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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    I think there's a reasonable chance of an "Assabet-Freeman connector" assuming the MBTA plays ball. The trail is already more or less there for most of the route. The connection between the Reformatory Branch and the BFRT will never happen. Concord recently freaked out about even the idea of...
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    Nubian Ascends (Blair Lot) | 2164 Washington | Roxbury

    Here's one tweak that I think would look cool: have the glass at the building corners be curved to give the effect of a round glass shape inside a squared off basket, with space between the basket weave and the glass at the corners. Maybe even have a bow in the glass wall from the top of...
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    Copper Mill Development | Elm Street and Grove Street | Davis Square

    That's funny. I was a tufts kid in 1994 and it definitely was not on students' radar then, but I went there a few times because they didn't ask for ID. The record definitely skipped a groove when I walked in there, but it was a friendly enough place.
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    Copper Mill Development | Elm Street and Grove Street | Davis Square

    My knowledge of Sligo's hasn't been updated since my last time in there in 1994 (the only other bars in Davis at the time, Redbones and Johnny D's, carded), but is Sligo's a popular place now? 30 years ago it was not exactly jumping.
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    There's actually some interesting trail options between West Concord and South Acton that are close to, but not on, the MBTA ROW. People are looking into making this ARRT/BFRT connection. If you can get to Old Stow Road where it crosses the Fitchburg Line, there's trails through old industrial...
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    This will never happen, and I say this as someone who has been involved in planning and funding of projects like this in Concord and having spoken to Concord's town staff about this exact idea. The opposition that would come from the Nashawtuc Hill neighborhood to reestablishing the bridges and...
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    New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett

    This thread started in 2006. And if I recall correctly, it replaced a thread on the old ArchBoston board that I started a few years before that. What's the rush?:)
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    Life Sciences Bldg | 4054 Mystic Valley Parkway | Wellington | Medford

    I count more than 3 cubes.
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    "The Garage" | 36 JFK Street | Harvard Square | Cambridge

    That looks nonconsensual.
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    Porter Square Infill and Small Developments

    My son went to a daycare that was in the back of that ^ church when he was about a year old. The childcare center was relocated to make room for this project. My son is now a freshman in highschool. That is all.
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    Two Congress | Bulfinch Crossing East Parcel | West End

    Oh, a crane. I was hoping for more of a Jenga approach.
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    Seaport Neighborhood - Infill and Discussion

    It's true I picked old examples. But perhaps that is reflective of our general turn away from investing in our public buildings, of which the Moakley is a counter-example for which I'm appreciative. As you allude, it does occupy a particularly special spot, but for me it works: the glass...
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    Seaport Neighborhood - Infill and Discussion

    Seems to me that there is a long tradition of public government buildings being keystones in cities, and in my opinion they should get prime locations, so long as they are prime buildings. Think of the Statehouse, Customs House, Public Library, the Old Courthouse before it was hidden away. And...
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    "The Garage" | 36 JFK Street | Harvard Square | Cambridge

    I spent one year as a kid living in Cambridge, about 1985. Twelve years old with not much to do but skateboard around (I was a little too young to hang in the Pit) and flip through albums at Newbury Comics and Strawberry's. The Garage was one of my favorite spots to hang out--so many slices at...
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Chainmail ... and a pipe. Don't overlook the pipe. "A rugged Minnesotan farm upbringing punctuated with quixotic escapism made for Karl Unnasch's background." Oh, of course!
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    Oxford Office Bldg. | 125 Lincoln St | Leather District

    I have a really hard time explaining why, but I kind of like that screwball parking garage, and I'm a certified parking garage hater. I can imagine, in its time, it was pretty innovative in the way it combined uses. The parking levels are almost elegant, at least compared to the typical precast...
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    Charlestown Infill and Small Developments

    ^by saying it is "contextual," I was being snide about it fitting in with the '60s era public housing across the street.
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    Charlestown Infill and Small Developments

    Well, at least it's contextual. My fear is that as the various HOPE programs revitalize the actual public housing, this shitbox will be left sticking out like a sore thumb.
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    New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett

    Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium Could this be related?: https://www.boston.gov/public-notices/47921
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    New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett

    Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium You made me go back and look at page 1 of the thread. 2006, Ron Newman, ablarc.... wow.

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