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Re: South Station Tower Do people here love those soulless glass boxes? Entire exterior walls that are all windows are nice for those on the inside. At least that's something. The design though, at least in the seaport, just feels like a bunch of random shapes. Inoffensive but far from...

Re: South Station Tower That old steamboat would be a nice addition to the waterfront. Someone could put a bar on it. :p That German building is gross. A pile brick/stone/concrete? prison walls at the bottom and a stupid incoherent computer design project above it. I swear, that garbage is...

Chinatown is gross. It's dirty, the buildings are poorly maintained, and the area often smells terrible because trash is piled on the streets. It's not Skid Row but compared to the North End, Beacon Hill, Bay Village, Back Back, the South End... it's a mess. A West End style raze and rebuild...

Construction on the second, smaller portion of the City Square apartments appears to be under way. Windows are installed in the larger portion and cladding is going up, the garage looks complete. The hotel across the street is about 4/5 floors up at this point. I think it caps at 6. There has...

The excerpt from the Declaration of Independence over the doors is easier to stomach than what is above the entrance of the old Worcester Courthouse: "Obedience to Law is Liberty". I've always wondered if it it was placed there due to a misunderstanding of the word "liberty" or if intentional...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport It certainly would but there were no older brick buildings in the Seaport. The area was an asphalt field. It was destined to be filled with buildings of similar style because the buildings are all being built within a short period of time. The...

Where was the old B&N located in DTX? For some reason I thought it was in the current flagship Walgreens location but that can't be right.

This post and argument is ludicrous. Businesses are just the people who run them and those people changed many times over the years. Situations change too, even if the same people remain. Harping on inconsistency is almost always just pointless distraction. For the record, I don't support the...

A second one is opening? Or is the one across from the Ritz moving?

I think we saw the peak of slim/tight/fitted and the current trend is toward marginally roomier clothing. Think "tailored" cut instead of "slim" cut. Lapels and ties are starting to get marginally wider (maybe .25" or .5") and cuts will come along too. Those '90s and early '00s era cargo shorts...

Stalinist architecture can be spectacular. It's not the 50s-70s era Soviet concrete stuff.

That crane is for the steel starting to go up for the City Square hotel. About half of the first floor is now done. The first half of the City Square apartments/condos is now up and garage work appears underway but nothing really above ground there. The other half of the apartments/condos...

The Art Museum strikes me as an entity that is very content doing what it is doing right now, at the size it is at right now. It doesn't have many (any?) major area power brokers driving it. It's a nice thing and seemingly competently run but ambitious it is not. The floor space inside is...

Just because Emerson has helped doesn't mean the college should be able to gut and sterilize other portions of the block. Additionally, I thought the Colonial's fate was still up in the air? Last I heard Emerson wanted to completely destroy it in favor of a student dining hall project.

Typical Worcester. That thing doesn't belong there and it's obvious it doesn't belong there... but it's going to get built. Wasn't the original plan to drop it on the other side of Kelly Square? That might make some sense.

Character? Much of it is in squalor. There is trash everywhere, it smells (seriously, the streets stink, especially Harrison/Tyler/Hudson between Kneeland and Beach), many buildings are in rough shape, and few are actually worth saving. Chinatown needs a serious shove in the right direction. As...

It has been increasingly depressing in that mall for a few years now. The Auburn Mall has the slight declining feel that the Greendale Mall had maybe 10 years ago. I think Auburn is getting a movie theater and cash injection though. We'll see. Increasing business in Blackstone and Northboro have...

I don't buy there because the arms are always too short but there has been a lot of buzz over the cuts getting roomier. They have a bit of a cult following and the folks who liked their formerly slim cut button downs are not thrilled.

Why would there be outrage? Only a few blocks away Mount Carmel is actually still in use (by a dwindling congregation), has its interior and windows intact, and is going to close and likely be torn down due to the rapidly deteriorating condition of the exterior. Few are chirping about it despite...

It looks like a shiny chicken coop mixed with a faceless government intelligence agency's office.