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    Otis House | 141 Cambridge St. | West End

    https://www.archpaper.com/2022/02/nadaaa-will-reimagine-the-historic-otis-house-in-boston/
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    CommonBoston07 architecture and design festival

    Sorry to post this here but I think you would all agree this benefits from the most exposure.... Anyways for the last few months Ive been part of this group called CommonBoston. Check out the website at commonboston.org. The short summary is that our flagship event, a citywide architecture and...
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    Hynes renovation

    From the Boston Globe business blog tonight.... Major Hynes renovation proposed An $18 million renovation plan has been proposed for the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston's Back Bay. According to the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, which owns and oversees...
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    Stark sells out in Boston

    From the Slatin Report: > RESIDENTIAL | BOS 04 11 07 STARCK'S DOWNSCALE DELIGHT Peter Hellman The 367-unit Parris Landing complex in the Charlestown Navy Yard, seen from Boston Harbor. As a star of the 1972 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team and a former left wing for the Hartford Whalers, Kevin...
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    BCA plaza redesign winner

    Winner of the architectural competition to design the plaza around the BCA in the South End has been decided. View the website with information and images here: http://insideout.bcaonline.org/ - JS
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    Chronicle architecture story

    To air this Friday: Homepage > Local News > Chronicle Friday, Jan. 19: Durable Designs POSTED: 11:59 am EST January 11, 2007 Email This Story | Print This Story The John Hancock tower. Trinity Church. City Hall Plaza. They are icons of Boston, known around the world, sometimes fondly...
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    RFP for new cruise terminal

    Review the document here: http://www.massport.com/about/pdf/c_rfi_cruis_termi.pdf A good chance for a dramatic, contemporary piece of architecture to serve as a gateway to the seaport and Boston.... Lets hope for the best......... I would nominate Grimshaw as architect...
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    Possible explanation for lacklustre Boston design

    An article from Slate reproduced below is an analysis of perhaps why cities like Boston and the ones discussed sometimes fail to produce excellent contemporary architecture or design....thoughts? Perhaps an emergence of a new "Boston school" of architecture discussed a while back will help...
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    If Logan Airport were moved....

    An interesting (speculative, obviously will never happen but still food for thought) proposal for what might replace Logan Airport in about 80 years.... By the way, this guy will lecture next Wednesday at the BPL as part of the BSA Design Lecture series. I will be there, anyone else want to...
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    Harvard Allston Life Sciences complex

    Benisch Architects, of the Genzyme Center and as mentioned in the previous post are now designing some North Point buildings, also won the commission for the first major new Harvard project in the new Allston campus, a new biosciences complex. They are working with Next Phase Studios. Go to...
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    MIT Expansion Plans | MIT/Kendall Square | Cambridge

    MIT will accelerate its building boom $750m expansion to add 4 facilities By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff | September 14, 2006 MIT is planning a $750 million expansion over the next few years, adding three dramatic academic buildings and an apartment complex for graduate students. The...
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    Nice Boston/Cape Cod/VT photo thread

    Posted over on SSC and SSP: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=384663
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    Brigham Women's new research building

    Architectural site for project: http://www.chankrieger.com/ar/bwh/bwh.html
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    Boston balloon

    Who is (unlike me) not afraid of heights? Soon it will be time to get up there again and take some amazing aerials.... http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=3255 I missed it last time, glad its coming back!
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    BU Biolab

    Website for the new controversial BU Biolab project. I thought legal battles were still ongoing about this, but apparently construction has already begun: http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=1078&id=39657
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    Patriots Place

    Looking forward to some renderings...too bad this all couldnt have been built in the South Boston Waterfront like Kraft originally wanted instead of out there on Route 1...smart-growth my behind...never got why they didnt want the football stadium in Southie but then lobbied for a new Red Sox...
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    Westin waterfront hotel

    Boston Globe article and photo gallery on the opening of the new BCEC hotel on the South Boston waterfront: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/06/22/amid_a_fair_breeze_the_westin_launches/
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    Yawkey Center @ Dana Farber | 450 Brookline Ave | Longwood Medical Area

    I thought a new thread for LMA-area developments should be started, to bring over information from the old board. Projects such as the Boston Center for Life Sciences and the new Beth Israel building. I'll start with a new discovery I made today. http://www.mds-bos.com/ Click on "Portfolio"...
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    Harvard Allston development

    A new article from the Harvard Gazette, including links to other Allston planning resources: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/06.08/10-allston.html
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    Development story videos

    The current NECN Business video section has stories on Menino's skyscraper plans, developing Dudley Square and the new BMS plant planned for Fort Devens: http://www.boston.com/news/necn/Business/ (Scroll down to find all videos)

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