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Re: Russia Wharf If they had kept only one brick of the old exterior, it would be one brick superior to almost any facade that has been erected in Boston in the last decade. Realistically, the facades along Atlantic and Congress will be all that is viewed for about 98% of the people viewing...

Re: Silver Line Phase III I can't emphasize how much I dislike this project.

Re: Columbus Center You can talk in circles all you want, but compare your 2 quotes.

Re: Columbus Center I stopped reading at this point. To post numerous misleading diatribes is one thing, but to contradict yourself in two consecutive sentences....well....it's ironic.

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Beton Brut, I almost put a smirky face in my post about shadows in winter, but I decided to present it as a factual obstacle as opposed to a facetious incongruity about development in Boston. My guess is Drucker would prefer the...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop While I like the first, larger floor plate design you showed, and support the concept, to sacrifice the other building to keep at least the facade of SC&L, I think you will run into the issues of shadows on the Public Garden. I can't...

Re: W Hotel Looks very similar to 33 Arch when viewed from the South End.

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Just SC&L....its still pretty on the outside, and people like rallying around pretty....f*ck inner beauty :)

^ Looks like they are also allowing the Arlington St. church to get torn down..... ;)

The ADA does not approve of your Utopian streetscape.

Re: W Hotel and done.

Re: W Hotel In all likelihood there will be a mechnical penthouse as well.

Re: Pike Pictures (Not Pretty) Those bubble letters is all she is contributing? I would consider it blight alone, but to Beton's point, lesser talents have "contributed" to that wall and it does look severly blighted. I still don't understand how people support vandalization. Especially on...

Re: Filene's Not sure you can run one of those as a furnace these days and get LEED certified. ;)

Re: Columbus Center With your numbers I get that Haywood Place is 196% as dense as Columbus Center, which still calculates to $19.3M per acre based on what is entitled for development. My point about it being "unzoned" is that you are assigning a $5M per acre value. For my calculations above...

Re: Columbus Center Wait a minute!!! Ned, are you kidding me? You are using Haywood Place as your comparative parcel? Please, let's look at the facts. Haywood Place = .85 acres 277 Residential Units 373,000 sq. ft. FAR = 9.98 Columbus Center = 7 acres (Ned's estimate that I didn't check)...

Re: Columbus Center ^ Correct. I enjoy how this appraisal is being held up as the truth, but the conclusions of a respectable consulting team that runs counters must somehow be flawed. Different agendas, different conclusions.

I am simultaneously browsing a southeastern US forum as well, and I thought I had accidentally clicked on Greeville, SC when I saw this rendering, until I hit "back" and saw that I was on archBoston and this is Cambridge.....hmmm...that's not a compliment to this design.

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Of course it was....now the rallying cry isn't "they are destroying the facade", it's "give us back the original design" I know that's not exactly what you were implying Ablarc, but that's the how this game is played. Distract the...

Re: Pike Pictures (Not Pretty) ^ It's concerning when I see people of promoting a policy of ignoring crime and blight because if you do something about it, it will just happen again. Police will tell you, the best rememdy to end graffit is the IMMEDIATE removal once it occurs. These "artists"...