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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...

Can anyone name or post a picture of a building with a large footprint that you feel does a good job of breaking up its mass so that the street level is varied and interesting and not monotonous? I'm just curious, I am not familiar with any examples that have come up with a good solution to...

I recently took a trip to Savannah GA. It is a highly walkable town (at least the famous touristy part). Anyone interested in brilliant urban planning should visit. It is a living textbook. Here are some pics: Downtown main street. Terminal view of important civic structure. Active...

There is much criticism on this board of the buildings that are built in Boston. Here is a thread for awful buildings in other cities to show that other places put up buildings just as or even more despiriting than Boston. Here is a rendering I recently came across in NYC: It is right next...

Those who complain that Boston isn't sufficiently development friendly should be eating crow since we have been shown to be prescient that we did not go hog wild during the insane boom. Case in point, Williamsburg: http://nymag.com/realestate/features/57904/

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/121

It has been said that Peabody and Stearns was to Boston what McKim, Mead, and White were to New York. But I think, given the choice between the two, I'd pick Peabody and Stearns. There was something particularly Bostonian about Peabody and Stearns that MMW lacked. They were more restrained...

Boston architecture has reached an impasse. The brutal physical and psychological wounds modernism inflicted on Boston in the 50s and 60s have never healed, and while many modern architects arrogantly refuse to acknowledge the damage done, traditionalists stubbornly prevent architecture from...

Just some interesting pictures of Adams Sq and Dock Sq. I especially like the ones looking up Cornhill from Faneuil Hall.

Can someone explain to me how Brookline City Hall went from: To: Was there a fire in the old one or did they just go insane like the rest of Boston in the 60s and decide they needed something modern? It would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic.

I was thinking of starting a thread to keep track of Patrick's promises so we can check them off as he keeps or breaks them. Here's a list I've come up with: Add 1000 new police officers (broken) Cut the Property Tax (broken) Restore local aid to pre-2000 levels Give excise and sales tax...

I was looking through the upcoming projects list at The Architectural Team's website and saw some renderings for Lovejoy Wharf that looked new. Gone is the old "Clamp" design and what is there now is a lot better, imo. http://www.architecturalteam.com/whatsnew/pdf/lovejoywharf.pdf

They've demolished One Davis Sq. Does anyone know what is going to replace it?

A reflection on cities of the future by James Howard Kunstler Back in the early 20th Century, when the cheap oil fiesta was just getting underway, and some major new technological innovation made its debut every month ? cars, radio, movies, airplanes ? there was no practical limit to what men...

I'm kicking myself that I didn't keep my own copies of the texts of the AOTMs. But at least here are the pictures:

I'm kicking myself that I didn't keep my own copies of the texts of the AOTMs. But at least here are the pictures:

This month I?m going to feature someone somewhat less well known, but one that I really love?Boston granite style and Gridley Fox Bryant. If I could have my way, everything would be Boston granite style. It?s the only architectural style that has a city?s name in it and you?d think that for this...

Charles Bulfinch was the first professional architect in the United States, and undoubtedly the most influential architect in New England. Even today, more buildings being constructed in New England are Bulfinch-derived than from any other source. Bulfinch was not only chief architect of...