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Re: NU BioLab South End Don't worry, the plague is caused by a bacterium and is easily curable, Besides, if a bug does get out, physical proximity won't make much of a difference. justin

Mmm, grey precast -- how bold! justin

^ One might argue that the elevated artery and the sort of construction chosen for the new West End were deliberate and appropriate responses to the new and hugely disruptive phenomenon that suburbanization was at the time. The design of the Greenway reflects something more insiduous: that...

The elevated artery needed replacement one way or the other, and replacing it with another el would have been at least as difficult from the point of view of engineering, and infinitely harder to sell politically. I share your preference for urban grit; but the old artery's grit never struck...

I don't see why those houses are worth the hassle. justin

Sick transit...

^That's actually very close to what I had in mind, except that there'd be a mirror image of those buildings on the Garden side, the obelisk would be in the middle of Charles St, at the intersection with the park axis, and the two buildings on either side would embrace part of the semi-circle...

Poking the holy cow, eh? My man. I might buy some of your arguments, but they seem to me to apply to any small urban park. Is Place des Vosges 'bereft' with problems, all fenced-in, filled with old ladies, its sidewalks swallowed in the dark repetitive colonade? 'Should's' are hard enough...

Class warfare quiz: Which great political leader said that 'To get rich is glorious'? justin

That orange splotch looks surreal (or photoshopped, same thing). justin

Funny this topic should meander to the few PoMo buildings in Boston to which my reaction is more nuanced than instant retching. After half a century people decided that High Modernism is too austere for mass production; fair enough. But the return to ornament turned out to have had even less...

True to form, ablarc... great post, especially the Budapest trick. Oddly, my favorite picture was this Maybe I just prefer gritty to pretty, but the sudden bustle after all the dead sidewalks was startling and reassuring. I suppose that if the human weakness for shrubbery must absolutely be...

Moi, ostentacious?! Ya lol, dude, ya lol. I'm being anything but ostentatious; and I am, in fact, making a simple point. One of the main arguments for extending marriage rights to gay couples was that respect for individual choice trumps tradition as a criterion for the state's deciding on...

One man's modus ponens is another man's modus tolens... I mentioned at least two types in my previous post. justin

I offer a clear and cogent argument in favor of a tolerant and compassionate cause, and everybody thinks I'm joking. What oh what did I do to deserve that... justin

Speaking up for the rights of ostracized minorities, be they gays, polygamists or children younger than 9 months, is no laughing matter to me, mister. justin

Piecemeal extension of marriage rights is a blatant snub to polygamists, incestuous couples and other non-traditional family units. Should a loving union of three men and two women not have the same right to privileges and obligations of marriage? A wealthy and influential minority has stormed...

A serious newspaper, if it absolutely must needs engage in speculation about plans for the distant future, should do so with bold but well-informed visions aimed at influencing those plans. All that the Globe's spread does is rehash the list of existing development plans, praising every...

The more I see of this project the less I like it. It seems to me that, sadly, many people on this forum are so easily seduced by the mere fact of height as to give Tommy's tower a free pass on just about every other aspect of design. Gehry has curves, Libeskind shards, and Piano exposed...

Parking will be underground.