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    Harvard SEC (Science & Engineering Complex) | Western Ave | Allston

    This one looks like a Rt 128 Special wearing tin foil chain mail. Doesn't really project any bravura at all, despite all its apparent effort -- actually, quite the opposite. And the paired-down industrial chic of that atrium is so played out at this point that it's just lazy. Take away the...
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    The Aubrey | 149-153 Newbury Street | Back Bay

    I'm liking this one. It's definitely nothing to get excited about, but I think we're getting the best of the several iterations that were presented. Those earlier designs with the triangular facets at the corner were tacky and would have aged quite badly, IMO. This design being built doesn't...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Boston Common | Downtown

    Embrace... the D! Looking forward to seeing the countless forced perspective photos in front of this, à la the Leaning Tower of Pisa, posted online in the future.
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    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Boston Common | Downtown

    Chicago may have The Bean, but we've got The Ween!
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    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    It's wonderful that this part of the turnpike is finally being built on. It's Just unfortunate that the actual design of these buildings is so stupifyingly dull, and clumsy.
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    Amazon Office II/SeaPAC | 1 Boston Wharf Rd. (Seaport Sq Parcel L5) | Seaport

    Hallelujah! A 20-story building that isn't pathetically pretending that it's a 10-story (or a 6-story!) building.
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    Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

    This is, in my opinion, probably the most extraordinary building in Boston. I would prefer it to be demolished rather than survive in such a defiled state as that.
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    BU Data Sciences Center | 665 Commonwealth Avenue | BU Central

    In my opinion, the designers of this building committed huge blunders by 1.) incorporating so many different exterior finishes onto this facade and 2.) treating the building's exterior as a collection of two-dimensional planes rather than three-dimensional volumes. The whole...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Boston Common | Downtown

    From that angle in the rendering this sculpture looks like nightmare fuel.
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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    The acquiescence of this demolition by Boston's so-called preservationist organizations seriously calls their credibility into question. It really does seem like the true mission of Boston's various "preservationist" groups is to preserve parking spaces, grand window views of the lucky few and...
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    119 Braintree Street | Allston

    Welcome to Wallston.
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    South Boston Infill and Small Developments

    I agree. There are several puzzling design decisions on this one, but overall I think the presence that this building brings to the square, with its more appropriate scale and use of materials, is an improvement over many of the others lining it currently. Hopefully the William Rawn designed...
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    The Bon | 1260 Boylston Street | Fenway

    This building is disorienting. It exudes confusion and discord. It is in total disagreement with itself. How many different scales are represented on its facade?
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    Harvard Enterprise Research Campus | 100 Western Avenue | Allston

    I dont understand all the praise for this Treehouse. It looks like the Port Authority Bus Terminal. I wish Harvard would lose this corporate campus oriented design mindset. It seems like they're intent on recreating the worst aspects of Kendall Sq in Allston. It's very disappointing.
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    Longwood Place (Simmons Residential Campus) | 305 Brookline Avenue | Longwood

    Boston is being eaten alive by terribly scaled, suburban blah-chitecture just like this. That could be a rendering of Boston Landing, the Seaport, Kendall Sq., the Bayside Expo site, Assembly Row... the list goes on and on and on.
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    Marketplace Center | Quincy Market | Downtown

    This is hardly better than what's there now. Surely they can do better than this.
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    Bay Village Apartment Tower | 212 Stuart St. | Bay Village

    This building's massing/aesthetic simply does not work. It's odd in a cheap and uninteresting way. It just looks incompetent, like it was designed by a child.
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    11-21 Bromfield Street | DTX | Downtown

    This double/triple height exterior floor massing has to stop. It is the most insidious design fad that has ever happened to Boston. The city is being grotesquely disfigured.
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    State Street HQ | One Congress | Bulfinch Crossing | West End

    While coming into the city from the north this building looks incredibly wide. It's like Boston's glassy version of the MetLife Building.

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