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No. Those buildings are almost universally bad, but these are worse.

Before and after

Was there anything worth saving that wasn’t saved?

YES.

Demolishing Fenway would have been an ownership error even larger than selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees.

But it's true. It does. That's how culture just works sometimes. Things get associated because of proximity and repetition.

Architecture for the mentally ill.

We get the city we pay for.

I don’t think a single craftsman worked on any component of this project in any way.

Everybody on this forum can and must participate in this meeting.

Sorry, but if the winning development cannot afford to build the development that they proposed, then the parcels need to go to the runner up. You can't bait and switch.

Since this is a substantial departure from the proposal that won the RFP, this should go back out to bid.

If only Harvard Square already had a purpose-built entertainment venue already sitting there.

lol there are a lot of bad ideas on this forum and this is one of the worst

If this is the quality of new construction, then NIMBYism makes total sense.

The city needs to eminent domain that parking lot.

A German social housing project would have considerably better design, materials, and density.

Very weird that it’s only rounded on one side.

Cheaper to knock them down and start over.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea from an urban planning front. However, the idea is probably to move the NOAA offices to Madawaska Maine and require in-office presence, then, when the workers cannot do that, they can be fired for cause.