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I think this is a high quality building including the cladding. It's different from the typical 'luxury' glass curtain wall / alucobond highlights or Seaport precast but provides texture, contrast and broken up massing. Still need to wait to see final finished product and the joints might stand...

It's a pretty uninspiring streetscape. Although much better than the (considerably less exclusive) Ink Block. But here's hoping this project inspires improvement in the opposite side. It's going to be hard to change what's there. Although one can dream about getting rid of the hideous and...

Not sure I really captured it. But this is the most lavish groundbreaking performance I have seen. About 4 catering trucks and looks like a bar mitzvah inside. It must be for more than just the 20m photo-op. Suppose this is what it takes to sell a $5m condo.

Re: Congress Street Garage Development I don't understand how the existing garage structure would remain under this proposal. Finally got the PNF (warning slow file). Pelli's plan is not really compatible with the original redevelopment plan praised by the AIA ( as originally noted by...

I am sure these numbers are neither precise, complete, nor directly comparable and I'm certainly not drawing a linear trend. I am trying to show people who think it's unreasonable that security could cost $1bn that in fact this figure is a very reasonable lower estimate and is more likely to be...

Security will clearly cost well over $1bn. “The Games are larger and the world is a different place than 2002 [Salt Lake City Olympics]. I imagine the security costs are going to be in the multiple billions of dollars” said Mark Dyreson, a sports historian and professor at Penn State...

I guess you've never been to London. It is very similar to Boston only moreso. Many London 'neighborhoods' were located before the metro area filled in. Therefore connecting each neighborhood is a single direct road at all sorts of weird angles (i.e. Kensington High Street, King's Rd, Brompton...

The criticism about "hotels to be a convention city" is about hotels directly adjacent to the Convention Center, not hotels in the metro area overall. And this need is already being addressed with many hotels being built / developed and planned near the Convention Center using 'quasi' public tax...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) I don't have a PhD but definitely do have some relevant experience in this subject. Some of the comments regarding this issue have been pretty silly. thinkbiggerboston was perfectly correct. Exposed reinforced concrete particularly in a chlorine...

There have been a lot of comments about people making a fortune on their rental apartments/properties during the Olympics. This is unlikely to be the case. The same idea was put forward in London. But just like the idea that the Olympics would 'overwhelm' the city with traffic it just didn't...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) An interesting take on the relationship between the city and shadows that some here may find refreshing. And from a normally NIMBYish neighborhood journal no less. The comment section may get a little bit fresh.

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Fattony, This critique seems somewhat unusual for you. I normally find much in your common with your view, but in this case I don't understand your comment/list at all. Campbell's critique is that it the Seaport represents a "failure of urban...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport I basically agree with Campbell. Some modest adjustments can be made over time but the damage is largely done. The most important question is: have the lessons been learned for the Beacon Yards / Lower Allston area? Good news - existing...

Interesting set of alternate MBTA maps.

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 There's a fair bit of enclosed space below where you can wait on both sides. And there's enclosed space at the platform level where you can wait (at the north head house and possibly a very little at the south). I am not sure whether they are...

Thanks for everyone's comments. I am not sure that London companies' bike facilities are that much better than here. I think it's more the result of a build-up of a biking culture over time. And they have maybe 5 or 10 years on us. I agree that Europe is generally different. But they also have...

I also love the space of the ped & cycle tracks, talk about a dramatic difference. But the real question will be how each of the four ends will be through connected to Washington St and the adjacent river paths. Will it seamlessly merge with Washington St again? Will there be a direct...

Re: Parcel U, Jamaica Plain Maybe a better urban planning opportunity would have been a cap over the Orange line tracks and to shift the focus for a dense mixed-use project towards the Washington St corridor. Hyde Park Ave doesn't feel like a comfortable street at all for either ground floor...

I would agree that the Midtown site could use some redevelopment for the increase in tax revenue, better architecture, more dense use and possibly better streetscape. Although improving the streetscape may be hard because there is very little activity on that side of Huntington and the street...

Re: Garden Garage Towers (Basketball City) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End Paul McMorrow in Globe on new proposal.