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re My house is less than a mile down the road from this Ikea, and in all honesty the location for it was perfect. It sits next to the highway with an exit at the entrance to the commercial park and another one on the ass end of Ikea before the more direct exit about half the mile up the road...

re What's the Boston building?

What? Belkin scooped up Piano to design his "entry" and submitted it. It's not about architects vieing for the spot, its about investors and people who have the wherewithal to build these projects submitting their proposals. Belkin was the only guy who realistically could make a feasible...

re Belkin owned the adjoining lot, had been looking to get in on the Winthrop Square garage for years, and thusly had the upper hand from the get go. He was the most vocal about it and could probably do the best work given that he was the next door neighbor. From everything I've heard, it was...

re I think a casino in a more European sense, sort of like Montreal's, would maybe be alright. Many cities in Europe have Casino's as more of a night club sort of structure than a Foxwoods, and I have always advocated for something like that on the South Boston Waterfront. But the cities that...

Boston really isn't comparable to Worcester, Hartford, Providence, etc. Boston is the "hub" of a major metropolitan area, which encompasses these significantly smaller cities, with infinitely more global significance than any of the fore-mentioned (it could be argued Hartford is outside of this...

Not really, because these towers are the icons of the skyline and, as I stated above, they aren't tributes to a bygone style in a modern era. They are just phoned-in derivatives with predictable features. JHT was on the cutting edge of glass towers and its wedge shape wasn't ripped off...

re What I always hated about these buildings was that they didn't come off as a tribute to the Chrysler building so much as just very, very unoriginal. They take the most popular and successful features of modern skyscraper and ripped them off, not in a tributary manor just lazily. They...

It looks like those are still in the new rendering, just not at that angle or with that much detail. First thing I looked for actually.

re I really don't like this building. For one thing, its the sausage plot, and it so could've worked off of that. Yes, its not a luxury hotel and its purpose isn't to impress, but some structural curvature or any distinction besides faux-brick precast siding would've been great. Sometimes...

Re: Nope ... I totally like it. If we are gonna get a mall this is a sick friggin mall. I really don't see what your all complaining about. It's huge and it takes up a lot of space, but I'd rather this one, monstrous, bright, eye catching, and not completely conventional building taking up all...

Shut up. Please for the love of God shut up. The topic was back on track and you have to post an uninformed and misguided reply just to get your voice in the fight, and will surely start more flame throwing crap in this thread. I'm not religious, I was raised Catholic but don't practice at all...

re On some level I enjoy the concept, but calling anything a Man Cave is pretty much the lamest thing I can fathom. I hate Man Town on WAAF for much the same reason, you don't need to reassure yourself that something is manly for it to be so. What an insecure friggin gimmick. ALSO, after...

re I don't think it makes us look like hicks at all! Even though Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a casual commonplace amongst a certain demographic, one that is very prominent in this city especially compared to some of the other 9 cities this was tried out in, it is far from a pop-culture standard...

Whats taking Emporio Armani's place on Newbury Street? I'm surprised they'd be closing that location, it looks like it does good business.

What are you talking about? I can't for the life of me piece together your point in the second paragraph. For the record, Bentley is a fine school if that's your thing so I have no right to criticize you for choosing a school that you can get into and you can afford. I'm 17 and I'm satisfied...

re This forum is so much better than this crap. I've been a member at other public forums, for other topics, that are flooded with educational posts by insightful posters that have nothing on this one, and with this forum even with the threads that go astray and almost childish the words and...

I'm down, but we'll need a lot more than $999,985.75.

re Exactly what I was going to say. In fact the Hancock Tower-Trinity Church pairing seems to me to be the most common post card scene I've witnessed. Fanuel Hall comes in there and Old State House too, but largely because of its context in a modern crossroads. The recurring theme between...

Re I've always had canned baked beans with hot dogs. I hope that counts. My whole life its been hot dogs and beans as the lazy weekend attempt at dinner. I don't know if its a local thing, and I don't think the canned beans are (I forget the brand), but its what me and my family have been doing...