Search results

Another R-1 virtual meeting on 1/20

No updates or developments to report, but since we have a nice new subforum, I figured I'd spin off a new thread to post this. A guy on YouTube has been making some micro-documentaries on interesting Rhode Island landmarks, such as the Crook Point Bascule Bridge, and he just released one about...

Definitely, there have been a number of great ideas for how to treat this chasm, but so far none have materialized, leaving the air quality dangerously poor for this largely minority neighborhood and leading to health disparities. One thought I had was, if private bidders for the difficult air...

Found a really nice mini-documentary from a few days ago bout the tunnel and bridge:

In a recent Parcel R-1 Chinatown BPDA zoom community meeting, a large amount of comments, particularly from younger members of the community, called attention to Chinatown's "worst air quality in MA" status. Many community members shared their own personal experiences growing up with asthma and...

Shawmut's LinkedIn page had some nice photos of the Brown PAC topping-off:

Really? I wasn't there at the time, but those photos look genuine, and I first heard about it from this article: Here's an aerial shot from 1969 (Photo credit): and in 1976 (Photo credit):

I can't believe that I only recently learned about the Copley Square of the 1960s - converted into a hideous concrete plaza of levels, and a mistake thankfully undone: I see a lot of parallels to City Hall Plaza. I'm sure the designers of this lovely centerpiece of urban life were well-educated...

Hey, they're cantilevering a bit over the ramp!

It does look like those tunnels could plausibly be a sort of ventilation plenum for the Green Line south/westbound tunnel, like the reddit engineer suggested. It's just surprising since there doesn't seem to be any obvious powered fan systems, and it's not clear why they're demolishing it if...

@vanshnookenraggen I think most people in a City Hall Plaza discussion are aware of the existence of the Brattle Loop. What is being disassembled is some sort of large secondary tunnel on top of the GL, which seems to also veer off with access towards JFK. Obviously a train is not going through...

Last time I was in the cancer garden on the plaza, I was noticing the "SUBWAY EGRESS" hatch and very large grate. Someone took a Google photo sphere there. Looking down into the grate reveals a rectangular concrete room exactly that size, with a single access door I believe was on the gazebo...

I think the nearby Government Center Garage project is demonstrating a great example of how to creatively rehabilitate 1960s Urban Renewal Brutalism

Brown's Performing Arts Center: There will be a live webstream of the topping-off ceremony on Thursday, December 10th at 11am:

Your developable area is intriguingly compatible with Aaron Helfand's Master's Thesis: I'm less sympathetic than you are towards the entire plaza, including City Hall itself. It was all created in an act of urban destruction, and in my view has no more right to continue to exist in perpetuity...

I'm not really sure about the best place to post this, but I came across the Transit Forward RI 2040 Master Plan that was released this August, and saw the following: This is listed as a "Short-Term Improvement", "close to launching", and in the "1 to 4 years" project list. I'm assuming...

No, it definitely looks different. For instance, the Plaza was always lacking a wall saying "R&B sound POP JAZZ NOiSe"

I hadn't read this anywhere previously, but disappointingly - at the BPDA meeting last night to discuss Chinatown Parcel R-1, it was stated that due to the Winthrop Center redesign that shortened the second tower and reduced unit number, Millennium's payments for P-12 were decreasing as a result...

Upcoming discussion on Parcel R-1, behind the majestic art-deco 75 Kneeland Street

There have been a few similar proposals that involved demolition of the overpass. This 2015 Massachusetts Turnpike Boston Ramps and Bowker Overpass Study essentially diverts the overpass to the ramps connected to Comm Ave, and then uses Charlesgate E/W to connect to Storrow: However, they...