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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/08/24/metro/time-serious-discussion-about-superman-building-downtown-providence/?outputType=amp&p1=SectionFront_Feed_AuthorQuery&__twitter_impression=true The Superman building’s owner is making another attempt to redevelop the property. Article says that the...

Exciting announcement for breakfast sandwich lovers. https://boston.eater.com/2021/8/17/22629384/mike-pattys-sandwich-shop-expansion-jamaica-plain

NYC added an entire Boston of population since 2010! Brooklyn is within 10k of Chicago!

It's surely not as visually interesting as most of his designs, but it subtly reminds me of Louis Kahn? Hope I'm not inciting anything with that comparison 😁

@xec never said that travel is bad. Global tourism is not new, but in many places, it has exploded with the cheaper and cheaper airfares (see Japan's tourism growth in the past decade in table 1.2). Some places are capable of absorbing huge numbers of tourists. I live in NYC, the most...

Great way to diminish pedestrian activity here.

Wow yea, @DZH22, you might've accomplished locating Boston's single least flattering angle (great photos regardless!). If you showed me that first one out of context, I'd guess former Soviet bloc or central Asia at first glance.

I think even those espousing the virtues of the existing structure (myself included), would not characterize its design as "timeless". But it's exactly because it does look dated, because it's so "of an era", that some of us are drawn to it. Whether someone likes this particular Googie aesthetic...

Great photos @Smuttynose! Curious what makes you Haverhill is, "the least Gateway-ie of the Gateway Cities"?

We have three of them on the Williamsburg waterfront!

Really going with a Toronto-style facadectomy with this one.

Lol, and of course this author was with the Sierra Club for two decades. Nothing says environmental stewardship like pushing all growth to the exurbs.

Our stacked book buildings and our slanted roof buildings had a baby.

Screengrab from the excellent video @Riverside shared, showing a 60s era rendering of I-695 crossing the Charles. Present-day Google Streetview added for comparison.

I think I like it, but not there.

Does anyone know if the sole balcony on the south-facing corner (as opposed to the many balconies on the east-facing corner) belongs to a unit or is that building amenity?

:cry: I've always had a big soft spot for the existing building here, as one of Boston's only examples of Googie architecture. My fantasy was that it could one day be converted to a great 50's-themed outdoor beer garden/burger spot, something a la the Verb Hotel. I suppose 99 units of housing...

I think the argument is regardless of the FAR guiding Hood's redevelopment, increased upzoning and activity in the area is going to invariably increase the value of their property

Shouting this Globe comment from the rooftops.

Just to give credit where credit is due, @kz1000ps captured one of my favorite construction shots in awhile and it's at the top of this page ;). But agree @mdd, it is a really interesting vantage point. I especially like it because, at least for me, it's totally messes with my mental map of...