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It's the perversely perfect bookend to that other hideous mid-80s landscaper on the far opposite end of the Downtown core, the Tip O'Neill federal building on Causeway St. (I'd argue the latter is far more devastating to the immediate urban fabric in that it's so close to the Lindemann complex...

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

It's possible, just possible, that a radically different sensibility informed the design of high-rise office environments in... [checks notes] ... 1957, when Paul Rudolph was envisioning 133 Federal? (Also, is it possible, just possible, that the building's 21st-century tenants substantially...

Tell that to the folks who brought you the 300+ luxury residential units stacked immediately above 133 Federal?

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Just a nitpick, but, this assertion is just wildly, ridiculously inaccurate, if you include PP Mall Garage. When I first started commuting from PVD just before the pandemic, the first day I drove in and parked at the garage embedded within the PVD train station, I complained to the parking-lot...

We did the Blackstone Valley polar express holiday train last night--delightful again. Admittedly, it was a little early in the holiday season for it--but that brought the unexpected benefit of our train car being only about 50% full and thus much less stuffy and more relaxing than when we...

I deeply appreciate your exasperation wading through an endless sea of boring soul-crushing conformist mediocrity, but for what it's worth whatever (very very small quantity of) towers get proposed and built in Downtown (barring unforeseen economic stagnation or outright catastrophe) with the...

A few other crucial factors at play here: --if the Celtics built and owned an arena with themselves as the primary tenant--for the 325 other nights a year when they're not playing, how are they going to fill the joint with paying gigs--from Taylor Swift and Nate Bargatze to monster-truck...

Should we be intrigued that the legislative paladin pushing to expose the full sordidness of whatever took place with the Pike plaza vendor procurement fiasco is, per AI, the "key champion" of South Coast Rail? That is, if Montigny uncovers something that is so thoroughly grotesque, would he...

I mean, the death sentence was practically pronounced as of last April; it was merely a question of finding one additional justification to heap upon the monumental debacle that was: Gov. Maura Healey thinks her top transportation deputy used a “very poor choice of words” during her recent...

In the 1960s, then-Mayor John Collins reportedly gasped as the design was first unveiled, and someone in the room blurted out, "What the hell is that?" https://architectuul.com/architecture/boston-city-hall

Prince Of Anti-Urbanist Design Le Corb says, tiens ma biere* *(hold my beer)

It's a pretty sad commentary (or is it marvelous indictment?) of the sorry state of American intercity rail relative to Western Europe and East Asia. Consider that Worcester: --is imbedded within the immensely wealthy Greater Boston metro (pop: 4.9M) --commands a mini-metro that itself is 860K...

What's truly spectacular about the endless repetition of the "70-story skyscrapers" mantra is it shows that every.single.last.journalist. who regurgitates it couldn't be bothered to take the ten seconds to study these maps from the final PLAN: Downtown iteration which just got passed. Which...

It did in fact make it on Thursday's BPDA Board meeting Agenda (items #18/19): https://bpda.app.box.com/s/su9f9o73ltf8u3j5iwmhipq4hm9ma2k1 P.S. in the Herald's-gonna-Herald department, the paper did publish this anti-PLAN op-ed...

Per Wikpedia, there are now almost 70 rail trails in Mass., and their combined length is equivalent to the distance on I-95 from Portsmouth to Philly. As late as 1979, however, the year before the Cape Cod Rail Trail opened, there were none. Thus, deep into the adulthood of the Baby Boomers...

This project should be so lucky. In return for a 52-month pause in construction activity (Nov. 2008--April 2013), we got the following: 1.) A "clean slate" at the site where the 1 Franklin residential tower rose--a lot of nasty intensive demolition work was done by the Vornado/Hynes project to...

The criminal stupidity of such a proposal is laid bare by the tens of thousands of preexisting SFH units in metro Boston that be suddenly rendered retroactively illegal. Vast swaths of Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, Quincy, Everett, Medford, Malden, Revere, Saugus--and probably even some of the...

For what it's worth, he's getting beautifully roasted and ratioed in the comments section, with numerous posters ridiculing him for his ridiculous strawman argument.