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Re: Harvard Law School - Northwest Corner complex I'm a Harvard Law School employee and took an interior tour of the building today (Monday, March 21). I think the inside will ultimately be more impressive than the exterior. Being a law school, there was a list of rules prior to the tour...

Mass General Hospital along Charles Street (adjacent to Storrow Drive) and near the corner of Blossom Street?

"The 84,000-square-foot? high-rise planned for 817 Albany Street..." This is what's considered a high-rise in the city? Boston's in trouble.

Close, Ron. It's actually standing in front of Strada234...at the intersection of Causeway and Medford Street. Essentially the other side of the North End by the Bulfinch Triangle. Edit: Ledjes got it right! Here's another: Note, despite the references, this is NOT at the the Granary Burying...

ICA stairwell is correct. The other shot is NOT Fort Point Channel, though

OOH, that worked. Here's another one inside a prominent building.

I've never posted a pic before, so hopefully this works:

Re: 28-story tower planned for Downtown Crossing I don't know how to post photos...but here's an example from my trip to Kyoto, showing a street that was turned pedestrian and had a roof added to enclose it. http://picasaweb.google.com/snarl71/KyotoAndOsakaJapan#5216274224708431410 This...

This just shows what a bullshit response it was when Hancock's owners closed the observation deck for security reasons after 9/11. If their fear is terrorism, a bomb on the top floor of the building would blow out the roof and damage a few of the top floors (and possibly the counter-weight...

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower Regarding condo fees: I've lived in hi-rises before. One building was 100% market rate. Units on the higher floors did pay more for condo fees per square foot for an identical unit (since most hi-rises have identical floor plates on almost every...

Re: Silver Line Phase III While Boston is having so much trouble figuring out how to achieve a continuous route from the western part of the city to the eastern part of the city (Silver Line, Phase 3) I just read this article about London adding a second line to it's transit system to also...

Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Yep, Stellarfun, that is exactly the runway I was talking about. Based on the scale listed in the Globe graphic (which conceivably could be inaccurate), and utilizing my ultra high-tech FAA skills of holding a ruler against my computer screen...

Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Did anybody see the graphic that went along with this article in the Boston Globe? It shows a map of Boston (with Logan) and pinpoints exactly where Boston's tallest buildings are located campared to the runways. This building is nowhere near...

There's actually a website you can visit to figure out how many transit systems you've ever used: http://metro.b3co.com/ My transit riding history puts me on 20 of them.

Westy - I'm in no way defending the residents of Strada234, but as a former condo owner there, I did want to mention that when the building became luxury condos, the developer's broker (Otis and Ahearn) was assuring buyers that the Lovejoy Wharf buildings could NOT be expanded upon (in height)...

I went to the MBTA website directly to comment on the T-Radio debate. They have (or at least had) a link where you could share your opinions/suggestions about it. Apparently, T-radio hasn't been very popular as they've decided to silence the airwaves a month earlier than planned. This was the...

I've noticed a lot of these air-rights projects are going to have apartments and/or condos (Columbus Center, Avenir, One Kenmore)....how does that work? I mean, how can you own a condo on what is essentially rented land? Does that mean 99 years down the line the condo owners will face an...

The "strip mall dorms behind Pound Hall" he's talking about, I think, are part of the Gropius Complex. It's a low-slung collection of beige brick dorm buildings connected by covered walkways. The Law School (where I work) would LOVE to tear those ugly and not-very-functional buildings down but...

Actually, that "strip motel (now dorm) on stilts" up the street on Mass Ave is where the two victorian houses are being moved. Unfortunately, the dorm is staying...but the two houses should at least block the view when they replace part of the parking lot in front of the building. I heard they...

Somewhat close to the Oxford Street building, the Law School (where I work) is preparing to construct a building on Mass Ave between Jarvis and Everett Streets. It will replace 4 existing buildings: an ugly above-ground garage, an old brick dorm, and two victorian houses (which will be lifted...