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all the universities are definitely in motion -- a bit slower, but not that much slower than the rest of the economy as a whole. and much faster than, say, healthcare or government. off the top of my head: mit is moving into cambridge (UK) and online (opencourseware). Columbia invested...

you made me smile after a hell of a day -- thanks. :-) but i don't agree with your first comment on my comment... i guess i'm just pointing out that the historic antecedents for the two bridges are pretty significantly different -- you might as well lay one society up against the other...

that's not quite fair. the pretty bridge comes out of a very different social and economic structure -- the people not dropping concrete blocks off of it are freeloading on the backs of the peasants of the mid 1800s (or thereabouts). our bridge might look stunning if it was constructed under...

hmmm.... guess i'll let you get away with that... though i'm kinda partial to the eggheads over at UMB... ;-)

you sure that's not anti-elitism bias? i don't hear people mumbling (in the same way) about NU, UMB, Suffolk, etc...

re: the research universities as a group (paid for by the same): http://www.appleseedinc.com/reports/Boston_summary.pdf re: harvard university: http://www.community.harvard.edu/economic_impact_report/EconomicImpactReport.pdf also, you guys may be interested in the Boston Foundation's...

darkfenx, why is glass in and of itself a good thing?

nice post, inthehood and others. trying to pull together a couple of threads... to the idea of not having enough of a f500 footprint in boston: not interested at all. boston works more on a small scale because of its greatest asset: brainpower and creativity. the more large companies the...

the city doesn't need to grow. it either is growing or it isn't -- it's economic, not because it wants to. (not that i don't know what you mean). but listen to how it comes across. if you said the same about beacon hill, or Lincoln (where i am now -- lots of nimbys...) you'd get an ear...

ablarc -- for once i can't agree with you. i don't know about all three of the places you used for comparison, but I do know something about Chinese cities (i've lived in Hangzhou and Taichung, and know Shanghai and Taibei circa 1991 fairly well, as well as others to a lesser degree). I...

that looks like store front along the road perpendicular to boylston (across from the bar / garage / theater). that whole length of the building is blank wall today, right? am i seeing this correctly?

fantastic pictures -- especially the mid level near DTX. i'm pretty sure Matt D.'s Departed view was from a building at 2 o:clock from where that shot was. i'll have to check, but i thought i remembered seeing the fountain across from Ashburton place.

vanshnookenraggen, i actually like the true color rendering you posted better then the others -- mainly because it makes the base buildings look roughly the same mass horizontally as the tower above. and at least in that view the tower doesn't look horribly fat -- has a kind of golden ratio...

nice pictures, kz. in the mock up, what's the story with that rock looking layer? is that really dimension stone, or is that just what it's supposed to look like?

moreover, its not a numbers game based on just this site. the people on this forum and its predecessor almost certainly are the architecture and urban planning "opinion leaders" in their respective crowds. well thought out posts w/backup links, photos, materials, etc. probably have more impact...

here's a link to a picture of the Stump. http://www.zyra.org.uk/stump.htm i don't remember the building too well (see too much gothic architecture as a twelve-year old and it starts to blur), but i climbed to the top and i remember the view being similar to what you get from the pru. Stump...

are you talking about the Boston, England Stump? how cool would that be?! I saw the stump from the moors outside Boston once -- very dramatic given how flat the city is. when was that proposed?

fwiw, the old ICA was beautiful inside and out. much more welcoming. inside there was a sense of purposeful chaos (from what i remember). and that little corner of the world between the Boston Film-Video Foundation, ICA, Berklee, the Conservatory, Hort Hall, and Symphony, as well as NEU...

fairly short hop from Mass Ave one direction, or from Huntington. among other options, you used to be able to get a bus from JFK there. there's interesting cityscape over that way. was a bit gritty last time i was there (early 90s, so actually what do I know?) i'd vote for city hall over...