

Just a note, as some are suggesting that height could be back on the table if the developer has to give up something foundation-wise: the Massport/FAA height zone this falls into is the 600–625' band. I'm not suggesting this parcel ought to be any particular height, just trying to give context...

Re: Boston Landing Station Residences (Stop and Shop) | 60 Everett St | Allston Is there some sort of counter available for the 53,000 units of housing the city is trying to build by 2030? Like, a website that could tell me how many units have been successfully completed since Walsh made that...

There's no plans for a school or library around here, right? Something traditional like those would go a long way. I do like that they've apparently cut the cars out of the central square. Old renderings showed cars parked all around the park. New renders don't have much of a park, but there...

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District It does look exactly the same, Java King. My problem with the atrium space has always been that it doesn't seem to really belong, design-wise. The exterior and angles of the rest of the building just dead-end around it.

^I was not at any meeting, but the sloped path to the elevated Summer St-- called Seaport Hill back in the day-- has long been the plan for this area.

It was scaled back. It was originally designed to cross the tracks in two locations. It no longer will.

I've been out of town for a while, so can I just get a quick update on this project? I see that the hotel is under construction parallel to I-93 and has topped out, Siena is digging away. But what of other future plans for this site, such as the last corner of the property that has no building...

I was in a meeting this past summer where the design documents for the ARC were being reviewed by commuter rail, engineering and maintenance, and design departments of the MBTA. I'm not expert enough to know what design stage they were at then, but the bridge is very much on its way to getting...

Maybe this photo appears somewhere a few pages back already, but this is visible from the Blue Hills in Milton. Really stretches the skyline.

Re: The Merano (Parcels 1B & 1C) | Bulfinch Triangle | West End I've been out of the country for the past five months or so and just drove into Boston from the north on 93 for the first time in a while: with this and Lovejoy Wharf assuming their final shapes, going into the tunnels right...

Cries out for a mural contest on that wall that now abuts the park. Or a permanent art installation.

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Just like every parcel at Fan Pier, no recent renders exist for Fan Pier Parcel H, and probably, unfortunately, will not exist until the day we're told that it's starting construction that very day. In most full-development renderings, H looks like...

Re: SBWTC /South Boston Waterfront Transportation Center/Seaport/ S Boston I think you know as well as anyone that, if someone is smart enough to argue that a garage increases car traffic, he is probably also smart enough to know that more traffic lanes do the same. And if the commonwealth...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport That Martin Richard park by Van Valkenburgh will be something else. That parcel by the channel's been sitting pretty ugly for sometime now, but it'll be worth it if they can get this park done.

Three parking garages, despite the obvious improvements to the site otherwise, seems excessive, particularly for a location between two Orange Line stops.

Re: Pier 4 Office Tower | 140 Northern Ave | Seaport It appears that anyone looking to work or live at Pier 4 may have to move in slow motion at all times. Definitely a change of pace.

Sorry to continue the discussion down the endless path of tall building discussions, but I disagree that height works at this site. I feel the proposal that currently exists works very well contextually. And, besides, there are several parcels across the street on Atlantic Avenue that are 1) in...

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Because no one in Boston other than the people on this board cares about the posted architectural height of this or any other building. A lot of Bostonians think that the Prudential is taller than the Hancock because...

For the record, the "elliptic green stuff" is already built and wasn't half-assed, and the plan for the corridor isn't just blank streetwall, it's almost entirely retail on both sides.