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Good turnout today?

In all seriousness, that's, what, 5 people in that random "strangely, nobody is using the grass today" captioned photo - how does that compare to post-redesign? That is indeed what my old man memory recalls as unusual, minimum utilization of the grass for lounging on a nice day. Well, there's...

Want me to swing by today and take a photo and we can see if the plaza is a success?

The "build extensive levies/sea walls around the entire perimeter of the city" plan would also require this sort of reinforcement, but on a much larger scale, everywhere, with more points of failure, right?

Isn't the primary concern about Boston flooding related to intense floodwater hitting right at the oldest, most developed parts of the city where there's lots of underground or at-grade legacy infrastructure right up against the water/flood zones and the highest density of residential housing as...

And yet, not as much seating as back in the '70s! I wonder why the Ancestors ever decided to remove this hardscape plaza with ample seating...

I agree with your assessment. Part of the problem with "hostile architecture" (the high-level concept, not just spikes on a wall) is that it makes it worse for everyone in order to dissuade the homeless from using it. If Trinity Church can't open a public bathroom for a farmer's market because...

I mean, look, clearly I think the City's choice of design here was horrible and I would have done it totally differently. They certainly can't add a bathroom anywhere there now. I'm just spitballing ideas here to polish this turd, since having to cross an active Dartmouth to find a BPL bathroom...

Is it? I hadn't seen any renders or statements from the City that the hardscape was designed for frequent food truck usage. From my more cynical view, they based the design entirely around optimizing for infrequent events like the Marathon or NYE, with focus entirely around lowering daily...

StreetsblogMA post about public bathrooms from a few years ago, but still relevant. Any chance Trinity could make space available? Potties In Lieu Of Taxes... Re: food trucks, there are some places in major cities like Independence Ave in DC south of the Air and Space Museum that are loaded...

I mean, folks, you can't say "well it's empty at noon because it's so exposed in the sun" and then "it's empty at 6:30pm on a Monday because it's hot and in the summer." It's not gonna get more sunbathers in December!

I'll give you that - there's no longer any grass to ruin. If that's an improvement or not depends on your perspective.

I agree with you that those relatively limited pop-up structures and foot traffic aren't a good fit for, specifically, the old lawn. But was that ever the case? The Farmer's Market was on the old brick. The combined hardscape of the old Trinity square, the Boylston sidewalk from Trinity past the...

Yes. The previous iteration of the plaza had a large, primary section of lawn with the paths bordered on 2 sides by rows of trees and on one by flower planters. The new version has a smaller patch right in front of Trinity and nothing else (ignore in the render where they deceptively color mulch...

And before the word processor, people called penny dreadfuls "brainrot" too. We're on an architecture forum; I hope this luddite derail is applied to CAD going forward too. Get out those drafting boards and slide rules, gents!

You seem pretty down on AI, but I think it has some great potential. For example, I copied and pasted this whole discussion thread into Gemini without much commentary and asked it, "what isn't this guy getting about what I'm saying?" Here's the "slop" it spat out. Frankly, I couldn't have said...

Atlantic Wharf is also interesting. It has a little bit of everything, from the Greenway to the park at the Channel. Metropolitan is basically doing the same thing as an all-new build while this preserves and incorporates historic buildings with the same effect. This doubles as a Manhattan-style...

Very cool! Let me know if you find any other neat ways to use a computer! I hear you can play videos on them now too. Hey, what's that last bullet point on your first screenshot say?

The Fan Fest that was pitched: The Fan Fest we got:

Sorry, as a personal policy I don't read "web sites." Please snail mail me a newspaper clipping to back up your comment. It's 2026, buddy. If you Google a topic, you get a Gemini summary of Boston.com and WCVB news articles, and Reddit and Facebook threads of human beings discussing it. Since...