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Stayed at Raffles last weekend and after my second drink I got talking to staff about a shiny new neighbor. "Don't get used to looking at that garage," a bartender said. "It's gonna be a big stack of glass boxes soon!" The concierge later eagerly confirmed this, seemed very excited, which I...

You're too kind. This is awful, abysmal, atrocious, an all-out assault on aesthetics. The worst part: it was garbage as rendered and burning garbage in reality. Could we really give those in need of affordable housing a bigger middle finger? Will the units be advertised along nostalgic lines...

It's halfway to a lovely little park already, just rip out that parking lot, build an over-the-top jungle gym and voila.

It's definitely a slick residential-style hotel, nice use of real stone and wood, but as they go, One Dalton or the Mandarin can breathe easy.

From the sounds of it, you could poke one of these buildings with a pillow and knock it over.

This isn't like a surgeon weighing whether to operate, it's an opinion on aesthetics; not correct or incorrect, just a reflection of taste. My opinion is that this building was an ugly render that became an ugly build, and this belief doesn't impede or invalidate your enjoyment of it.

Agreed. The site plan hews pretty close to that of the existing Forbes Building, so perhaps there are restrictions on footprint expansion.

Your good intentions aside, that sort of talk will doom any real hopes of affordability. No starchitects, please, just solid design and construction paired with equitable and transparent eligibility guidelines.

This development needs a few of those mega-scrubbers they plop atop labscrapers, only reversed for intake, as aside from pitching a tent next to the mouth of the tunnel in Chinatown, I can't picture a local place to live with worse air quality.

As even the cheap senior living developments can cost a resident $700/wk, I shudder to think of the fortunes that'll be spent to live in a RAMSA-designed Shady Pines... That said, it's one hell of a swanky Shady Pines.

I've been to visit friends at Echelon and yeah, the commercial courtyards are quiet. I think it's a combo of a) these areas are tucked away from the action, and b) many visitors to Echelon think these are private areas, and the residents don't work to discourage this notion. Something akin to a...

The interiors reflect the exterior - a jarring mishmash of styles that ultimately looks dated and incongruous. That's your library, $63k/yr milking cows, slip into your bell bottoms and platform heels and go enjoy it!

Lots of people don't want to be in the thick of things - 5 yrs living in a thriving corner of JP was one of the loudest, smelliest, ultimately most frustrating experiences for me - so it's nice that this option exists for those who want to be out there but not out there where they tip the cows.

I like the materials (or what I assume they'll be from the renders) and the massing. Surprised this got the green light; the aerial shot shows a neighborhood type normally quite adverse to dense resi projects.

I'm a big fan of that Four Seasons and this Raffles stay is really to compare. At FS the Back Bay Suite is crazy luxe but the Executive Suite has the better layout if more than one guest is staying. Enjoy!

Booked a weekend in October, I'll grab interior pics and post them. I've been waiting for this to wrap up for so long, can't wait.

Their largest plant is in Agawam, but locally it would likely be in Lynnfield.

Maybe it's the heathen in me, but I think it'd be rad to live in a deconsecrated church. My grandparents are rolling in their graves, but yeah, I'd do it.

Easy, there are already too many people here.

I prefer BC's aesthetic to that of Yale, it's more reflective of America's penchant for mixing styles. Yale looks like Hampton Court as built by tacky new money, and while I love RAMS, their recent additions only add to the flip flops and caviar vibe.