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I wasn’t advocating for that (but I didn’t know the fact about it being Milford granite—very cool), just saying you can’t point to some natural and subtle palette as a source of inspiration and then just go with a flat gray color and claim it has anything to do with the so-called inspiration...

This is a very interesting observation and I think you're dead on. The only association I made to the grey is that it's very much in line with the ghastly grey tones that pervade any staged new condo showing. What I still don't get, though, is why the city would allow something that directly...

Nice, this is density at a prominent corner. I like the texture, hopefully materials can deliver the vision...

That is true up to an extent, and the irony here is that in the case pictured here, more height is actually better, because it highlights the building’s grace and form… without the two towers, Dorado would be a pile. I think it’s unfortunate that all across Boston we are so fixated on height...

That looks excellent

Such an important point 💯

I think it would have been better to simply construct much denser development along Morton St / Harvard St, continuing the urban fabric that already exists—and at a level of real density, thereby supporting more population than any of the gross, anti urban developments we’ve seen… and left the...

Wow. This looks fucking horrible. Looks like they did a very good job ruining Copley Square.

This is unfortunately a direct consequence of the horrendous lack of central planning for development: the only areas that tend to become available for large scale developments are areas that are large spaces of developable land, and by definition, spaces like this tend to be far from dense...

This is a terrible project in a terrible location. With or without the redesign of the rotary, it’s a very poor location for a large volume of entries and exits. And there’s nothing wrong with advocating for aesthetics. I’m with the Arboretum on this one. I don’t want to see buildings when I’m...

Ghastly

What happened at the Brookline town meeting on May 8

Dorchester has some beautiful streets that are all triple-decker, eg, Taft St, which surely must be the best of all examples of this style in Boston. I would much rather live on a street like that — with handsome, three-decker structures that each have their own form, breathing space in between...

I had deleted by post since I wanted to rewrite it but looks like you replied simultaneously (I think your post is a reply to mine at least). The most important point here is that simply finding a spreadsheet with numbers on it does not in any way amount, necessarily, to useful data, or data...

True, but I think what I am suggesting would come down more to the specifics of those federal regulations. I don’t think it would be considered “changing navigability” if you removed the seawall and made a marsh—but I have no idea what I’m talking about so could be totally wrong. Do you happen...

It's really too bad that Boston has nowhere restored any actual tidal ecosystems. It's literally redeveloped the entire shoreline of the Seaport, and most of East Boston, and nearly without exception, seawalls are maintained. How about some shallows, tidal flats, estuaries here? They can still...

Amazing! I went back to visit in 2018 and the change (to the whole area) was astounding.

I also drive a lot so I think some of my wariness just comes from observing how intense drivers behave at certain intersections. Some roads and intersections just have crazier energy, and those places make me much more scared to be on a bike in the road. Mostly, they’re places where lanes drop...

I spent the 03-04 year at Queen Mary and lived right on Regent's Canal. Walked the canal to Camden and beyond all the time. It's incredible how different it is now. Those areas were totally dead, the gas tank things were just these amazing skeletons, and the area mostly deserted until you got...

I think it's pretty important to be flexible if biking anywhere in Boston. There are plenty of intersections that are incredibly dangerous ... if you follow what the bikes are supposed to do. For that intersection and similar intersections, I usually just hop on the sidewalk and use crosswalks...