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It's hardly a fortress, gramps, take a deep breath, it's clearly mimicking the building on the other side of 7/11 and was aiming to be contextual more than another place to put a seldom-trafficked bank. Additionally...aren't you whining about Eastie all the way from the burbs?

A great deal of those towers have proven to be very expensive (to rent/own) and also very shoddy, to put it mildly. I'm for density, sure, but let's not seek to emulate such blatant greed-before-quality construction.

I hope this isn't a CQ property. CQ has four hotels going into foreclosure - including the CQ downtown - after they stopped making loan payments back in...yikes...2020. If the city has learnt anything, it's to avoid companies likely to leave holes in the ground and evaporate into bankruptcy/merger.

Why don't we all agree both towers are unremarkable in massing and style, promised far more by way of building amenities/local improvements than was produced, and Boston will likely tap MP for another one due to our fine city's deep, deep-seated love of design that doesn't spook the horses?

New cladding aside, this building looks better shorter. The proportions make more sense to my eye.

I'll see your 'warped sense of reality' and raise you a 'new reality'. Companies interested in full-time office experiences have begun to move south, and many more will do so once those long commercial leases are up. Those companies staying in the north have expressed very little interest in...

Respectfully, what year are you living in? Do you think a slide into a ball pit, or micro brews in a mini-fridge, will put the genie back into the bottle? I worked surrounded by that junk for years and as soon as I didn't have to show up anymore I, and everyone but the very junior and very...

I really like this. Contextual while maintaining a distinct profile, with detailing that breaks up what might otherwise be a sea of brick, this blends into the neighborhood while quietly presiding over a prominent corner. More of this, please.

The winning bid could come from one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eaters, I still can't see anything near as grand what's shown actually going in. Now a collection of bland 3-over-2 boxes with a few hundred $2k/month apartments...

The answer is very carefully, and rarely. If One Dalton's windows look like garbage most of the time, and they have an easy set up for washing windows, I see these silly vanity projects with their needless fenestration (Harvard's science landscraper sings the same tune) as beyond hope of regular...

Me thinks you all complain too much. Seriously, can the prattle about what makes a neighborhood be moved off the main thread?

I know Portland's in no danger of overdoing this trend, but speaking as someone in Boston, curtain walls get old and actually can look more dated than traditional windows. If you stop and think about it, for every one tower with truly designed curtain walls (State Street HQ comes to mind), there...

I got issues, but my real beef is the 'main heart'. This parklet is on the edge of the development and crisscrossed by ped paths, so it's neither central (like a heart) nor conducive to actual 'arterial' function for the neighborhood. As for the new design, it's a crowded pastiche of 'mod'...

Do labs in core areas get shade because the space could be better utilized, or because the lab boom will peter out and we'll be left with several prominent unfinished jobs?

Nice picture, but is that seriously a protest supporting the reinstatement of the Pahlavi royal family in Iran, who themselves were puppets of a containment-obsessed Cold War America? I suppose if you're going to advocate for something you misunderstand, do it in your youth.

Good! Pro or con the Shreve demo, I don't believe anyone would wish this lot to sit vacant out of spite.

Do you mean one-pedal drive, a quasi-manual drive feature, because that considerably reduces brake use. Regen braking relies on the driver to practice well-timed and proper deceleration, it doesn't change how the car reacts. I drive an electric car and I go through brakes faster than in past ICE...

Handsome, proportional, contextual, could be a beautiful addition. After seeing so many fancy/sleek renders seriously fail to live up, I hope this old school one undersells it.

Ok, but what if Boston rolled the dice, got some real infrastructure improvements funded and in the pipeline, and then was selected? The Olympics create far more problems for the host city than they directly or indirectly solve, and the IOC's contract terms ensures this will continue, so I don't...

I like the lines of the building more than the material finishes as presented. That orange-y brick could easily look as dated as orange shag, and faux balcony rails on even the fanciest builds often appear cheap and tacked on. Here's to hopin'!