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I understand this argument but find it to be unpersuasive. It is currently a vacant department store and maybe a future sporting goods store. How many affordable apartments or condos are there in THOSE previous or future site conditions? Even if you don't happen to agree with the above...

Looking at OpenStreetMap and OpenRailwayMap, not much looks to be under it - unlike some of the Prudential Center complex, it's a comfortable distance from the Green Line tunnels on Boylston and Exeter, as well as the Pike and train tunnels a block south. This makes perfect sense, since...

Hmm, somewhat addressing my traffic concern, they seem to show the uphill part of Albany getting a road diet to 2 lanes, which may help. Their rendered sidewalk and streetlights are kind of overlayed on a traffic lane, at least. The intersection to the north of Kneeland really should have a...

The Parcel 25 thread devolved into chaos and was locked so I'll post this here - I noticed Google Maps has a marker on this site called "Moody Nolan Tower" With a URL to this portfolio: http://moodynolan.com/portfolio/106148/ In addition to the front and back photos posted above, they have a...

Hot tip: this is going to be quite a sight to see rise from the Independence Wharf observation deck:

He also was very likely assassinated by the US government itself.

I've seen it in person. It's a tad too large for what it is (something of equal mass but with torsos and heads would seem more proportional) and the disembodied arms look David Cronenberg-esque. The color of the statue, a dull matte brown instead of the reflective bronze of the renders, is muddy...

Damn, so in a week we get stuck with a crappy (pun intended) statue forever AND nobody will think or talk about it?

It's pretty dire when The Babylon Bee, a satire page similar to The Onion but with a conservative Christian bent, gets some good shots in:

Of course they realized the statue looked simultaneously like Coretta Scott King's hands displaying a phallus or a turd, or a person performing fellatio (depending on the angle). They clearly went ahead with this design on purpose, because good public art gets people talking about it and freely...

A very valid position echoed by one of the top comments on the major subreddit r/pics, where the picture of the statue recently received "not safe for work" censoring:

I think you're right about this part - a lot of people in the replies to this tweet believe it looks like someone performing oral sex. Facebook and Twitter (and people I've spoken to in real life) are of similar opinions... one person who saw it for the first time with me thought it was...

If you figure out how to submit feedback, Google also still draws the Orange line to run underneath the Devonshire St. entrance to State St. Station, rather than following Washington to the Court/State intersection and then between the buildings on City Hall Plaza. And there is a similar...

Substantial demo work on the surface parking lot today

Isn't this the same city where the intrinsic value of parkland for the public good has been so long-understood that it's legally codified that new developments in our densest downtown areas can't negatively impact even the light cast from the sun onto our central park? I personally think that...

Well you have to remember, the Seaport is one of Boston's oldest neighborhoods that rose about organically over hundreds of years. It's not the kind of place where a master planner had blank slate to worth with, and could have designed the most optimal layout for civic uses and public transport...

FWIW, Twitter user The Fort Pointer has been keeping track of various Seaport developments and debacles and got the developer to re-release this render with the massing of the approved building just to the East of Parcel G, for a more realistic portrayal of the future site.

As people have posted in this thread, good art engages people and gets them talking. The fact that everyone on Reddit is split between whether it looks more like a penis or a turd means this sculpture is a resounding success.

Hmm, Reddit has discovered that at certain angles it looks uncannily like hands holding aloft a large penis.