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When we used to do these awards I would keep a running list all year of pictures I thought deserved this distinction. Sorting back through every picture from 2019 just feels too daunting right now. There was one image of them tearing down the garage for Winthrop Center that still sticks in my...

real simple. The Embrace. the gaudy Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King memorial for the common. While I am all for the concept of a memorial and even the placement of it on the common, the winning design, chosen in 2019, is simply an eye sore that will only be used for selfie backdrops.

Bringing back some perennials from the past version of these awards: 1) THE WINTHROP BUILDING!!!!!! - best building in Boston hands down and always looked over. the elegant curve, the beautiful color combination, the way it perfectly fits its site contextually. 2) Harvard Square Station - one...

I'll nominate parcels 14/15 pike air rights. Not only is the gaping hole in the ground a blight, so is the rear of the parking garage that is visible and the disaster that is the lack of cross walks and bad state of the sidewalks surrounding it.

I second Quaker Lane and Emerson College Little Building Addition and Renovation

just want to make sure a "none of the above" or "no award" will be included as an option because I also can not think of any infrastructure deserving this.

my two perennial nominees from way back when: Mass Eye and Ear - for its dead streetscape and appearance of eating a much more sucessfull building Harbor Towers - For not just the fenced off pool creating a barrier to the harbor walk but largely for the obstruction it's residence perform.

id assume these are the most up to date renderings as they are the ones from the website. https://www.polarpark.com/worcester-red-sox-master-plan

That's Turtleboy to you!

Ooooo. Citizen M is great. Their lobbies are always open and are great places to work or take meetings when you freelance.

So this new design is going to make traffic on the mass pike worse. with the previous design the mass of the structure tiered down and back into the tunnel making it appear more like funnel that you are entering. The supports held the park up which tiered back to the retail windows. This new...

I audibly gasped when I saw these pictures! Those are pretty famous statues by Nicole Eisenman, a prominent contemporary artist who currently has pieces in the Whitney Biennial. I saw some amazing sculptures by her at the 2013 Carnegie International ( http://ci13.cmoa.org/artists/nicole-eisenman...

wow. those vertical fins on the silver panels add way more texture and interest then I expected.

While ADA is an amazing thing, it can be incredibly hard to fit ramps in sometimes. I am designing a site specific play in NYC right now and the room has a lading with 4 steps down to the main area of the space. To comply with ADA to get handicapped people to the lower portion of the room the...

A truck carrying some of the panels for this one tipped over and crushed a car not to long ago. dont mind the "movie prop" in the post, they just dont know what they are talking about https://www.instagram.com/p/BvhRBy6joln/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

oh my gahd. I snorted when I read that. But to add to the chorus, the Ramrod and Machine are not what they used to be. It always sucks to loose queer spaces, but all the real leather and rubber men in Boston go to parties like Fascination at Jacques Downstairs, or ship out to the Providence...

The one concrete thing that did come out of this process was dividing the air rights into parcels. Those numbers are still used today and are what I was interested in.

Insomnia last night had me realizing I have never seen a full map of all of the air rights parcels drawn out. After a bit of sleuthing I found this 2000 document from when they drewout all of the parecls and numbered them. the first full map denoting each parcel is on pg 14 followed by...

i know it is going away, but i am kind of obsessed with the green insulation peeking trough the "cornice" area of this facade. unexpected and beautiful.

I wrote his wikipedia page onceuponatime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnside_Fountain