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I would have loved to see part of City Hall Plaza set up as a "permanent" food truck park, where trucks could station around a central seating area.

It was built this way so that the commuters coming from Quincy and Braintree never had to mix with the folks from Dorchester (i.e. racism.) Originally the Braintree Line didn't even stop at JFK/UMass.

Stations in highway medians are generally terrible for transit. They are LOUD and unpleasant to stand when waiting, and it is very hard to create a pleasant and safe walking route to and from them. I would highly recommend against them. It is much better for stations to be in areas where...

How I would solve Boston's housing shortage: - Convert many of the pre-war downtown office buildings to housing - Permit new housing on every surface parking lot within the City of Boston - Replace low density public housing with mid-rise walkable mixed use development (mixed income housing +...

I guess we're just not doing cornices anymore?

Ugh such a wide curb cut too

I think MassDOT is over-engineering this so-called "bridge" project. Way too many ramps and far too much complexity.

I don‘t understand anything about this building and I think it looks terrible. The asymmetric windows, the grouping of multiple floors to look like one big floor, the 3D elements that don’t line up. Do architects actually think this is good?

I am so much happier with the final approved design than the original one. It’s stately yet modern and will anchor that corner nicely. The South End is really all about traditional architecture with high quality materials and detailed ornamentation. It is not about quirky designs, asymmentry, or...

Ugh that's a tan turd right there.

In 2021, we should be shrinking or removing highways, not taking private land for them. There are much simpler solutions to BU giving up land and having to partially demolish buildings in order to preserve an 8 lane highway and 4 lane "parkway."

There really is no reason for the Mass Pike to be 8 lanes through the throat section. It's 6 lanes west of Newton Corner and 6 lanes east of Copley Square (as well as only 6 through lanes through the Allston interchange today), so those extra 2 lanes are really not providing much benefit. This...

Lots of blank walls and garage doors due to minimum parking requirements. I guess it's not such a big deal if it's on a side street, but it's still not great.

Well... it's a building all right.

Did you guys catch this? "They also agreed not to oppose Gold should he seek to redevelop the building now occupied by Turtle Swamp." Gold really has some nerve doesn't he? He's opposing all the development around him (he's also opposing the senior housing proposed next door) but uses a...

If the new dorms are too expensive and students are choosing cheaper off-campus housing instead, wouldn't NU have trouble filling the dorms and then have to lower the price?

I think all 3 of them are trying to do too much.

That stretch of Columbus is looking better and better because of Northeastern's development. And the vast majority of it hasn't displaced anything except for surface parking and abandoned lots. Also, Janey has now lost my vote. Good grief:

Strong Towns is all about traditional development patterns and human-scaled buildings. I could see them having issues with the Seaport in that the building footprints are too large and it's being built essentially all at once. This means that the retail spaces will typically be large and have...

The thing about Brutalist architecture, though, is that at least I could tell that architects were trying to say something, even if I don't totally agree with what they were saying. With buildings today, I feel like the message is "we give up."