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    Cambridge Crossing (NorthPoint) | East Cambridge/Charlestown | Cambridge/Boston

    Northpoint residential project Project I found online in the Northpoint area. Not sure if this is up to date, but if so interesting to have Arqitectonica working in Boston. Building itself reminds me of the McLaren in South Boston. Anyways, the link is here...
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    BCA plaza redesign winner

    Winner of the architectural competition to design the plaza around the BCA in the South End has been decided. View the website with information and images here: http://insideout.bcaonline.org/ - JS
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    Chronicle architecture story

    To air this Friday: Homepage > Local News > Chronicle Friday, Jan. 19: Durable Designs POSTED: 11:59 am EST January 11, 2007 Email This Story | Print This Story The John Hancock tower. Trinity Church. City Hall Plaza. They are icons of Boston, known around the world, sometimes fondly...
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    Harvard - Allston Campus

    Benefits of decking For all those haters who wont want to deck SFR...an article I found from today's ArchNewsNow.com: GUEST QUARTER: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Benefiting from a Cover Up Cities reap rewards for decking highways with parks By PETER HARNIK and BEN WELLE U.S. cities are...
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    Harvard - Allston Campus

    Harvard plan site Official Harvard University website news story, images, links and study can be found here: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/02.01/99-allston.html - JS
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    Seaport Neighborhood - Infill and Discussion

    GB on the SBW For those (like me) who missed Greater Boston the other day, here is a link to the story and video: http://www.greaterboston.tv/features/gb_20070108_development.php
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    Mandarin Oriental | 776 Boylston St | Back Bay

    Funny LOL Justin that was a hilarious comment, kudos! :lol: - JS38
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    City Hall Discussion - Redevelopment - Preservation - Relocation

    NY Times chimes in... ... on Menino's City Hall proposal: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/us/25boston.html
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    ICA | 100 Northern Ave | Waterfront

    Ouroussoff on the ICA The New York Times architecture review of the ICA is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/arts/design/08ica.html?hp&ex=1165554000&en=b00de32d923c38a5&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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    115 Federal St. (Winthrop Square)

    Metropolis Magazine interview with Piano An insight perhaps into the thinking of the architect of perhaps Boston's next tallest tower... Urban Journal Mixing the Sacred and the Profane Renzo Piano talks about the New York Times building, future projects, and his procured inspirations...
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    RFP for new cruise terminal

    Review the document here: http://www.massport.com/about/pdf/c_rfi_cruis_termi.pdf A good chance for a dramatic, contemporary piece of architecture to serve as a gateway to the seaport and Boston.... Lets hope for the best......... I would nominate Grimshaw as architect...
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    115 Federal St. (Winthrop Square)

    AP weighs in... Boston getting some national press.... Piano tower would give Boston a lift By MARK JEWELL, AP Business Writer Sun Nov 19, 6:18 PM ET BOSTON - A Boston businessman's proposal to build a 1,000-foot, 75-story glass-and-steel building that would tower over all others is a bold...
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    If Logan Airport were moved....

    lecture I agree, it was interesting... The Venice part was also interesting to me as I spent a semester studying in Italy while in school and got a chance to spend a few days in Venice seeing some of the things he talked about first hand... I think the point that came across was the need for...
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    Miner St. Developments | Fenway

    Answer to question No, the parking lot in the bottom right of the aerial is where Trilogy Place now is. The rendering you posted is of 1330 Boylston, which will be basically across the street from Trilogy, on the southern side of Bolyston Street, but out of sight of the aerial above. See...
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    masshort goes down I think were missing the point here. A world-class winter garden/botanical complex would have been a great addition to the Greenway. Its sad that in America there isnt funding support for such public-oriented projects. Any other new proposal is going to have the same...
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    2nd Greenway public meeting I went....again. Another introductory salutation by Menino. Then fairly interesting presentations by park planners from San Francisco and Montreal on the running and programming of those cities' major park systems and open spaces. One element from Canada that will...
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    Possible explanation for lacklustre Boston design

    An article from Slate reproduced below is an analysis of perhaps why cities like Boston and the ones discussed sometimes fail to produce excellent contemporary architecture or design....thoughts? Perhaps an emergence of a new "Boston school" of architecture discussed a while back will help...
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    BU Development Thread

    BU plots I believe the Burger King site is to become home to a new computer sciences building eventually. The Kenmore Square plot should become a mixed-use, dorm-retail-hotel development to complete the urban room of kenmore square, while that ugly grey concrete brutalist structure at the...
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    If Logan Airport were moved....

    An interesting (speculative, obviously will never happen but still food for thought) proposal for what might replace Logan Airport in about 80 years.... By the way, this guy will lecture next Wednesday at the BPL as part of the BSA Design Lecture series. I will be there, anyone else want to...
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    115 Federal St. (Winthrop Square)

    Belkin bio A little about our probable developer, bio taken from the Hawks website; Im also a Cornell alumni, but this clears up the issue of his local ties vs. why does he own Atlanta sports teams but want to build here..... Steve Belkin Board of Managers, Atlanta Spirit LLC Steven Belkin...

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