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Seemingly nor does Amtrak... and they're setting the tone for the industry/leading the pack. This sounds like it's practically lifted from Amtrak's plan for the Intercity Trainset configuration (PDF pg 128, doc pg 126), due to replace the Northeast Corridor equipment (among others). The...

Commute to Boston or Cambridge? It's a 10-15 min walk from the new location of the new Chelsea station, which generally has 15-30 min weekday frequency and is only slated to go down with commuter rail modernization. Silver Line is a 20 min walk for folks going to downtown or Seaport. 0.5 spaces...

If the Pentagon were an apartment building... It's... obscene, but it'll be a boatload of housing so I say let's build 10 more. Though maybe not with so much parking with a decent amount of transit and impending walkability. 564 spaces to 450 units still makes me gag... encouraging that many...

ABSOLUTELY. They'll probably hold off on any major work until after the adjacent parcels are nearing completion of adjacent ROW work...

With the insanely 'architecty' discussion that happens at the public BCDC meetings, I can't even begin to imagine what happens in their 'committee' meetings, let alone how we still end up with stuff like this. I get the complex nature of the site and the pedestrian realm actually isn't too bad...

🥺 It's so beautiful... From a few other angles that show how this starting to have a dramatic impact here.

First pic is from Thursday and second is from just now. It feels like the core popped up out of nowhere last week.

Could a mod update the thread name? It was a little difficult to find... 😅 Might I suggest: Beth Israel West Campus Inpatient Building | 111 Francis St | Longwood These are from Sunday. The contrast between this very straightforward glass curtainwall (for now) and the... contemporary 1990s...

Solid stuff from Samuels, again. Just homes for people to live in. I'll never applaud any development for off-street parking, but at least it's all tucked on the inside of the block and fits neatly within the same 1.5 floor height of the retail frontage. 78 spaces to 273 units is a decently...

it's too modern it's too tall you're ruining the character of the neighborhood can you imagine the shadows this will cast on Newbury Street??? there's too much density where will all these people put their cars?

I think 'distinctive' is a very charitable word for this infill tower, but it certainly stands out among its neighbors and breaks up a bit of the monotony of the block as it is today. I think it'll be most effective at doing that in this angle from Boston: Always love to see parking go away...

I feel like this zoomed-out view from the D Street bridge really shows how this building and its neighbor are filling in a gap where it previously felt uncomfortably open on this side.

17 floors still feels so short, but I know that cost scales with height. I'm just happy we're continuing to get more infill housing downtown here, especially with all the folks (grad students rooming together, international students with deep pockets, software developers and other knowledge...

Sorry, late to the party... I'm really loving how they've managed to fit all the BOH loading and garage entry into a relatively compact corner facing onto Boston Wharf Road and the rest of the base of the building is wrapped in retail space. I especially appreciate how they're having the office...

The rounded-ish floor plates are really satisfying to see for some reason...

Yeah, that struck me, too. I had forgotten in the renderings that the plan was actually to tear down part of the warehouse portion of the structure and build a courtyard behind the head house. The two structures will still be contiguous on the other side to the eastern face, but I agree that...

Yep, just the HDR image processing with iPhone 11 Pro. In lower lighting, it's a little too aggressive with detail sharpening, but overall it's made for effortlessly beautiful photos, especially during golden hour. I'd probably have to spend hours in Lightroom just to get the photos to be as...

The benches are okay and I honestly like the touch of wood. (I'm looking to procure street furniture for a bus stop amenity program and I've become obsessed with choosing any bench material other than metal after the number of uncomfortable benches I've sat on during the pandemic to sit outside...

Yeah, it definitely reads like I've stumbled upon the largely untouched upscale shopping district that everyone fled at the start of a zombie outbreak. In my headcanon, they all ran to the marinas to get their yachts out of cold storage and fled, so there was no one left to scuff up the place...

From Saturday. Just striking how nothing in these photos existed 5 years ago. I really hope this space livens up after the pandemic and as the units fill up, but as y'all have cautioned, retail has been in a decline for years and many of these spaces may just fill up with banks and offices that...