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Mass Art / WIT development In the image below from the Goody Clancy website (http://www.goodyclancy.com) you can see the proposed Mass Art dorm tower at the site in front of the WIT dorm, plus some further planned development at WIT and that triangle parcel on Huntington... this was part of the...

Agent JS38 was recently able to view a draft document on the BCEC expansion not for public consumption, but managed to scan a copy of the proposed general plan for the BCEC campus expansion; the red circle is the proposed site of a new attached HQ hotel for the convention center:

New renderings From the architects, Elkus Manfredi's, new website: http://www.elkus-manfredi.com/project/longwood-center/ Looks like a cross between their Broad Center at MIT and that condo building at North Point... but I like it...

Natick lifestyle The New York Times weighs in on the project... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/realestate/30nati.html - JS

Publicity plug Shameless bump - Starts Today!!! :) Weather looks good for the weekend, so for those of you around here who can make it, I expect to see you out there at events!!! - JS

Sorry to post this here but I think you would all agree this benefits from the most exposure.... Anyways for the last few months Ive been part of this group called CommonBoston. Check out the website at commonboston.org. The short summary is that our flagship event, a citywide architecture and...

new NU dorm complex Additional images from the architect's website: http://kswa.com/portfolio/NEUP18/index.htm "Contextual to its surroundings" I would not describe this as. Only from one of those angles do I like the design. Its projects like these that create understanable NIMBY...

Project website New BU website for the Student Village II project with renderings, images, info. etc: http://www.bu.edu/studentvillage2/

From the Boston Globe business blog tonight.... Major Hynes renovation proposed An $18 million renovation plan has been proposed for the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston's Back Bay. According to the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, which owns and oversees...

Green museum Video report from Channel 5 on the "green design" of the new museum sections: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/asseenon5/12520397/detail.html# - JS

Media lab website Going from the business school back to the Media Lab expansion, here is the project website from the official architects, Maki Associates of Japan, with some project renderings I think we havent seen before. For those with time and interest, Fumihiko Maki will lecture at...

From the Slatin Report: > RESIDENTIAL | BOS 04 11 07 STARCK'S DOWNSCALE DELIGHT Peter Hellman The 367-unit Parris Landing complex in the Charlestown Navy Yard, seen from Boston Harbor. As a star of the 1972 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team and a former left wing for the Hartford Whalers, Kevin...

Waterside place public meeting I signed up for BRA meeting email alerts. Hence, if any of you are interested in going and reporting back: Please note that you have received this email because you have signed up on the BRA website to get notification of when a public meeting in South Boston...

Harvard Crimson article on art museum development Moving Pictures Despite obstacles, Harvard museums look forward to Allston Published On Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:52 PM By ANNA K. BARNET and LAURA A. MOORE Crimson Staff Writers ARTICLE TOOLS: E-mail this Article Printer Friendly...

Malls going urban Interesting article, somewhat highbrow and Eurocentric, about malls moving back into urban areas that I think is relevant to this thread for obvious reasons. From the New Statesman, linked to today on archnewsnow.com The secrets of indoor shopping Joe Moran Published 12...

sloan grows New rendering I found on the MIT Facilities webpage showing the design for the Sloan Business school expansion project soon to break ground: http://web.mit.edu/facilities/photos/construction/Sloan_exterior.jpg As for the Waterside Place renderings I just saw in the other thread...

Globe interview with Elizabeth of Diller+Scofidio From this Sunday's Ideas section: Q&A with Elizabeth Diller By Harvey Blume | February 18, 2007 Elizabeth Diller, of the architecture firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, is known in Boston for her role in designing the new home of the Institute...

Patriots place proceeds Another rendering and more info I found online here from the architects, Arrowstreet: http://www.arrowstreet.com/on_the_boards.php?otbID=110 If only all this was developed in the Seaport, where the stadium should have been, and not down in the nether-regions of Route 1...

Sarah slams the ICA From a review by Sarah Goldhagen in the New Republic on the exhibition comparing fashion design and contemporary architecture called "Skin+Bones" is this passage: "Diller Scofidio + Renfro's recently opened Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston looks fantastic from the...

Sasaki BC plan Sasaki did the masterplan process, here is their webpage on the project: http://www.sasaki.com/what/works.cgi?fid=423&page=2 Although I read somewhere that now for implementation BC has switched to another large firm, VHB, to take them through the first few phases.