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This rendering also didn't look terrible: http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h32/wxmike/FanPierOffice1.jpg

Ghastly! It's like they took the worst parts of the worst buildings in Boston and mashed them down into two stumps. Nothing says real estate dud like having to pay a company $72M to move into your building. (In successful real estate developments, the tenant actually pays the landlord)...

Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building) My comment wasn't directly about these really slick renderings. My comment was about the shorter, fatter, uglier stumps that are actually going to get built. Knowing this is the process keeps developers and architects dumb, because they are...

Re: Garden Garage Towers (New West End building) Another fine design from Boss Menino, AIA. You can't blame Equity or the architect for doing what is ordered. Look at the renderings again, chop off 7 stories, fatten each tower up a little, cheapen down the materials, and there you have it...

I think it's hysterical that the "high vice" shaded area on left-hand side of the map looks like a dick and balls!

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Please, please, please... this garage needs a big, brightly-lit, brass-lettered sign: "The Thomas M. Menino Legacy Garage" I know I've proposed this before, but it would be one of the greatest things ever to happen. It would actually go from an...

Re: Developer plans $300M project for Fenway If you don't build new luxury housing, old, middle-class tenements are just converted to luxury housing. New construction is, by definition, "luxury" construction. Look what happened in the South End - no new construction allowed, and all the old...

Re: 319 A Street Rear When you factor in the Davis-Macon union bribery, the bags of cash you need to appease the enviro-nuts, the linkage bribery shakedown payments to neighborhood activists, and everything else we force developers to do in order to inflate their costs, at the end of the day...

Many years back the city released a report on rebuilding Dorchester Avenue. The expensive, pretty useless project (I live just off Dot Ave) actually states that since there are six different types of lighting used on the many miles of the street, all should be ripped out and replaced. Even the...

Re: Dana Farber Cancer Care Center So terra cotta is in? That means it's already out.

I see your point Statler, but... The old ghetto of the West End was certainly not comparable to a "Locke-Ober" Charles River Park when it opened actually was the most ultra-luxury thing Bostonians had ever seen - it wasn't Locke-Ober because it has no history, but it's like a very fancy new...

Statler - sounds like you're blaming the people of the 2000s for the things that were done in the 1950s/60s. We all hate Charles River Park and I even hate whatever new crap the BRA allowed the new owners to build (no offense to the ad guy or your clients). It's a shit development that forever...

and then...

They banned texting while driving... but not taking photos while driving... I shot this basically accidently, just put the camera up in my windshield, clicked and prayed something nice would come out...

Thanks! Just lousy iPhone pics - heavily cropped. All three taken from Charlestown.

Three of the Zakim...

Navy Yard, Constitution, Tobin

Love the two shots from such similar angles! Our World Class Waterfront has really taken off since 2001! There's a lonely office stump there now and a trailer selling clothes.

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) Chiafaro NEEDS to quickly rename this garage: The Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Garage Big, bold, brass, lit-up lettering for all to see. Just leave it there for decades.

I love that pic of the Tobin!