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These giant lumpy boxes that have become so common in the last decade are virtually-interchangeable. They're soulless and unappealing, and their relentless proliferation is making our whole built environment soulless and unappealing. Looking at these buildings, it's as if they're trying to take...

Are we currently living in the Precariously Stacked Boxes Period of architecture?

Super interesting. I really appreciate it, sm89. Thanks. 16 units, 50 bedrooms, 42 baths. Wild.

Fascinating project. I don't think I've ever seen a renovation like this before. Can you point to any more info on this one?

I think it's pretty understandable. Since WWII, architecture in America has become increasingly ugly and bereft of any art or humanity. Likewise for our urban planning. It's only natural that people are now instinctually weary of development, especially large-scale development.

The MBTA Communities Act may be law, but its legality is yet to be tested. Granted I'm just a layman, but the selectiveness of the "MBTA Community" designation, as well as the arbitrariness of the requirement formulation lead me to believe that this statute won't survive a court challenge. This...

Lol. Is there a Godwin's Law for racism? I'm on Milton's side here. A town resisting state-level preemption and wanting to retain local control over the zoning within its boundaries is a perfectly valid and understandable position to hold. The hysterical invective being directed at Milton is...

I disagree. The uniform color only emphasizes this landscraper's landscraperness. I find it totally gross. The former scheme was almost certainly a half-assed riff on Renzo Piano's Central St. Giles in London. I didn't love it, but I thought it was about a thousand times better than this...

These buildings have all the humanity of a electrical box. It's incredible how ugly most hospital architecture has become. It's as if these institutions have made it part of their corporate mission to deface the public realm. I can't decide whether it's incompetence or sabotage.

The new ART building looks like a poultry processing facility. Harvard is clearly unconcerned with providing any kind of positive aesthetic experience to anyone who has to look at this crap on a regular basis.

This building looks like it was designed by Homer Simpson.

This is soul-smothering, office park suburbanism. What a waste.

This building is way too wide. Grotesquely wide. And that curtain wall looks like something out of the 70s. The raised, metallic mullions contrast starkly with the blue glass, making the skin look busy and negating any sensual effect the building's smoothly curving facade might have had...

My thoughts exactly. This kind of dramatic deviation from the established urban fabric is a hallmark of public housing projects. It seems like the whole point of it is to visually announce to everyone that this is subsidized housing for poor people and it is separate and distinct from the...

WOW! What an outrageous act of vandalism that addition to the Green Building is.

What neighborhood are you talking about? Chinatown? The South End? Bay Village? I wouldn't say these parcels are in any of them, but isolated on the periphery of all 3, in no man's land. How about bringing some vitality and desperately needed housing to the place before mindlessly plopping down...

I'm on the side of more housing. Boston doesnt need any more superfluous, haphazardly placed parks--especially astronomically expensive ones like these would be. What a terrible idea.

Stefal, I was not criticizing the size of the buildings' floor plates (which are another issue), but the scale at which their facades are arranged. I'm talking about the seemingly reflexive tendency for architects to lamely try to disguise a building as one half (or a third, or a quarter -- or...

Yes! I totally agree. The city is more than starting to be "thrown off" by these types of cartoonishly over-scaled, oafish buildings. It's been thoroughly disfigured at this point. These buildings are everywhere you turn in Boston. They look like they have been transported from an alternately...

Rubbish.