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I agree-- and it would help suppress the highway mentality of drivers on the Jamaicaway.

until then....... Boston has weird, anomalous gas stations as well, such as the (now defunct) station at Hanover and Commercial Streets. Check it, the pump is maybe 5' from the curb. These other countries I think have the same standards as the US, look outside of the medieval core of any...

I wondered the same thing when I saw those in Paris, and when I got back I asked an urban planning professor, who told me it was gas station safety laws requiring certain setbacks from the roadway.

interesting idea-- timely, I think Brandeis would be interested in discussing, though Harvard and Wellesley have a considerable investment in their museum infrastructure, MIT less so, and those would be key players who may not be willing to play. I still like the idea (I think proposed...

that is a beautiful church-- very clever. I wish the open arches in the front towers were as well integrated into the main massing as the area below them. But I like it nonetheless, could stare at it for quite awhile

A gastropub on Washington street across from the Cathedral. It is near the location of the Boston Neck, where the town gallows were in the colonial days.

If you follow the link in my first post you can get the metadata for the photos, with specific years. There is a handful of Orient Heights shots, in fact.

i havent stopped looking through these, they are incredible..... over 100 photos, all but a handful I've never seen before, not your typical angles either I had no idea that the Christian Scientist Mother Church wasn't originally on Mass Ave..... St Mary's Street Bridge? When did we...

BPL posted an incredible collection of historic aerials to flickr

Re: Worst New Proposal It is, thankfully, but the proposal still happened.....

forgot that one! Definitely more immediately contextual....

I nominate Harvard Station. Though its wrinkles are deepening in its middle age and there is some very notable deferred maintenance, it is an incredible piece of work, and I can't fathom what sort of logistical acrobatics were involved in executing it. I would also have nominated Back Bay...

MFA Art of the Americas Wing Should we just commence with the voting now? Or just skip the middleman and crown it? Can we nominate runners up? If so, MIT Media Lab

Hotel Commonwealth Charlesgate Overpass Orchard Gardens School (it may work functionally, i don't know, but it is one of they ugliest buildings in Boston, with the detailing of a Walmart and the aesthetic warmth of a prison)

Re: Worst New Proposal FBI HQ South Boston

Re: Mass Art Dormitory Really? That influence you to quit architecture? Hate to be the one to tell you but your professor was wrong, you should've gotten a second opinion.

Can you provide some evidence to your cheaters claim? What are Tehrani's and Ponce de Leon's track records on research grants? I know them both and even I don't know that, curious what your info is. Also, isn't this whole pickle precisely because they didn't cheat? Cheating would be making...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion Neoscape makes music videos now? or That is like the video equivalent of a Liebskind building-- way too young to look that dated.

My questions: 1. does a light use more energy stopping and starting than when it is just on? 2. does the mechanism that is monitoring the need for light use energy? 3. does it monitor all needs for light: pedestrians, bicycles, people stepping out of buildings for a smoke, etc It's kind of...

Re: Posting of Banker & Tradesman Articles Very fair request on their part, but it does seem a bit like the Phoenix or Improper Bostonian making the same plea. Just stop by any architecture school in the Boston area, there are usually piles of B&T in the lobby. Until this I had no idea they...