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It's pretty crazy there still isn't any substantial information about this project. The most info is on the Harvard Construction Mitigation website, which lists this as the "New FAS Building," with an aerial of the existing conditions/Littauer Center as the project image.

The owner and UDC preferred the bold and sharp option with some slight modifications - the street-level apartment interface at the corner may change from their comments and it may impact the second-level balcony/all the balconies. The other remaining facade change is the UDC suggested axing the...

I suspect Scape is exiting the Boston market. They initially came in with big promises of $1 billion to invest in student housing, got backlash on each one of their projects, of which only one made it out of the ground/opened. Combined with high construction costs and a pause in college...

I was down here today as well and the flurry of construction activity around this block/side of Kendall is really impressive.

Gang Studios messed up speccing a very dark glass. With a building like their's - timber and a highly public venue, you would think a highly transparent glass would fit right in.

^What we'd be left with This is a pretty sharp proposal:

I feel the bottom portion has gotten worse this round, and the top is better this time.

The project doesn't really align with the T's current investment objectives (below), which is essentially to keep the system running. By the time they've allocated the funding for the critical "lights-on" projects, there's little to no money left for expansion. Consequently, there was no...

Using his Massport title is amusing considering everything else he's accomplished... Thomas Glynn

This and the $1.5 billion Chapter 90 funding announcement in the post prior while the T faces a funding deficit this year is quite telling..

+ White folded metal panels with a lot of angled surfaces and crevasses on the water's edge in a city will be a bit of a cleaning bill..

Even got themselves a job at RAMSA...

If you want to track only tall projects, use the 'Watch' feature at the top of the thread, then click 'Watched' at the top on the homepage. I appreciate some of the larger small projects having separate updates, especially nicer ones like this. Triple decker replacements or 5-10 unit buildings...

By a world renowned firm, nonetheless. Says something about the weight of winning an AIA Gold Medal these days...

Fair points all around. I do appreciate the stance and approach in this regard, and I am similarly growing tired of the do-nothing-and-feel-good-about-it approach. It's a good start for getting some eyes on the concept of actually doing something and feeling better about it (...but it could've...

After sitting on it for some time and seeing it at several book stores as a reminder of this thread, I'm not entirely sold on the arguments in the book as a comprehensive thesis - it's rather weak in arguing that it's all about useless policy and removing paperwork, or maybe it's that they lay...

Seems like a good time to go back to the drawing board while wrestling over funding and use some more common sense this time around...

Patriotic for July 4: Admittedly, if I wasn't told it was supposed to be a flag, I wouldn't have gotten it immediately, but it's an interesting application of tinting. I could see this being applied in much more complicated implementations once the technology takes hold...