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    Berklee Expansion Plans | Back Bay

    Will they raze the nice little beaux-arts bank?
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    Silver Line - Phase III / BRT in Boston

    A sad tale of waste and stupidity.
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    Fort Point Infill and Small Developments

    Think you mean mid-to low tide. Amsterdam's canals have low-slung boats that require not much clearance.
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Is this what you call a mishmash? ^
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    The Affordable Housing Thread

    ^ Isn't that Waterside, rather than Stuytown/Peter Cooper? A bit less Commie-Blockish from the outside.
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    GrandMarc Residence Hall (YMCA) @ Northeastern U | 291 St. Botolph Street | Fenway

    Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph) I knew that, for goodness' sake. I was replying to porter's question, which seemed to be asking what was the value of the Huntington side.
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    GrandMarc Residence Hall (YMCA) @ Northeastern U | 291 St. Botolph Street | Fenway

    Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph) It's the way it fits in the townscape that matters, the way it deals with that bend in Huntington. Suggests that it could become a grand boulevard. You can't trust any modern architect to put up a wall of comparable unfussiness...
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    Atlantic Wharf (née Russia Wharf) | Atlantic Ave | Waterfront

    Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) They sure ruined the folk-art charm of the Hood Building with that corporatized sign and conventionalized siding. No longer really an objet trouve. Just another building with a slightly weird shape. Don't we have enough of those already?
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    little wonder. Pedestrians this zone must carry fuel canisters.
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    The charms of everyday life in the suburbs... I once stayed in a motel in Atlanta that was directly beside a convenience store, isolated by a fence. To access it on foot, I had to slip-slide down a grassy bank, plod through a ditch beside an access road, and enter the convenience store parking...
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    Brigham Circle

    That Harvard School of Public Health sure is a street-killer. Ditto, the Citizens Bank. I know, I know: it beats whatever devastation was there before...
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    Worst Empty Parcel

    Aye, matey. :)
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    The New Retail Thread

    Spread the crime more evenly?
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Kid stuff and bark chips. Every city has them. Boston could be different.
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    ... as it was in the early Sixties. You should have seen it when the Russian or French fleets were in.
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    ?The question now is, how do we make sure there are enough activities on or around the Greenway to bring more people down there??? --Kairos Shen A: strip joints, pool parlors, sailors dives, a small cannabis district, cafes, commercial gyms --all tucked away on small lots behind walls, and...
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    BMC Ambulatory Building | East Concord & Albany Streets | South End

    Re: BMC Ambulatory Building Yes.
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    Downtown Crossing/Financial District | Discussion

    Hancock Building is 35 years old. Will there ever be a new "Boston's tallest"?
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    The Alcott (née Garden Garage Towers) | 35 Lomasney Way | West End

    Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building) Greetings, statler. Sometimes they "create" vitality by transferring it laterally from say, 42nd Street to Bryant Park or 14th Street to Union Square; or most especially vertically to the High Line from the streets beneath: bustle and respite...
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    Then and Now

    Can you slow down the slide show a bit?

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