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The MUCH more significant health risk from living next to a highway is particulate matter from tire-to-road friction, not exhaust. Moving from internal combustion to electric doesn't improve anything. The slight improvement in air quality from less exhaust is offset (if not more) by more...

Is there any housing at all among the millions of square feet built at Boston Landing?

These MF'ers (the Waltham City Government) also used eminent domain to forcibly seize the land from a Catholic monastic order that ran a marriage retreat center that tens if not hundreds of thousands of couples had used over the past 100+ years. What a bunch of heartless creeps, honestly. I...

This really feels like a development where they could have retained the bottom few floors and build above. Miserly cheapskates.

Interesting - that could coincide well with the opening of AMC Causeway, the theater replacing the ArcLight Cinemas at North Station. Per this Reddit board (admittedly, not exactly an authoritative source), the AMC Causeway is due to open "by the end of summer" according to workers getting it...

My mother in law stayed at the Hotel Buckminster a few years back. The interior was your classic "old dowager" situation: Grand, timeworn but by no means dilapidated. Basically, a place that if you invested any modest amount into it and used a few now-standard design tricks, you'd immediately...

^^ It has the misfortune of being in the 'awkward teenage years' of architecture: Too old to be fashionable, too young to be historic. It's the unloved building age that (along with many, many other economic and social factors) let so many 30-90 year old gems get bulldozed in the midcentury...

Will be interesting to see if they address this in some way - or just leave a hideous stain on the barely-opened building for years to come.

Ugh. Thanks, zealots.

No, Sudbury basically shrugged this nastiness onto its neighbors. It's a freaking hideous beast.

We can probably say pretty much the same about the Harbor Garage proposal... Hopefully with that, as with this, something substantive will be built in the end. I would be fine if the step down from the current proposal to what's realized is 'merely' proportional to the step down we've seen here.

... well, vandalism IS illegal. As so often today, it's a question of enforcement of the law - not the law itself, which is sensible.

Looks like it's predominantly 'life sciences'. So Boston gets the tax revenues from jobs and leaves it to the under-stress suburbs to house new workers. Once again.

The Clarendon. And this.

So ... this is where the ice-skating rink, farmers market, European-style piazza, black-box theater, ultimate frisbee game and political rally will all be happening simultaneously, right?

No - but there were significant architectural changes made in 1954-56. See the top of Page 2 here: https://www.firstparishcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CHC-Application-drawings-First-Parish-Church-9-8-2020-1.pdf The current updates would "undo" those changes, returning architectural...

Vienna and London (and I'm sure other cities in Europe) also have retail under (mainly rail) viaducts. It's a fair point that permanent retail tends to occurmore under elevated rail (rather than highway) lines. I don't necessarily think the latter is impossible - but the best examples I can...

Amazing. Of the many times I've seen First Parish I actually (somehow) had no idea it was essentially 1950s architecture - I assumed this was an 'authentic' look. Very cool to see; hoping the materials and execution are top-notch.

109 E 79th Street is a great example of recent NYC architecture. That said - it unfortunately resulted in razing 3-4 brownstones and an even more impressive 5-6 story masonry structure. Would love to see more buildings like it built on top of razed postwar dreck ... which fills too much of the...