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I think part of it is that Just A Start is (likely) not going to use high end materials. That will make a difference. I like the spandrel panels, but the horizontals ruin the flow. A better approach would be something like the Gryzmish building at Northeastern on the corner of Forsyth and...

That one lost something in the translation from render to reality. The first floor looks like a series of small storefronts.

The intersection at Alewife Brook Parkway being offset from CPD makes it extra special bad.

Something about the floor plates expressed every other floor on scheme 1 bothers me. I can’t quite figure out why. Pushed to choose, I would probably prefer the expressed bays with the colors from scheme 1.

Those are both good examples. Atlantic Wharf, in particular, manages melding old and new deftly. A counter example: The Kensington. It doesn’t consume the whole block, but falls flat both fitting in and standing apart.

Design regulations that mandate facade articulation lead to the “warts on a box” look. It needs to be something like a pencil tower over a small fraction of a block.

Don’t you mean Cop Slide Festival Plaza?

One issue I have with the redevelopment is that it reduces the granularity of the blocks. Something is lost when you have a new building taking up all of a block. I would like to see limits on the percentage of a block that can be consolidated into a single building.

Oh yeah, my nostalgia is for the restaurant. The building nothing special.

Alas, there goes the former Marliave.

Oof, that hairpin after Tufts makes my ears ring.

School’s out for summer, so the city is starting a two year project to rebuild the school yard at the Kennedy school.

Looks like it is about halfway up the second layer of the stack, based on the renders on page 1. In the background they are excavating the old canal again. Based on the lining, I think it’s yet more remediation.

I appreciate the inclusion of a packie in the render, instead of a bougie cafe.

The PNF doesn’t call out modular in either the construction management section or the waste reduction. I think this is going to be stick built.

After a long dormancy, this one is stirring. They have reset the fences and there is a construction trailer.

I don’t like the rounded corners. I think it feels dated to me.

24 Webster.

I finally caught one of the upgraded Type 8s. They set the electronics cabinet in place of one of the windowless seats next to the level boarding doors.

Some of the options involve new AC and/or HVDC lines between Maine and Boston