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While you have some salient points, I'm not sure you are aware of the "street reality" of the location. It is in all respects in the middle of public housing. Even the brownstones on W. Newton St. on this block are public housing. The last time a new community center was build in the middle...

Being from the neighborhood, thumbs up. I really like its orientation towards the park. Not only was it sad when the church was demoed, but it's almost been worse just looking at a big hole in the ground for years. For those that aren't from there, the park that this abuts is EXCLUSIVELY...

I'm only 40 something, but the Citgo sign has been embedded in my brain since my first Sox game when I was 4. That said, that piece of ... needs to go. Venezuela, yes. Contribution to this horrible building, yes. Continued interference with modernizing an entire area, yes. Who pays to light...

It cannot be overstated how nicely done this building is. I read recently that there has been a resurgence of real decorative brick work in New York, and this illustrates beautifully why I hope the trend migrates here. In particular for me is the attention to detail paid on the E. Berkeley...

The only parking garage in the city even remotely worth keeping is the Motor Mart in Park Square. And that one is going. Why this is even being considered for preservation is beyond my comprehension.

This building, at 745 Boylston, has always been one of nicer ones to me. The renders and materials suggest something similar for Shreve, and for that reason, I can't really complain. Although the mechanical box on the top is a sin and is where this building shines.

The demise of locally owned family business is never a good thing in the here and now, but it is a function of a capitalist economic system. The idea that "in the past it was better" ignores the reality that the present is a function of people in the past rationalizing opportunity costs and...

Points well taken. If you think what happened to South End is bad, get ready for when 15,000 herbs move onto Dot Ave. and Morrissey Blvd. over the next 10 years. Germantown, it was wonderful to know you. As an aside, my screen name is for the street along the Pike. It was my first place at 18...

I don't know about that. I live a couple hundred feet away from this. It is impossible to justify a one story building in this neighborhood for ANY reason. The building is shabby at best, and quite honesty, public housing aside, it's a million bucks for a new two bedroom around here and...

Perhaps Robert Kraft?

For all the "data science" involved in constructing this "stack of books", it seems remarkable that they require so much steel to simply hold the thing up during construction. They could make another building entirely with all the trusses and supporting steel. It just seems a massive waste of...

The thumbnail of the photo has the Hancock with wavy lines. A trick of the clouds and the angle of the pic, but I love it.

It's very close to being time to jump the crane. You can see the lateral support jousts (?) halfway to connection. I'd say October or earlier to the jump.

Reclad the Hancock like this please.

At this point they should just make the garage a museum. A museum all about stupidity. Just remember this is landfill, literally our trash, that we are fighting about.

At the very least a power wash. I forget the address of the tower that that was built basically on top of it, but it was fairly complicated structurally, and to make it work financially they really avoided messing with the garage. In a better world it would of gone the way of 1 Congress.

The tunnel is an old railroad spur. Not sure of it's history

The are three reasons for this. The first is that Boylston St didn't have a standardized sidewalks for most of existence. The second is that the first attempt at standardization was a mess. Among other mistakes, they chose a design that featured small paving stones that the winter just...

I walk past this almost daily. The thing that continues to amaze me is size of the pit. There are some large buildings in the South End, for sure, but in general everything seems pretty human sized. The square footage of this plot is remarkable to see in person.

I don't think this design survives. If it was built at that moment, perhaps, but after the other "stacks of books", don't see it. But like I said, you added more color, or interesting lighting, even this design could be an interesting geometric counter point to the shear verticality of the...