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I’d prefer something more exciting, but if the free market wants Dicks in the Back Bay I guess that’s how the property owner gets the biggest bang for his buck.

No thanks!

It looks it’s best from Tremont, and invites the curious. Other angles are less felicitous, inviting comment. Among its peers: much better than the maudlin Famine Memorial, not as good as the elegant Holocaust Memorial. It is much cleaner than the hippie encampment that occupied the very same...

Minor quibble: I wish the grey vinyl siding up top was limestone colored.

1949-51 Nash Airflyte

I wish that was real!

Quite right. It was shockingly cheap looking even when new. The cloak of invisibility is an upgrade.

^^^ Agreed! But with our Solons in charge I’ll give you 3 to 1 that the result will give the phrase “lame ass” a bad name.

Needs more Palladian windows. And a bigger parking lot.

^^^ In that case, an apt placement for vulture capitalists

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Now this is a building I’d like to see.

Toll Brothers? It’s one thing having a tall building that resembles stacked corrugated boxes. It is quite another having a tall building made of actual cardboard.

Buckoo’s picture is very interesting. Fenway Park was ramshackle compared to (not pictured) Braves Field.

The “Told in Stone” videos on Ancient Rome are great. This particular one was fun. If he had included prevailing wages (this is/was a public building project), his labor cost estimate would have increased substantially.