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Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. I honestly don't understand what this project has to do with the West End/CRP. I'm just guestimating here, but it looks like at most this project would block out about 10 degrees of view for the CRP residents that have a view to begin with. I really hopes...

Re: Columbus Center ^InTheHood, very well put, sir. I think you eloquently summarized the various, significantly more profane, reactions I've had to Mr. Flaherty's posts.

Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Wow, that tower is terrific, but I'd need a stiff drink just to step out onto one of those upper-floor balconies.

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower My first thought when i looked at that rendering: pretty slick. Second thought: the salt shaker bridge looks like it's going to fall into the water.

Re: 650 E. Kendall (The No Name Cambridge Project) What are you talking about, Ablarc? That median in the second picture is gorgeous! These pictures make me sad because I now work in one of the buildings visible in the first picture, and a I ride my bike down the street in the second picture...

Re: Commemmorating the MDC As someone who grew up in another part of the country, I'm always a little bemused by the compulsive commemoration that takes place in these parts. The streets that change name by the block, the "squares" named after WWII privates that are really just stop signs, and...

Re: Suffolk Plans for Beacon Hill Arts Center "proposals for the plaza include an exhibit commemorating the history of the MDC" That's brilliant. So when people say "what's with this craptastic, poorly maintained, trash-strewn plaza?" The natural response will be "why, it's an exhibit...

^Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Not to diminish your suggestion, Ablarc, but that idea seems so obvious I'm gobsmacked that it wasn't the first thing completed on the Greenway.

I would have the street car line go near North Station, but then branch off down Washington Street, across the Charlestown Bridge, and into the Navy Yard. Probably eight out of ten tourists in Boston want to see Ironsides and/or the monument. Plus, if the Navy Yard had trolley service, it would...

Re: 45 Province St Vertical lines are awesome. Like the lines in a pinstripe suit, they add height and lose weight. This building is great. Small footprint, jammed in, makes the eye go up up up.

Re: W Hotel ^they may all be at least partially white, but they don't all look alike, which I think is Ablarc's point. I think all of Boston's cabs should be sent back to the junkyard from whence they came. There's a reason they were auctioned by the police--because they are no longer fit for...

Modern trolleys can be very sharp looking, though I'll grant that the one above does look a little like a sturgeon. I sort of like the juxtaposition of super modern trolleys in historic cities. The trolley system itself seems old fashioned, so having a modern version is almost hip. Not too long...

For me the point isn't whether we use Ye Olde Horseless Trolleys or whiz bang modern cars. In fact, I'd prefer the modern cars because I like the sexy voices they talk to me in and the lack of herky-jerkiness. Actually, given the herky-jerkies on the Silver Line bus, I guess modern doesn't...

It really is remarkable, in retrospect, that a streetcar line wasn't made part of the Greenway plans. Perhaps the determination to remove the blight of the elevated highway made it impossible to see that some infrastructure, beyond the surface road, could be a good thing. This has been discussed...

Look again. Get right up close to your screen. In several of the photos above you can see the facade--it's the gray limestone and gray brick covering up the gray concrete. Like a big gray Oreo with a delicious blue insulation filling.

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower The condo law in Massachusetts specifies that condo fees (well, percentage interests, which are what the fees are based on) should be based on market value at the time the first unit is sold, I believe. That said, a lot of condos, particularly in...

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower Quite true--I was surprised to see how high the income limits are for the affordable housing I've seen come on the market in Boston. The point remains, however, that social spending should be going to meet needs, not providing luxuries. Just because...

Re: The Merano This building suits me just fine. I don't care for pre-cast and those gimicky cornices, but the Bullfinch Triangle is a collection of work-a-day, ordinary buildings that work together as a whole. This snoozer fits right in. Look at the things they got right: no set back...

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower Ron, I think that maintaining economic diversity is critical to a city's urban fabric. And creating affordable housing is a key element of that. But putting affordable housing in this building is like handing out vouchers to Au'jourd hui instead of...

If I squint hard at the site plan above, it looks like Harvard plans on removing the ramps that connect JFK/Harvard Street and Storrow. Is this correct? That's a really big change.