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    BMC Ambulatory Building | East Concord & Albany Streets | South End

    Re: BMC Ambulatory Building I disagree, it's like a scaled down version of the plaza in front of the new Hancock. It's kind of overbearing and feels hemmed in. ALTHOUGH I love this as a point of discussion, and I am intrigued to start doing a mental inventory of sidewalks in Boston and maybe...
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    🔷 Open Thread

    Wait, are you that crabby old lady?
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    The New Retail Thread

    that's the one i saw too, but it made perfect sense to me when i saw it in December-- i didn't buy ipods or ipod related stuff for gifts for xmas, but I'm sure many of my fellow commuters did, and I would absolutely love to be able to buy xmas gifts 5 feet away from where I fill my Charlie Card.
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    Then and Now

    If any Globe staffers want pointers on how to line up photos, I do an hour session for $50. Yeesh, I appreciate them putting this up but it's really half assed. The NY Times uses that same slider technology and their photos line up amazingly, but when the Globe employs it they take photos that...
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    The Alcott (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

    Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building) Ouch, a blindside shot for a landscape architect, as urban minded as I may be. So we could argue each other as to whether they create vitality, but certainly at a minimum they concentrate and collect it, and rightfully play more of a primary...
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    The New Retail Thread

    If it's an "authentic American" pub with an asphalt shingle roof over the bar (installed by a real life Canadian roofer) I bet it would get a few guffaws
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    The New Retail Thread

    I don't object to it, I just [snarkily] find its premise laughable
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    The New Retail Thread

    Not really what I was saying, but I can see why you thought that. Neither are authentic. What I meant was that, to my mind at least, "authentic" is like "unique" in that it's a binary term. Something can't be "very unique", nor "kind of authentic". It either is or is not. I don't doubt the...
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    Casey Overpass

    Hmmmm.... This is a bridge near my hometown, a dilapidated, earth and concrete bridge that used to carry an interurban trolley line. It has been deteriorating and overgrown for at least the 33 years I have been around. And of course a haven for teenagers--the original High Line!
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    The New Retail Thread

    It has a thatched roof. And it's owned by a dude from Tampa with an Irish last name and a much different working definition of "authentic" than the rest of us. But hey, best of luck to him. There's plenty of room for us all in this city
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    Hancock of the day...

    Nope, before my time, both as a Bostonian and a human. I got it from the BPL flickr page, they have a ton of photos documenting the construction of that addition.
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    The New Retail Thread

    hahahaha. Oh my god, is it April 1st already?
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    Then and Now

    hahaha, i came back here after posting and i totally have a headache too now... i will slow them down tomorrow and repost
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    Then and Now

    Playing around with the BPL's flickr photos, google streetview, and photoshop I came up with these gifs below. If you have the program [and a passing familiarity with it] it is a fairly straightforward procedure to make these, and a cool way to ground some of these photos. Obviously the...
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    Brookline Infill and Small Developments

    i don't mind that side either.... i mean its a church, since when have we looked to religious architecture to be contextual? Is it any more of a sore thumb than a 100' white spire? At least it's not setback behind a 20' wide lawn like most other churches in this country.
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    Brookline Infill and Small Developments

    I like the wall the roofline plays with its neighbor[s] in this photo. I'm in the camp that is not bothered by this building in the slightest. I love the contrast and think that Brookline Village is charged by this little piece of Tokyo--it's not a game changer in the grand scheme of things...
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    Hall of Shame Nominees

    As a daily (in the winter anyway) Orange Line commuter once I got over the 1-in-20 or so occurence of a frozen door, the orange line cars are not all that bad, aesthetic atrocities aside. On more than one occasion, seeing a rust freckled beast squeal into a station has led my mind to consider...
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    Photo of the Day, Boston Style: Part IV (2011)

    ^^Where is that? I don't recognize it

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