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Ditto. The whole courtyard bothers me. It's the one bad note in the complex, and it's major. Hopefully it won't seem so bad once shops open and people start to fill the space.

Hope the remaining buildings won't all be glass boxes like these. Looks like an office park made of ice cubes.

Yeah! Sounds like a repeat of the skyscraper craze that, contrary to all expectations, was unleashed after 9/11.

Too bad Winthrop won't have a slanted roof in the opposite direction.

Sorry, I see now that the comment was pretty callous of me. At the time all I was thinking was that the whole composition, people, lighting, etc. looked staged, as if it was a scene from a Tim Burton movie.

The reason for the parking lot is that's where the BCEC expansion will go, if it ever comes to pass. If Baker hadn't killed the first expansion attempt that parking lot would have been long gone. Anyone here knowledgeable on the current state of the convention industry and how it's likely to...

Damn, what gloomy-looking people. Are they filming a Tim Burton movie downtown?

Such a prosaic name for such an awesome building. In my mind it's always been Star Fleet HQ, not State Street HQ. Too bad I can't make the locals call it that, like they do with the Darth Vader building.

With the construction at Parcel 12 and Boylston Place the city needs to reimagine this stretch of Boylston. They need to make it look and feel like a gateway or promenade connecting Back Bay and Fenway. Right now it looks and feels like an auto-centric no-man's land cutting off Fenway from Back...

Will this be another children's park? The design seems too infantile to be meant for adult Amazon employees.

They haven't been doing a good job so far with the Viola project. In fact they haven't been doing a job with it at all. I believe that by this time construction was supposed to be well underway if not nearing completion. I used to follow the Viola thread with bated breath, but things just kept...

It's probably not so much a question of loving or hating working with Peebles as it is of Peebles being the kind of company every politician and government agency wants to work with nowadays. From the Peebles homepage: With a corporate profile like that the BPDA probably wishes it could...

So I guess to balance the insulting Boston picture in their 2020 city population entry Wikipedia does have this awesome shot in their Greater Boston entry.

Really like junior's pinstripes.

For what I have in mind you wouldn't need to move antennas or anything. Here's a rough sketch of the idea That's the starting point. Just four beams anchored at the corners and meeting at the tip of the antenna. Architects and designers would take it from there to flesh out and refine the...

I find a lot of these types of lists too. The problem is that for every one of these lists that include Boston I find 5 or 10 or 15 lists (depending on subject) that I think should include Boston but don't. It's as if someone is writing a "Top 10 cities for X" list and eleven cities qualify...

I dream that someday they'll plop an open structure like R2D2's on top, but pyramidal instead of round to give the building that classic campanile of St. Mark's silhouette. Keep the current mess since some people like it, but frame it so the crown has a well-defined outline.

True. Plus I think a lot of the US population thinks Boston lacks glamor. It has a lot of history but it doesn't have a lot of glamor, so the people who write those articles choose cities they consider more glamorous instead.

So I was looking at the Wikipedia article on city populations from the 2020 census, which has skyline photos of each city, and I looked at the photos from #1 (New York) to #24 (Boston). Out of the 24, Boston shares the distinction with Fort Worth of having only 1 picture, and the picture being...

Those look cool. Never seen them before. What are they and how big?