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Here's a fantastic document from 2000 covering pretty much everything about the Pike parcels from the City of Boston perspective. On page 3, they identify that parcels 2 & 3 are located in Brookline and subject to their zoning. Also - the renders are beautiful. Can you imagine?

A building's crown is often the most visible and distinctive element, and can make or break a building's design. For me, I tend to mostly notice them when they bother me, so I wanted to pose a question - what do you all think are Boston's best and worst crowns...

Thanks so much! I guess it's a kind of survivorship bias that I forgot about these extremely well-hidden/aligned ones, while even the smaller Dewey Square Tunnel vents stick out like sore thumbs.

While there's an active thread about vent building design, can I ask a related question that I assume has the mundane answer "it was moderately cheaper to do it this way": Why was virtually no effort made, with the exception of CAT Vent Tower 6, to integrate the design of these stacks into the...

85 affordable units isn't nothing, especially if you're basically building them on an empty lot. But the potential at this site is what's killing me. The radian has 240 units (and 70 parking spaces), meaning you could plop one of those there and add an additional 155 units. Even if the...

Ha, I think I edited my post to include a postscript about this while you were writing this reply. There is also the One Greenway garage that sits under the superbuilding consisting of 99 Kneeland (market rate rentals) and 66 Hudson (affordable rentals). As odurandina said above in 2019, the...

The building permit has been granted for this as of 12/1/22. It looks like in the original documents and renders that this will be a standard 5-over-1 on a slab foundation with the 1st floor (facing Hudson Street) being parking, with the entrance at a comparable location to the existing lot...

The cluster of disembodied copper arms emerging from the ground kind of reminds me of this

Forgive me if I'm missing it, but it looks like even with the much more preferential light conditions of the higher viaduct, as well as more pleasant adjacent conditions lacking major roads (like Charlesgate E/W, Comm Ave, Beacon, Storrow onramps), the entire area under the viaduct is dedicated...

If anything, they're likely to expand it like in the last bid. Despite that garage and the one across the Pike at Herald St., Tufts feels under extreme parking pressure for staff and patients. For instance, they are the primary user of the current surface parking lot on nearby Parcel R-1...

Hell if they could pull off Columbus Center I'd be okay with naming rights. "Samuels City"

I thought the discussion happened in this thread but it was actually the WOOP/Kenmore thread - something like this has actually been studied officially and unofficially and I think could be very viable:

While these are all big improvements, I think this image with the "ghost Bowker" is somewhat misleading and implies a total removal of the viaduct between Newbury St. and Storrow - which, if you scroll up and back in this thread, is absolutely realistic by diverting to Charlesgate East and West...

I agree with everything Lrfox said, with the addition that distance from the Van Wickle gates means very little from a practical perspective. The stadium is less than 3000 feet from all the main athletic fields and is easily walkable for many students by being centrally located in the...

If viaduct width is a concern, you could take even more inspiration from Fallout, and existing commuter trains could be modified to be dual conventional and overhead monorail like the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, and switch modes during the transfer (precedent exists at Silver Line Way with the...

This is a ridiculous suggestion. The grade change would either be too steep or require unreasonably long ramps on either end as you outline. The obvious solution is something similar to the Falkirk Wheel, where trains pull into South Station, are lifted on rails to the elevated viaduct above the...

Sadly, the Hancock observation deck was brought to the attention of then-Mayor Walsh in a 2014 Reddit AMA and nothing ever came of it. A social media connection recently posted some selfies from some kind of site visit to the outdoor roof deck component (obscured to protect privacy).

Are you talking about Brown lot #81? (from the master Parking Map document): Other compelling candidates (IMO) would be combining the lots of 108 and 105N between the Laboratories for Molecular Medicine building (70 Ship) and the Medical School (222 Richmond), or the combination of 200 Dyer...

I believe the door to the right of the image you posted is leading to either the stairs or elevator to the expanded bus platform above (purple "islands" near the center of this image):

RIPTA is planning to update the East Side Transit Tunnel and are doing some surveys based on their ideas. It looks like a couple of the designs for the west portal incorporate a bidirectional bus corridor on Washington Place heading towards Kennedy Plaza Site...