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Re: Parcel 24 ^ Heh, but at the same time, who else on the internet wants to look at construction progress pictures from Boston? He stops providing links, he loses nearly all his views.

^ Right, cos no one was living in North America before the white guys showed up. If only the developers would invent a new concept, call it Shmoperty, and use it as the basis for invading the VA surface lot across the street...

Hmm...I think it's one actually: If you zoom in, you can sort of make out a sign reading "The Home for Little Wanderers"

Re: Parcel 9 - The Greenway Talk about an utterly content-less statement. And can we get a proper citation on that?

Re: New Brighton Landing | New Balance Complex Meh, or a BU dorm.

"Asian restaurant" is from the website. Look, based on Yelp reviews of the Red Lantern, I have no doubt that many people will enjoy this restaurant (which I never disputed). I'm more bothered by the contention that it's off limits to speculate about an unopened restaurant even when there is...

^^ The whole point is that it's not just another Walgreens. So you don't really "know" what it's going to be like, other than whatever you can glean from the articles posted here...

Because it's run by the same people behind a club at Foxwoods? Does it not scream Saugus to you? And "Asian restaurant"? I mean, not even "Pan-Asian" or "Asian fusion"...but...Asian? What does that even mean? Sure, maybe conventioneers from the midwest or wherever will eat this place up...but I...

God that "Asian-themed" restaurant is embarrassing. Boston, still as fratty and provincial as ever.

They're nothing alike. Classic SoMa is warehouses (now appropriated by techies), leather shops, rehab centers, and homeless shelters. So I assume you're talking about the area around 4th and King and the ballpark. Shitty soulless architecture aside, the difference between that SoMa and the...

Just because libertarianism is allegedly a "self-consistent" or "self-coherent" view doesn't make it any less crazy/tragically wrong. People are drawn to it precisely because it gives them an easily digestible, catchall framework for viewing the world. And absolutely it's to be expected on a...

The Tokyo area has a bunch of stations whose complexity is hard for the mind to grasp, and the problem is not helped with maps since these stations are served by multiple operators, each of which puts out maps only showing its own concourses. Anyway, I'm sure there are more than a handful of...

Re: Dudley Sq's Ferdinand Building to be Restored/ Renovated Hmm.. in other recent articles I've seen, the sign has been removed from the rendering. I wonder which it is. For one, I think the sign is pure awesome. Nothing wrong with putting Dudley on the map, as it were.

This:

^^ Thank you. Everyone knows you take the free airport shuttle (10 bus) to the Santa Clara Caltrain stop, then transfer to BART at Millbrae station. This part makes me LOL because that walk literally involves stepping off the train, walking 10 feet across a platform, and entering the BART fare...

If by 45 minutes to an hour you mean 15-20 (during offpeak hours, outside of the central subway), then yes. And yes...the Bay Area is a metro area, much the same way that Greater Boston is a metro area. To exclude San Jose would be ridiculous.

^ Only in Bizarro Boston, where the Fairmount corridor is the Indigo Line and a streetcar runs from Dudley to Mattapan sq. But yes. I agree. Still, there's been serious progress over the past few years: Dudley St, Dot Ave, and Blue Hill have all seen significant development in the 3-5 story...

Even if it fails as a City Hall, it succeeds brilliantly as sculpture. That counts for something. Or at least it should, given that this is an architecture forum first and foremost.

I love that the Harbor Island Pavilions and Whittier HC made this list. World class. But seriously, there were literally no other contenders? When was the Dana Farber building finished? What about that infinitely more mundane MGH building? Anything??

SMFH