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I thought the first one was supposed to be Southie until I saw the golden dome - the high rise by the water's edge and the church steeple made me think of 1410 Columbia and Gate of Heaven respectively. Again, wonder if it's pulling from an aerial of Southie as much as Beacon Hill. The wildly...

Awesome. I've never been in there but just poking around Street View a bit it was easy to match the aesthetic. All of the Longwood hospitals sort of came-of-age in the PoMo era, but I feel like Children's leans into it the most because it aligns so much with the colorful spaces you'd expect for...

Is that 333 Longwood or something else?

This is a solid chunk of building that takes up the entire stretch from Dorchester St. up to Thomas Park. I can't imagine you're going to get enough value in knocking it down to rebuild it with a slightly different footprint. I'm personally not a fan of replacing the contrasting brick up front...

Duckling Day! We had done this with Anthony so it was nice to celebrate my wife's return to motherhood Mothers Day here again!

And a few inside the arena itself. The lower ribbon boards are new and make the seating bowl look more modern, but have the unfortunate side effect of covering up where the section numbers used to be, so people were confused. They seem to have adjusted the lighting as well since my last time in...

Went to Monster Jam at the DCU Center today, and had a bit of time to stroll around the arena between the Pit Party and the actual show. Worcester is more of a city than I think most people give it credit for, still a lot of parking lots downtown but it's getting more filled in and there are...

The second one is interesting in that it still shows the limitations of AI image generation when it comes to things like this. It may "know" that certain buildings recur in Boston images, but placing them in a geographic sense is beyond it's scope. You can even see the original images pop out in...

The above posts have me wondering - how much of the new design was driven by the Marathon itself? I hate to be cynical about it, but it sure seems like more hardscape closer to Dartmouth only benefits organizers who have to build support structures for the race.

Damn nice NSX

I wish I was out in Laguna Seca this weekend, where Porsche and Apple have gone all-out on throwbacks for their respective 75th and 50th anniversaries. An Apple sponsored 935 K3 ran IMSA and Le Mans in 1980, and they've put the livery on the Penske 963s for this weekend's race. The GT2 with the...

Daughter had an appointment in this one today so I got to experience it first hand. It's beautiful inside and is incredibly modern and clean, state of the art for healthcare. More natural light than you'd expect.

That's way better than the original renders. I wonder how long the municipal lot has.

Be careful conflating "travelling for sporting events" with general tourism. This is anecdotal, but when I'm attending races I choose hotels based on price and location to the venue, not what is the best tourist spot. Hence why, when going to Daytona, I stay in Lake Mary on the Orlando suburbs...

The Convention Center is a 10 minute walk from the train station, and has both plenty of space for bus queuing and holding people both outside and inside if necessary (with plentiful bathrooms).

To that end (Frasier even appears in this one!), a video the algorithm served me about "Global Village Coffee House", the interior and graphic design scheme that I always find PoMo adjacent - it wasn't a strict part of the movement, but a lot of PoMo spaces in the 1990s also had this aesthetic...

This is quite the time capsule, 1997, right in the height of the Big Dig. Footage of the Museum of Science exhibit! This is the Boston I remember from my childhood.

I forget about how PoMo the Garden actually is.

That's one of my favorite views of the city. When you're driving down the ramp onto the Pike westbound it looks like a movie set in front of you with the buildings so dense and at so many different angles.

Did some Google Maps sleuthing and followed my instincts, and behold, top one is Fore River, the plant is on the Quincy side: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7N8PpYZeX1Sk2Lbb7 The second one is going to be much harder to place. Looks like a transfer station of some sort, with the pipe coming out of the...