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Yes, the law tower is too far away to be comfortably framed with the Back Bay skyline. This new building and it's location has a dramatic effect, and I'm not even a big fan of skyline porn.

Looks so much more welcoming

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/uncategorized/about-that-i-90-throat-section-along-the-charles/

By "experience" do you mean it would have been cool to live on Neptune Rd with planes buzzing by just overhead? I get how the chaotic mash up of older cities is interesting, not sure I'd call it better.

This thing towers over the plaza and is no longer proportional to the amount of open space it encloses. The opening to the Greenway is too large as well. The whole design fails to achieve any sense of a human scale, at least from squinting at the renderings.

I'd say the seaport is a more apt comparison, and it's not gated. Wasn't harbor point originally a low income housing project later redeveloped into a mixed income community? Those types of master planned, subsidized neighborhoods tend to have more limited connectivity, especially if they were...

Seems a bit out of place for the neighborhood. Are they upzoning this area?

Then go down Vassar. Fuck em. No neighborhoods down that stretch and it's a no man's land after Mass Ave anyway. Only half serious but the idea of elevated Blue is intriguing. An elevated station at Mass Ave would turn that shitty intersection into something cool, like the Beachmont station that...

Back around 2005-2006, I was part of the community planning sessions, facilitated by Von Grossman & Company, for "Gateway East", as this section of route 9 was referred to at the time. It seemed roughly half of the participants wanted this stretch to become an urban, mixed use corridor while the...

Those concept sketches are encouraging. I'd like to see more emphasis on the Washington St corner since that's a key piece in bringing that commercial corridor across McGrath. I'd love for Washington to become more like Cambridge St or Mass Ave, providing solid connections between squares, in...

That was a quick half hour. I thought the music was great. Production reminded me a bit of Koyaanisqatsi. Great find. Thanks for posting.

Holy shit! I check the archives daily but had never seen that one. Amazing footage!

Boston Tapestry sculpture being installed at the Prudential Center, 1960s.

Broke my like button on this thread. I always dug the Simple Simon and the Pie Man terrazzo inset under the mat near the front door at the Uno's in Kenmore, leftover from when that space was a Howard Johnson's restaurant. Hope it survives renovations.

Did anyone else here have hopes that one day Rutherford Ave would be something more than a surface artery? This 1950s rt128 stuff is shortsighted.

That's been the spot I'd most like to see developed and has held that rank for the two plus decades that I've been paying attention. I've never seen a mention of developing this lot. Seems like BU is content to sit on it. How unfortunate it is that they essentially control Kenmore, making...

Why do the squares on GLX get a "Sq" tagged on the end and all the other stops at squares don't? Nitpicky but they should be consistent.

Curious Liquids across the street from the state house? That place was awesome. I think it's been over 20 years since it closed. I feel like Boston was a much cooler place back then. After coffee I'd take a walk down Newbury and hit up all the record stores, browse books at Victor Hugo.

Although I do like the courthouse, I'd prefer more Rowe's Wharf, which this plan reminds me of, than the Miami Beach/Dallas/Silver Spring/Atlanta/Greenville garbage that sits around it currently.

I understand it's conceptual, but I'm always bothered by a park on the corner of a main intersection. "Squares" have a sense of place because they are an outdoor space, centered around a major intersection, enclosed by buildings with heights proportional to the span of the intersection...