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The latest version looks like an unfortunate instance (aren't they all) of Value Engineering. Feels like a cheapening of both: 1) the Mass Pike-facing podium/undercarriage elements (moving from terraced greenery, with a wood (?) or copper (?) podium and nice cross-bracing over the Pike ... to...

You'd be surprised...

Sigh. Boston continues lurching toward the grotesque, decimating its history. This, the Arlington Building, the Huntington Theater project, the Simmons residential campus, 140 Clarendon Street (the glass anonymity that is to be "Raffles" - which, Singaporean background aside, sounds like a...

First rendering still looks the best, IMO. In the most recent rendering the "Apogee" building has depressingly devolved into a standard-fare 2020s lab building - it's just terrible architecture.

I'm lost. Are they: 1) preserving the historic building, and adding to it?, 2) demolishing the historic building, and building something fully new that vaguely looks like the old?, or 3) building another Durfee HS elsewhere in the city, leaving the historic building as-is for some other purpose?

Bugaboo Creek was literally my family's (well, us kids') favorite restaurant growing up. We dreamed of the appetizers for months between visits: chili-stuffed potatoes and mozarella sticks with pepperoni flecks in the cheese.

This is a big step backward. Moving from an aesthetically pleasing ensemble, filling its space well in the streetgrid, to the architectural equivalent of Mos Eisley Cantina: an awkward hodgepodge incomprehensibly filling its space.

Still think they should keep the Payless Building's facade.

This reminds me of one of the "airport business villages" you see sprout up around some airports. O'Hare has a bunch of it. So does the Zurich Airport - although the architecture there is of much higher quality than the perfectly named WHOOP House's.

This looks like aesthetically retarded aliens kidnapped an architecture firm. It's replacing dull but dignified buildings. It's a bigger theme architecturally for Boston, which increasingly looks like a formerly dowdy but self-respecting widow who took up meth, started wearing Ed Hardy clothes...

It's pretty good. Certainly not at the level of the Yale addition shown above (or of Princeton's Whitman College, a 2007 Collegiate Gothic addition). But reams above the one-dimensional college modernism that predominates today (see Princeton's most recent construction, New College East and...

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

So they're basically removing the stucco on the existing house and putting new wood up over the house's skeleton?

Fixed it ;)

I'm sure there were reasons for this (I guess?) and the addition is, um, "professionally built" ... but Bigelow Chapel was a near-perfect structure and seemed to meet its needs - including in times when it probably saw a lot more throughput - for 100+ years. Does literally every building in...

I gotta say: Your post (#3,435) doesn't exactly seem to be welcoming two-way political discourse with Charlie_MTA. Is it fair to say you're demanding the mods don't shut down your political speech (or else you'll take your ball and go home), but you don't want anyone to voice perspectives...

Yeah, WTF is with new local high schools being so goddamn ugly these days? This is hideous. Same goes for Somerville High School ... or any other local high school built in the last decade. Winchester. Concord-Carlisle. Newton North/South. One side of Needham High School (a mutant facadectomy)...

Good point. This reminds me of 450 Lexington Ave in New York, which did something similar in the 80s with a similarly nice (though less prominent) old Beaux Arts building.

That is *quite* the feat with the op-ed stable the Globe has these days.

Mixed feelings on this. I am sure making the building useable for academic purposes makes it tough to keep the small windows appropriate for a storage facility. At the same time, the glass carbuncles are an unfortunate erasure of a fantastic historic structure. Tough call.