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    The Problems with Bike Shares

    Bingo. This is were one inserts the perennial reference to The Netherlands or Copenhagen. The Dutch cycle everywhere all the time without helmets. Amsterdam has more bikes than people and bikes are the most utilized mode of transportation in the city. This wasnt always the case and isn't...
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    View Boston (Observatory) | Prudential Tower | Back Bay

    Haha thanks Equilibria, I was being a bit facetious. ;) It's more that the rendering is bad (or silly) and the programing of the space is strange. Are those selfie stations with wall-mounted cameras? Who is going to pay for that or give their personal info to get that photo? What is with the...
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    View Boston (Observatory) | Prudential Tower | Back Bay

    Does anyone know how to interpret this render? I have so many questions.
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    Foundation Medicine/Hasbro | 400 Summer Street | Seaport

    I like both elevations, and they are both worlds better than the standard glass curtain wall, especially brick elevation. But WHY do we need both, that joint is just so weird...
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    Suffolk Downs Redevelopment | East Boston/Revere

    ^So I guess they aren't going for timeless and instead chose chaos. The form is fine but the colors and the details 😐.... anyways cheers to more housing!
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    Boston Landing | New Balance Complex | Brighton

    Very tangential, but the landscaper cake for me is this building and noise barrier combo outside or Utrecht in the Netherlands. Apparently they like this approach so much there is another, smaller, one just up the road.
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    Boston Landing | New Balance Complex | Brighton

    I like it . I see it less as an uneven stack of books and more of a modern take on 'wedding cake' steps backs. If this building were taller and kept this rhythm up the building I am sure it would have a very pleasing silhouette. As it is, its still a big improvement over an unarticulated slab. I...
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    Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

    I guess I am implying a different standard for the term daring here. I don't even mean a daring architectural design necessarily but the daring required of a developer to really transform a site, proposal a new urban form, or change an existing condition that might at all be contentious...
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    Hurley Building Redevelopment | 19 Staniford St | West End

    I have long thought the the trauma from urban renewal likely means it was the last interesting and original thing many places like Boston will do. I feel as though the ethos in places scarred by urban renewal is 'do no further harm' which means erring on the side of the existing condition even...
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    I have also thought about an intercollegiate museum which makes the most sense to be housed in a municipal/state museum. I'd also love to see the Westend Museum be part of a larger permanent collection.
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    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    I feel like a designer on this board could make a great flow chart/decision tree out of this. Slap it on some tee shirts or a tote bag, boom merch. i'd buy one.
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    Cambridge Crossing (NorthPoint) | East Cambridge/Charlestown | Cambridge/Boston

    This has to be for finished photography, maintaining this is going to be near impossible.
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    Development Map and Chart

    bldup just posted this teaser on Instagram. Anyone have other deets?
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    New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett

    If they are smart they will locate the stadium inland and develop the waterfront with hotels, housing, and shops.
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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    That and they need set backs. This is just bad, massive, instantly dated, doesn't fit the site at all.
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    380 2nd Street | Everett

    Everett, Boston's LIC?
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    585 Kendall | 585 Third Street | Kendall Square

    I feel like the same general economics of supply and demand which underpin housing gentrification apply here and that the root of the problem is is a lack of supply of new luxury project that is causing commercial gentrification of these class B spaces. I suspect that this is made worse by the...
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    585 Kendall | 585 Third Street | Kendall Square

    I know I am like a day late, hundreds of millions of dollars short, and mostly delusional but I like the current design, its just like 700' short. My PowerPoint dream:

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