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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Exactly. I too had mixed feelings when I heard it was coming down, even though I had often wished it gone. It had two big faults: the perpetual traffic jam on the roadway, and the depressing gloom beneath. The former could have been addressed by hefty tolls or congestion charges; the...
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    Constellation Center | 43 Thorndike St | East Cambridge

    ^ +1.
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    Charlestown Infill and Small Developments

    A lot of urban Charlestown disappeared along with or just after the West End and Scollay Square, and the anticipated Orange Line relocation was particularly corrosive. The vasty spaces of Government Center pointed clearly to the future.
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    JP Developments

    Yeah, appalling, isn't it? We're into about the third generation of architects misled by anti-urban, Modernist dogma transmitted to them from Corb et al., by their teachers. Since future teachers are equally deluded, we can expect another generation or two of architects who don't know how to...
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    JP Developments

    Looks pretty decent urbanistically. ^ ^
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    Charlestown Infill and Small Developments

    What a depressing waste of land! ^ ^
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    So what are the rooftop uprights that look set to host a parapet? Will it be bronze-tone corrugated metal?
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Words. And they laid a bunch of goose eggs, didn't they? Why is the future generation of architects so imagination-challenged? Must be their [mis]education; people aren't getting stupider.
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    Atlantic Wharf (née Russia Wharf) | Atlantic Ave | Waterfront

    Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) ^ Which is worse: third rate or mediocre? From photographs, I see both new buildings slugging it out for both titles. Hodgepodges of un resolved elements. I know, I know ... you can't tell from photographs. Then why post them? Anyway, you know...
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    Atlantic Wharf (née Russia Wharf) | Atlantic Ave | Waterfront

    Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) Eloquent!
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    Hynes renovation

    This has been gone for quite a while, no? Will it ever return?
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    Is that Rindge Tech in pictures 3-5? Are they going to de-Deco-fy it? Too bad about Design Research. When will the new store move in? Could this have become a branch of Louis/Boston?
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    SHADE ... is that like SHADOWS ?
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    The New Retail Thread

    You either have word of mouth or you have clear glass.
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    The Clarendon

    Practice.
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    Andrew Square

    Parking lots at street corners, huh? Not one of the four corners at this intersection engages the pedestrian. Parking lots or parks. Where will the parks' users come from? Strollin' down the Avenue?
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    thames town - London Meets Shanghai

    ^ Gosh, did you have to add the last sentence?
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    ^ All true. Greenway needs buildings right now, before it calcifies. If four stories is all it will bear, then let it be four stories. Urban continuity vs pointless urban disruption.
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    ^ Does this belong in the Greenway thread?
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    Yesterday's vices become tomorrow's virtues, I guess. Or maybe bad taste is just more interesting.

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