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Yeah, it took me a while to realize that this is from actual photographs and not an artist's rendering. (I haven't been down that way in a while.)

Let this thread be for any upcoming events of interest. ...When I'm not modeling electromagnetics at Northeastern or over-analyzing demographics here, I'm helping organize an ongoing event called Nerd Nite. This is basically a typical night out at the neighborhood bar (Midway Cafe in JP...

^ I especially like the black abyss in the background. Downtown Boston needs more black abyss. ...If the RKG ends up anything like that pic, I'll be happy. My big concern is heavy, high-speed traffic to and from the highway will make this space unpleasant, but this pic makes the park kinda...

At Clarendon St & Stuart St, Back Bay, a stone's throw from the Hancock & Columbus Center. To be "299 rental and ownership units, a restaurant and a new Back Bay post office" link- BRA Any word on this project? Emporis & the BRA say nothing other than it's approved. ...I will admit that...

^ This I don't recognize at all.

This is probably true. NU is all about it's "urban" identity, which means not just location but also this integration with its surroundings. Ironically, NU has horrible neighborhood relations right now. ...Building H has also won various awards, including I believe building of the year from...

^ Interesting article. Thanks. Yinz think this forum's still going to be around in 2010, when the next Census count takes place? We should take bets on what that count will give Boston. In the previous two decades, the gain was 12,000 and 15,000. I'm going to go with 630,000, an increase of...

The only way to make it work would be if we somehow managed to populate it with lots of people who work in Back Bay, MIT, BU, NU, etc, even Longwood, who would mostly be walking to work. These are the same people who drive/T to the neighborhood every day causing all this traffic, so moving them...

What are some other buildings around the world yinz think would (or wouldn't) work well here?

^ You do make the dorm and memorial coexisting seem very awkward. Are there alternate locations for the dorm? What about alternate locations for the memorial? Sure, it's already been built, but maybe it's still the easier one to move, since it's just some landscaping and could presumably go...

^ The Post Tower seems unremarkable. A nice building, for sure, but not better than 111 Huntington. And at a completely inappropriate scale for its neighborhood! :wink: Wait, this is the SST thread. Oops. I wonder what year that'll win the Emporis awards. Is there a completion date on SST?

Guilty as charged. I'm actually in Pgh right now, lounging at the folks' place. And you?

That's cool you edit for Emporis. It's a great website. The Emporis awards section, though, doesn't have much info or pictures. I know it's all there elsewhere on the site, but it'd be nice if it was all there. Also, the site says 111 Huntington came in 3rd to the Kingdom Centre in Riyadh...

^ source/link?

I think the strangest place in NYC is Broad Channel: You are right about RI being kinda desolate and certainly no reason to go except to live there or (in my case) out of curiosity. This gives me pause when I think the Mission Flats area should get built like RI, but I think RI's desolate...

Ahh, to think that this building was met with community opposition. It is, after all, completely out of scale with the surrounding area, and so radically modernist in such a historic place. Question: How many of the smaller skyscrapers in, say, bowesst's pic from Cambridge existed when the...

The "Little Apple", a skinny little island in the East River between Mahhattan and Queens, accessible by among other things, the tram. I'd love for the area around Parcel 25 in the Mission Hill flats to look like this, except with good integration with the rest of the city instead of the river...

This site, across Tremont street (in the inbound direction; this is where Tremont street charmingly turns right), is an empty lot being sold by the MBTA to the Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services organization, the same people who successfully developed the Brigham Circle space with the...

Oh crap, I forgot to divide events by 365: events last only one day. That means our average population is actually about 744,030. Oops.

OK, time to crunch numbers. Mmm, numbers. I'm feeling lazy, so I'm just going to post the MatLab commands used instead of anything more elegant. Following from above it should be pretty self-explanatory. For example, work/3 means I'm counting each worker (i.e. commuter from elsewhere) as one...