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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...

That is absolutely not what I've been hearing from the vast majority of people interacting with it. I'm sure some of the tourists are super into the game and would watch it from a garbage dump, but many people had what they believed were early-reserved tickets canceled shortly before the event...

Thank goodness the recent $95 million makeover ensured that City Hall Plaza could remain a beloved central location for an events venue when the need arises

I would argue this render map is equally deceptive. The majority of the "groves" are - on a human scale - hardscape, as are the sidewalks along St James and Boylston, but are all rendered as a top-down view with translucent green circles to suggest an oasis. Same for the mulch planter on...

How much is the City paying for this recent cope blitz in the media? It obviously stinks. Yeah, it provides more hardscape for pop-up events, but when those aren't happening, it stinks. When can we just accept that without trying to go "well actually the percentage of green space (if you count...

5/20 - back half of Joslin is gone. Hope they saved those relief carvings...

Same, as I'm sure is the case for many others. The outdoor observation deck part seems very cool - but I could never justify that price to amble around and look at the city I live in. I'm sure they made a number of tangible improvements for the one-off tourist demographic - I paid the outrageous...

Does the vendor contracted for the mTicket app support dynamic pricing models? My guess is that the T/Keolis never thought about it.

Took an inbound to South Station last night. Despite a pretty full train, no on-board ticket checks were performed, which isn't unusual even before the fare gates as conductors usually assume you'll have activated a weekend pass on an outbound trip. I will say that I've noticed more on-board...