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You’re refuting something I didn’t say! Not saying I disagree with it being built, but I am saying that it doesn’t fit in gracefully and that I feel for anyone who lives on that street. I could pick any residential street around Coolidge Corner and say the same thing, despite the fact that...

This one is a real beauty. Wow.

I mean, I know this street well. I completely understand why anyone living on it would not want this huge hulking building smushed into their hood. I also think the only way out of preventing us from becoming a complete failure due to impossible cost of living is aggressive change on this scale...

I looked this up on the map and I never realized what an enormous amount of land the Catholic Church has between Brighton and North Beacon. Wow, that’s going to be a huge redevelopment when they eventually give it up

Yes, but their visual impact is far less significant.

Great photography, but this does make me sad that the architecture of this building doesn’t dialogue with the Christian Science complex at all. Didn’t realize that til now.

honestly that isn't a bad idea. in a public recognition of how dire the housing crisis is, simply develop 2-3 tempted designs for high density buildings that fit onto normal lots, and literally go in and build all over

Yes, I don’t spend a ton of time there, but I haven’t seen violations. As I’ve said here before, Brookline traffic cops’ reputation is so bad that people tend to not violate line crossings in Brookline. Speeding yes, but illegal rights on red, turns with a no turn sign, etc tend to be obeyed. I...

My experience of that intersection is that it's a very simple matter of utterly horrendous signal timing that makes crossing HPA impossible. HPA itself is surely one of the worst roads in Boston, yet I myself have never seen serious traffic on it at any light, other than perhaps backups at West...

Yes, I agree, particularly in this case. I don’t feel that way about all churches, though. This one is unique, and provides a good presence, not to mention being a visible landmark from all around.

There’s a great passage in All the Pretty Horses where a hacienda owner is talking about desacralizing a chapel on his property and the philosophical questions surrounding how and whether this can be done. I think we take for granted these adaptive reuses of churches but I imagine many people...

My favorite part of this project is how they just rebuilt the spiked metal fence with the spikes at the perfect height to impair bikers already at risk of falling due to a fence right against the bike path making this leg more dangerous that getting doored. Great thinking.

I think it’s pretty atrocious that Harvard University couldn’t have found a way to have a bypass of that closed gate, as well as the absurd amount of time the Bussey/South one was closed. Gimme a break.

Just came here to say this building still sucks

Only took 20 years.

I really dont know what I am talking about here, but I find it hard to believe that a retaining wall from the "S" of South Street on the right side of the map, to about the where arrow for the "electric lines to be buried" touches down, could really be as much as a boardwalk across the entire...

I was confused because the different images had made me think that there might be two separate legs that had two separate boardwalks, with one being really tall and the other not as much. What I really want to know is, why can’t they just build a cycle track right along South Street? The wetland...

Love that view down into those little streets. It's an awesome little micro-neighborhood, wedged next to the pike.

So Im actually confused here—looking at the site, on the main page they have an image of a very high walkway that also appears to be straight, but then they show Phase 2 as being a low, sinuous boardwalk connecting to the South St arch. Im not sure what the first image is supposed to be...

I don’t know about this one way or another (I had not heard this but I haven’t followed closely), but what I do know is that the segment of the path that is supposed to get you from the arbo entrance at Bussey/South to the gateway arch will have to be an elevated catwalk essentially over the...