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Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building) ^ No retail?

Re: Theater District Parcel P-7A THEATRE DISTRICT A FEW DECADES BACK Richard Burton?s baritone had rung the rafters for three hours in Equus. The departing crowd rustled and murmured in excited appreciation. They had witnessed something significant, and they were elated. When my girlfriend...

Re: Theater District Parcel P-7A ^ ... which ... tell the truth ... is generally not much! The Hub of the Universe ... the Athens of America ... is now the Boonies.

Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building) The concept remains suburban. Oh, those undulating and intersecting fat tipped arrows ... so mired in the Sixties along with the design! Just build retail on most of the wasted green space, and be done with it. Maybe some mom-and-pops will...

Re: Residences at Kensington Merry Christmas, Lurker.

Re: Residences at Kensington Emerson might have, but not the city. How many seats are there?

Re: Residences at Kensington Boston Theatre District is on expensive life support. Pour in the money and watch nearly nothing happen. If you think about it, it's kind of a joke.

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Roses are beautiful, right? And lighthouses are beautiful, right? But Potemkin-village screening of a building with an un-ironic image of a lighthouse ... that misses the mark by a mile; it's both comical and sad. Borrowed glory is never...

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) ^ Sounds like book knowledge.

Re: St. Cecilia Parish Hall Addition (20 Belvidere St.) Too bad they tore down the Rectory. For what? A garage entrance?

Shutter Island, a place assembled from several states and provinces. The music is similarly gathered from the best of atmospheric modernism. Scorsese again.

^ Yeah, Chauncy Street and Arch Street should define the southern border.

Boston Architectural Center Annex? Featuring the Boston Society of Architects? Harvard Club? Harvard Numismatic Collection? Peter Luger's Steak House? Guggenheim Boston?

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion I'm not sure that's a valid measure of a project's ongoing quality. In defense of this building, I'll grant that it's contextual; this is the zone of fat lumps.

There used to be a magnificent stinkweed tree in that courtyard. It almost completely filled the space. Must have rooted itself from a flying seed; no one actually plants the Tree of Heaven.

Re: South Boston Seaport ^ Makes too much sense. Flies in the face of what's taught in planning schools.

Re: 93 Massachusetts Ave Was it worth it, just for that roof terrace, to break the streetwall and lose some square footage? Is this really much better than what's there now? Looks like an oldish school building.

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion ^ The problem: many worthy projects are held up forever due to the same process. Politics? Corruption? Faulty aesthetic theories? Vendettas?

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion ^ The problem: many worthy projects are held up forever due to the same process. Politics? Corruption? Faulty aesthetic theories?

Re: Rose Kennedy Greenway Why are the development parcels encouraged to have such large footprints? This is a far bigger cause of out-of-scale buildings than their height.