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I wonder how many buildings we will be saying that about in twenty or more years, of those that will be stalled or canceled from this era? So many renderings from that era have an ominous, heavy, foreboding quality to them. Many of the buildings that were fully realized from that era still...

Oh, yeah! Paying for it the next few years and longer, we, ummm, they, will be. I'm running away, just in time. So tired of the mythologies about California and the Bay Area (and even about your neck of the woods, too, a630 ;)). Je deteste poseurs. This place is about as eco-friendly as a...

Discovered this article, not posted here yet, it seems, when reading the Green Cities, Brown Suburbs link. Can Buffalo Ever Come Back? by Edward L. Glaeser from City Journal - Autumn 2007 http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_buffalo_ny.html "The other old, cold cities that staved off...

Hell, no! As I said elsewhere, I need to do this. Unfortunately, my wants are secondary at the moment. Accurate attribution or not, he'll always be noted for his quote, as Gertrude Stein will always have her notable quote about Oakland misappropriated. My most surreal Bay Area weather...

Aw, damn! I thought somebody was actually conducting an Ugly Tour of Boston. :) I was looking forward to participating. Hmmmm.... :idea: Those two homes have been derelict since I grew up there. Amazed they've survived this long, despite recent decades of some repairs. Those metal...

Re: Mass College of Pharmacy Hm. This could be so much better. Pity. The many fenestration variations are out of proportion in relation to the overall size of the building. Too big and too flat pieces of glass along with too many of the narrow slits which totally diminish any power that the...

^ No excuse. Offensive! Hope what they provide for the inhabitants inside compensates for what it lacks on the outside.

This construction explains the mess of traffic and detours I got caught up in a few months ago trying to cut through this part of Brookline while traveling between Central Square and JP! I used to live on Pleasant and Freeman in the early to mid 80s before moving to the South End. I never...

I probably shouldn't have been so general about creating an East Bay thread. Thought it would be better than creating different threads for the four or more places I will post pictures from until my departure. All over the place, as usual. Heheh. Oh, well. Since you mentioned it, Ron--not the...

What! Nobody here likes cemeteries? Could it be an aversion to Olmsted, then? ;) In accordance with the few I posted in the SF thread, some ferry-related views from an Oakland/Alameda perspective. The ferries are a popular way to commute here, mainly because the weather...

Oops. I forgot about this thread. Mr. Brut got one of my Boston potentialities--NikeTown. Also, if Copley Place is on this list of options, then The State Transportation Building should be, too. It my be a lumpen pile of brick but, skin treatment and landscraper aspirations aside, it's a...

Dave: PM The Infinity suffers the fate of dull curtain walls of glass and ugly balconies, times two, and the ground level is atrocious. At least the undulating forms make for some curious profiles and light play, as you've captured. I liked it better before the skin went on. (I lost most...

Nope. San Jose is not the Peninsula. (And who finds peace of mind in San Jose? What was that all about? Ha.) The closest we can come is probably the Stanford fight song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htuxb-m4-ng Nnnnnnooooooooooooo! *sniffling* My expectation is destroyed. I...

Re: Russia Wharf This is one instance where I think the old bracing design would have been a beneficial element. It's a basic, identifiable, not-too-confusing shape and form for an aesthetic transition from the old to the new. It implies that some interesting engineering feat is needed to...

Oh, my! The view from your office in Delhi makes Houston office parks look nice. :eek: Six weeks, eh? Pity. I'm being feted in No. Beach, Ides of March weekend. How fitting. :) If you are around.... Yeah, the prodigal son returns. It's for a combination of things, and the timing just worked...

Oxford, MS? Cool little college town. Never took it for a pub town, though. :D Wait.... You aren't anywhere near LA when you're here, so you'll never be warm, even on the Peninsula. What you should be thinking is be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Is there a song about the Peninsula...

DT Dave! And where have you been? (I know where I've been. heh) Last I recall, you were in Mumbai ... India ... somewhere, holed up in a fashionable villa overlooking the fetid multitudes. ;) Anyway, yeeeaaaah (whiny), SF has some nice new thingies to look up at. Oakland can't compete...

There's always Route 1 north of Boston. I was on the Saugus Lynnfield stretch last year and that still has some classic ticky tacky. However, yes, much of the mid-century novelty is disappearing. Pity. C'mon blade! Using others' pics! Shame. Get out onto El Camino Real and capture some really...

underground: Yeah, that was always the case with the South End. It didn't (doesn't?) have the neighborhood or village square designations that equally large neighborhoods like Dorchester or Roxbury have. When I lived there, people would categorize the South End in three distinct ways: Boston...

If you have explored out here enough, consider University Avenue in Berkeley which runs west from downtown Berkeley to the Bay, or San Pablo Avenue which runs into downtown Oakland, on a similar axis as the roadway pictured in the first post above, from the North Bay at the entrance to the...