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Does anyone know if this is on higher ground than 100 Federal?

Re: Emerson College - Little Building Addition/Renovation | 80 Boylston St | Downtown That's about how I feel. I prefer the building the way it is but as Frankenstein jobs go, this is pretty good, and almost 300 new beds for students is huge.

Thanks for engaging and linking to the studies. I'll try to digest them when I'm not working. For the record, I support this project in its current form, which is great, but have yet to hear a good economic argument for getting rid of the affordable housing requirements (which is what I...

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, I'm genuinely curious: Do you have any evidence to demonstrate this? Can you show that a less restricted market wouldn't cater even more to the wealthiest buyers and renters? Are there studies that show or even suggest that affordable housing requirements drive...

I really have no sympathy for the "it's economics" argument - if we let the unfettered market do its work, huge swathes of the city's population would be pushed outside of it - but this is a good project for all concerned. The developer has already increased the number of apartments in the...

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Wow, this is great. Out of the 8 proposals, I count 5 over 740 feet. A sixth, Trinity, very obviously breaks the plateau in its rendering.

I'd forgotten about this. 250 new beds, no enrollment expansion. That's great news.

I can just see it poking out from the fourth floor of the Arts and Sciences building at Boston University, right where Granby St meets the alley behind the parking lot on Commonwealth. Here...

I want a gigantic mural of a pygmy marmoset, just to confound expectations.

That's just weird. Sort of brings to mind a more elaborate version of the Genzyme building out on Western Ave.

http://www.metro.us/entertainment/boston-named-best-u-s-city-for-single-men/tmWmbf---33Uk6KpUqJvB6/

Not sure if there's any new stuff here, but Curbed just posted a bunch of renderings: http://boston.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/22-gobsmacking-renderings-of-bostons-millennium-tower.php#more

Last time I tried to book a mid-level hotel in downtown Boston was never. I live in Boston. No, we don't exactly need another 100 luxury Back Bay residences that few can afford (though I'd take them, and microscopic downward pressure they would exert on the market, over more hotel rooms). One...

Ha! I suppose I could qualify that by calling it a relative statement. SSC & SSP feel like being stuck in boys-only middle school classroom with an absent teacher.

Count me in the negative, too. I actually think the Peebles design is good. From some angles the curve is very, very nice, and as others have said, it's probably the best-integrated design of the bunch. I've got a big problem with what's inside of it, though. There are two (soon to be three)...

I take the points about pedestrian experience, but aren't aesthetics in play there, too? The materials on the Boylston make it look like a glorified suburban strip mall, at least to me. The rounded atrium in the BRG proposal isn't mind-blowingly fantastic, I suppose, but I'll take glass over...

Bless you, that pdf is a treasure trove. There's tons of contextual diagrams in there. Does anyone know if, to take just one example, the height for 888 Boylston (on page 22) is correct? 345 feet is nothing to sneeze at. As to the three proposals, BRG all the way for me. (Though the rendering...

Oh, it's no big deal to me. I was just being silly. I didn't either until I googled "most expensive shoes for men"!

So there's a not-so-rich door? I wonder what would happen if they were forced to mingle. "Ugh, are those Gucci?", says the man with Berluti shoes.

Thanks for the photos! I'm having trouble making out exactly where we are. I keep counting 6 floors done and it looks like they're working on the seventh, but the sixth floor seems shorter than its supposed to be, at least according to this, which indicates that the floors get shorter with the...