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This looks like a big project to redevelop very dated public housing into a large mixed income, mixed use community in Charlestown. Take a look at the DPIR. What do you think? http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/bunker-hill-housing-redevelopment

If MassDOT ever builds a West Station...

It really seems like they are building a LOT of parking overall.

Gosh except for some plantings in the front, it looks like they paved that entire site. How was THAT approved?!

I really hate this trend of making the penthouse floor silver so that it "disappears." It doesn't disappear. It actually sticks out more. I wish they would just more authentically make it part of the building. You can still have a cornice line below it, but just be honest that there's a floor...

Originally, they were planning to rebuild the Lowell St Bridge. I'm guessing that is no longer the case?

A rowhouse on my street a few blocks from the Harriet Tubman House in the South End was just gut renovated and sold for $1400 per sq ft. It was two units: One sold for $3.625M and the other for $2.62M. So, the gentrification ship has LONG sailed for this neighborhood. The demand is HIGH and...

I'm very confused by the layout of this station. There's a long walkway and THEN elevators?!

It's amusing/frustrating that pretty much every design deficiency that advocates have pointed out when a roadway is being reconstructed ends up being revised/corrected later on. (In this case, the missing 4th crosswalk.) Why can't they just do it right the first time?!

The City of Boston has completely botched this project, and now they just don't want to admit that they don't actually need $25M of Federal funding anymore. They've spent 10 years paying consultants to come up with plans that most people don't like.

What happens when you try to make an architectural statement with an extremely low budget? Here's a bunch of different materials and colors all mixed together, with white trim! What a hot mess.

I don't hate it. It's different at least. The bottom part is very 1970s college campus. The top part is very 2010s office park. :-)

How does something get approved and then something else get built?! What's the point of approvals?!

Charging for parking is also a good way to manage parking. Some households need zero spaces. Some need 2 or more. Let people pay for what they need.

This would be a great place for a Target.

Gray and white is the new beige.

Boston has been feeling a lot like Montreal these days, and I love it!

Those Brookline examples are such a shame because of the insane minimum parking requirements. Basically anything new in Brookline has a huge garage door or driveway on the ground floor rather than a nice front porch or garden.

MassDOT managed to put in everything that everyone asked for but in a way that sucks for everyone. It's pretty impressive actually. For example, why does a BRAND NEW STREET NETWORK that doesn't exist today consist of all 4-5 lane streets?! Isn't the point of a grid that each street can be...

Totally agree sm89! Just look at Mass Ave. It started as striped bike lanes, and over time the City upgraded much of it to protected lanes. Same thing with Comm Ave by BU. Simpler improvements generate more bicyclists, which then generate political will to make the facilities even better.