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Right on. Boston obviously can build overscaled glitzy bus stations with the rest of them so I don't get the gripe. The South Station busway is dismal, but consider that it's in a subterranean spaghetti bowl with the red line and I-93, and under one of the country's busier rail hubs, and in...

Can we take out Storrow and put in buildings now to prove this statement true?

i'm not calling it a success, i'm just not calling it a hopeless tragedy and the worst decision to befall an urban area since Moses died (you can pick which Moses you want to use). And how does a park conflict with "cities being cities"? Near as I can tell great cities, even the most dense...

You're right, developers probably don't care, thats the job for local officials. Theoretically boards and commissions of local approval pay attention to the supply/demand of landuse in an urban area and zone/rezone or approve/deny to avoid gluts and shortages. I think. I answer to both groups...

So urban open space is a closed system? A great park can't generate new uses and users? How is it that a new tower with a million square feet of office space is not just stealing people from down the street?

Just rode the greenway back from a meeting.... i was intimately familiar with it two years ago but since leaving the north end I'm never over there. So here was a chance to hit Caffe Paradiso, get some sun, smell the ocean, and see the big hammock everyone is buzzing about. And maybe it was...

Honeylocust, Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis A great urban tree, it is all over the city, notably in Quincy Market. Also Paley Park in NYC makes great use of these.

ha, i did the same thing. Even in the middle of a 16 hour flight I couldn't sustain interest beyond the first 10 minutes, eventually i just fast-forwarded to all the exterior shots to see how they painted the city. Man what an awful movie, I can't think of any worse to come out in the last 10...

Midtown and Wall Street sell on postcards and in tourist albums but ask anyone who has spent significant time in New York which parts of the city are indispensable to it being "world class" and i don't thik you won't see much of a correlation to height. The more I hear the "skyline" argument...

So true-- roads and sidewalks are outdated 20th century novelties, just public parks in sheep's clothing. Lets fill those gaps! I dream of a city of without room for windows, just party walls as far as the eye can see.

That's my hometown! Toledo Loud, Toledo Proud, BITCHES!!!!!!

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How about we open Washington street but close tremont from park to boylston or get it down to one or, god, two lanes), thickening the edge of the common to something fitting its use, and populate it with cafes, outdoor seating, etc (a las ramblas in bcn). There is tons of traffic outside park...

for real? What about this drawing do you find such a vast improvement? I'm no fan of pei, nor of the massing of the building, but moving through the building, and around it down to the water, are two of the more remarkable spatial experiences in the city. They capitalize on its location, which...

Re: Suffolk Dorms / Modern Theatre I disagree, if you look at the previous iteration you'll see they've put back every inch of stone, and then some (they've added detail at the top). It would be silly to "restore" that brick wall, or to try to mimic the grand facade down the side. 1910 or...

It's not a design though-- it's two 2D shapes extruded and some windows blocked through... maybe it will be in the details? but this is just blah. I don't get the selection of Vinoly at all. He wouldn't even be my #1 choice of architects named Rafael. Decades ago when they did the first...

under the lechmere viaduct looking towards science museum?

Is that plywood building pre-phase 1? The only work I know of is that building and some infrastructural work between in the space between the T station headhouse and Columbus Ave. Hyde Square, or that corner, feels more urban architecturally but is in a sad state with the still-vacant Milky...

Alot going on, I've been meaning to start this thread for a long time.... Sorry I wasn't more thorough, but I had to get to work. I at least stopped my bicycle to take them, though. BLESSED SACRAMENT CAMPUS REUSE http://www.jpndc.org/bss.php...

not even, all they had to do was to stop pumping the water out..... evidenced by all of the great abandoned marble quarries in Vermont that are now swimming holes. And I agree that the ocean helps, but Paris has a famous and very old quarry park in the middle of the city, Parc des Buttes...