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    315 on A | 315 A Street | Fort Point

    The Batterymarch building does this trick where it uses darker colored bricks on the bottom, and subtly becomes lighter as it goes up. It produces the effect of making it seem taller and gives it more vertical thrust. I'd love to see someone try the same trick with these terra cotta blocks...
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    45 Province St | Downtown Crossing

    Re: 45 Province That should have been the slogan on the giant banner: 45 Province: Smell The Glove.
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    45 Province St | Downtown Crossing

    Re: 45 Province "There's something about this that's so black, it's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is: none." -Spinal Tap
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    Millennium Tower (Filene's) | 426 Washington Street | Downtown

    I guess it has been decided that Boston is red at the bottom, white in the middle, and blue up top. Kinda patriotic.
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    315 on A | 315 A Street | Fort Point

    Re: 319 A Street Rear Notice the slight color variations in the terra cotta on the tower portion which gives a pleasing variety of shades without being garish. Compare that with the godawful variations on Waterside place.
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    Avalon Exeter | 77 Exeter Street | Back Bay

    Re: Avalon Exeter (formerly New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center) I think the city has exceeded its quota for this style of window.
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    Four Seasons Tower @ CSC | 1 Dalton Street | Back Bay

    Re: Christian Science Church Center Renovation/ New Towers Not a fan of high rise apartment towers, but I guess deracinated transnational cosmopolitans need a place to live too.
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    315 on A | 315 A Street | Fort Point

    Re: 319 A Street Rear 45 Province is and so is that group of nice new row houses on Mass Ave. But it's not a wonder drug, there are ways to use it well and ways to use it poorly.
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    315 on A | 315 A Street | Fort Point

    Re: 319 A Street Rear That's how you do it. Respects the palette, windows, and materials of the surrounding buildings. Best project of 2013. Once again, a terra cotta cladding is the way to go to fit a modern building in with historic neighbors.
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    Channel Center | Fort Point

    They could have continued the nice rhythm of the streetwall, but nooooooooooo, they had to be bastards.
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    The Kensington | 665 Washington Street | Downtown

    Re: Residences at Kensington When International Place was built it caused a huge outcry. Today, you don't hear a peep. No one even seems to care about all the buildings going up that are really degrading the quality of the city.
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    Learn from fashion

    Fashion has learned how to be modern and yet escape dull repetitive minimalism. Architecture could learn a few things from this. Check out these dresses: They are meticulously detailed, use gradations of color in interesting ways, make inventive uses of materials, unmistakably modern...
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    Charlestown Infill and Small Developments

    I'm a big booster of neotraditionalism, but it has to be done right. But I'd rather have a brutalist nightmare than the cheap knockoff Federalism we get with that School St project. If you strip out the details like the 6 over 6 windows, or just make the mansard straight instead of curved, it...
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    Hong Lok House | 11-31 Essex Street | Chinatown

    Re: Hong Luk Project - Chinatown What do modern architects tell themselves to keep their self-respect when seeing their work lined up with its betters?
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    South Boston Infill and Small Developments

    Re: South Boston Development Who is this designed for? To me it looks like its for low income housing, but I get the impression it will carry yuppie prices. It does look flimsy and more suitable for Florida. So I don't think the yuppies will like it for its aesthetics and I don't think low...
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    Millennium Tower (Filene's) | 426 Washington Street | Downtown

    Re: Millennium Tower - Filene's And more public sector jobs dedicated to replacing and servicing them!
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    The Kensington | 665 Washington Street | Downtown

    Re: Residences at Kensington We're building something next to an H.H. Richardson building. Maybe we should take that into consideration. H.H. who? Compare this to 60 State st, where I think they did just about as good of a job you could if you were going to put a skyscraper right in between...
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    Waterside Place 1A | 505 Congress Street | Seaport

    Re: Waterside Place Real cheap looking materials:
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    Avalon North Station | Nashua Street Residences | West End

    Re: Nashua Street Residences (North Station) It's perfectly contextual! (When the context is the Tip O'Neil building and the Garden.)

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