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Idea - What if we wrote VHB a check for 100 million dollars for them to call us names during public meetings and produce a design that is ultimately unworkable?

In NYC this is 4k a month

I think this is a fair point but the problem with the example posted is that it's a filthy urban street that is mostly for cars and has no trees, barely any sidewalks, poor retail activation. If it looked more like a dense street in China or Japan it might be more livable. I think a better...

Sure but we seem unable to fix the aesthetic part either, so, what can you do. I agree that architects are not incredibly capable at this part, but despite our fascist focus on aesthetics over the practical we have yet to convince an architect through law or coercion to produce a building the...

Oh the email I'm about to write is going to be so nasty, lol

I feel like this point always misses that there's nothing magical about 3 story buildings that makes them denser than 6 story buildings... Somerville lacks uses other than residential and is densely built out so of course it has a high density. If you kept Somerville's street grid and built 60...

Going to be tough for the residential rental market to absorb...

Everything for the SFH owners! Give up whatever that law is, the mortgage interest tax deduction, 30-year fixed mortages, fannie and freddie, and then we'll talk about losing rent control.

We could also try not paying as much for transit projects.

Getting out of the revs game and walking onto the casino floor and just goin straight across to the Chinese restaurant 🔥 I love urbanism

I think moderates like Maura need to realize that the more you squeeze renters every year, the demands are only going to get stronger until you have some version of NYC’s laws and politicians that support them. They had their “shot” with the communities act (which hasn’t reduced costs) but in...

Wouldn't you want more wind turbines anyway since the missiles would presumably explode if they impacted one?

When has anyone in the government ever been concerned with reining in transit costs? If the AG wants to grandstand about this they should figure out why we have to pay significantly more than peers for the same work

Honestly it does seem like a good use of space. We don't get a lot of thin buildings anymore like that. Though, "architecture towards neutral" is an almost too on-the-nose indictment of the state of architecture in 2025, lol.

I do like the implication that there is exactly one competent official in the entire MassDOT apparatus so they just have to use him everywhere

We should get some guys together and put up some new ones at Hynes, Forest Hills, etc. I can borrow hard hats and vests from work.

I don't really find the fact that a public project has slowly escalating project costs to be interesting/news to me. That doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the Legacy will use the stadium 10 years from now or not.

This is just pure robbery by consultants if it costs 70 million dollars to make this work. The T needs to root out the culture that we have to take these firms at their word...

You’re talking to ChatGPT. I wouldn’t bother.

To me this building is the end of Corporate Memphis art, the idea that our rentiers are fun, colorful, diverse, and yet apolitical. This building, while a product of capital accumulation and speculation, actually succeeds in marrying the aesthetic aspirations of corporate America to something...