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    Progress in Lowell

    Good comparison. Worcester seems to destroy its history with a sick glee. Look at the number of beautiful churches the city has razed: Notre Dame, Mt. Carmel - just in the last 3 years! These buildings were the pride and apotheosis of the generations who created Worcester and made it into...
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    Power House | 108 3rd Avenue | Charlestown Navy Yard

    yes, fully worth preserving. and not at all rare/unusual for buildings like this to be preserved, whether in boston or in places that command much, much less $$ per sq foot. Looks like the scumba-- sorry, developers, plan to knock the historic structure down for a Mickey Mouse replacement: From...
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    L Street Station Redevelopment (née Old Edison Plant)| 776 Summer Street | South Boston

    It is a bummer they aren't preserving *any* of the smoke stacks. While I'm sure it would have been more structurally challenging, it would have been a nice nod to the plant's history to have preserved the older, yellow-brick smoke stack.
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    1270 Commonwealth Avenue (Old CVS Site) | Allston

    LOL. This location does have a 'six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon' feeling to it. I never lived here under my own rent contract, but I did shack up for ~half a year with a girlfriend who lived next door.
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    350 Boylston Street Public Meeting

    I think - sadly - the cynical take wins out here: The Landmarks Commission (in Boston, or anywhere else in the US honestly) is a total joke. Fully in the bag for developers and money interests. If a building is owned by a deep-pocketed NGO saying it wants to landmark its structure, the...
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    The Aubrey | 149-153 Newbury Street | Back Bay

    I have a feeling this building will look "fine." But the history of its design iterations - which can be viewed on Page 17 of this Feb 2021 BPDA presentation - shows a devolution from interesting initial design to dull end-product.
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    Seaport Square (Formerly McCourt Seaport Parcels)

    Agree - the design of 88 Seaport looks dramatically changed. Instead of 2 separate pieces (top and bottom), it now looks like they just inflect the windows a bit between the two. That effectively kills off the garden / open area that was previously intended for the top floor of the bottom...
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    ^^ Borrowing construction techniques from the Moscow outskirts (and every other Russian provincial city), where all new construction is covered in cheap alucobond paneling. Maybe the present aversion to all things Russian will lead to some improvements in local construction materials?
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    Cambridge Crossing (NorthPoint) | East Cambridge/Charlestown | Cambridge/Boston

    That's a good analogy. It does remind me a bit of Glattpark in Zurich's Oerlikon neighborhood, where I spent a number of months. New buildings, contemporary architecture, (short) towers in the park ... but also not a terrible place.
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    The Federal Reserve Building would fit in so well on Empire State Plaza.
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    Foundation Medicine (Parcel P) | 400 Summer Street | Seaport

    The hulking Parcel P building looming over the street looks like the alien ships appearing over the world's cities in "Independence Day." Looking forward to Seaport Square getting built out!
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    Watertown Infill and Small Developments

    Wow - end of an era with the loss of that parking garage! Buh-bye, Bugaboo. And good riddance, Miller's Ale House (was never a fan).
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    Kenmore Square North (WHOOP) | 533-541 Commonwealth Ave | Fenway

    Whoops 2.0!
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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    Boston has about as much self-respect as Luanda these days.
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    Downtown Crossing/Financial District | Discussion

    When will BronsonShore apologize? I do think it's a (or 'the'?) problem with contemporary American society that a rising cohort of like-minded people make radical, aggressive statements to politicize everything in life (and to do so, of course, in their preferred political direction). When...
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    Stanhope Hotel | 39 Stanhope Street | Back Bay

    Sweet Jesus is that hideous.
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    ^^ Not as far as I've seen. Just seems like a logical thing to do - you have two major bikeways in close proximity (3 miles), with a railroad connecting them. Just as elsewhere (e.g., the proposed-but-stalled bikeway in Belmont) you could theoretically pave a biketrail alongside the Fitchburg...
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    Agree the Bedford vote seems like a bummer. That said, a few random (kinda-mitigating) thoughts: + Per JumboBuc, maybe this isn't that much of a derailer (to be seen...) + Even if Bedford paved its portion of the Reformatory Branch Trail, doing the same with Concord's seems like a heavier lift...
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    Kenmore Square North (WHOOP) | 533-541 Commonwealth Ave | Fenway

    ^^ Wrong. This building is utter, utter trash. It tore down a perfectly viable, historic and much nicer building. This is exactly what 'doing it wrong' looks like. Every party involved - the developer, the architect, the city regulatory bodies - should be ashamed of themselves.
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    Kenmore Square North (WHOOP) | 533-541 Commonwealth Ave | Fenway

    Do we still have an annual Hall of Shame voting process? The WHOOP(S) building really needs to be shamed as much as possible for its bad citizenship.

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