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Link?
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I think it is this one:
http://www.demolishthegarage.com/pdf/presentations/pres_2008_07_23.pdf
I think it is this one:
http://www.demolishthegarage.com/pdf/presentations/pres_2008_07_23.pdf
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I like the garage better. A least its big and powerful - like a city. The proposals are frail, short and uninspired - nothing new there. I'd rather see it left alone until a new era dawns for architecture and urban planning in Boston.
I like the garage better. A least its big and powerful - like a city. The proposals are frail, short and uninspired - nothing new there. I'd rather see it left alone until a new era dawns for architecture and urban planning in Boston.
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wow leave the garage. hugely dissappointing. I don't get where they're making money... I guess the offices facing the Greenway are class A...
wow leave the garage. hugely dissappointing. I don't get where they're making money... I guess the offices facing the Greenway are class A...
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This is just the little front parcel. The idea, as they state in their materials is that the tall buildings would step back from the greenway. THis is just the "front' of the garage area - not a replacement for the whole garage.
This is just the little front parcel. The idea, as they state in their materials is that the tall buildings would step back from the greenway. THis is just the "front' of the garage area - not a replacement for the whole garage.
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scheme 4 is somewhat preferable, but not by much.. Seems like the whole thing is a scheme alright...
scheme 4 is somewhat preferable, but not by much.. Seems like the whole thing is a scheme alright...
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I like how the PDF claims that scheme 11 has all Pros and no Cons. What about its repugnant appearance?
I like how the PDF claims that scheme 11 has all Pros and no Cons. What about its repugnant appearance?
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Lame as hell.
Lame as hell.
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None of this excites me. Keep trying...
None of this excites me. Keep trying...
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Can we let someone besides Krieger, Elkus/Manfredi or CBT try? This town needs an Irwin Miller, so we could throw some money at OfficeDA or Utile and see what they come up with.
Can we let someone besides Krieger, Elkus/Manfredi or CBT try? This town needs an Irwin Miller, so we could throw some money at OfficeDA or Utile and see what they come up with.
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I'm holding out hope that these renderings are just placeholders used to better visualize the massing of the site. If you look at Krieger's website, none of his projects are as horribly bland and uninspiring as this one...so I think/hope/pray that the real design is yet to come.
Also, all articles mention Krieger's firm only as the master planners. Does that mean we could be seeing different architects working on the individual buildings?
I'm holding out hope that these renderings are just placeholders used to better visualize the massing of the site. If you look at Krieger's website, none of his projects are as horribly bland and uninspiring as this one...so I think/hope/pray that the real design is yet to come.
Also, all articles mention Krieger's firm only as the master planners. Does that mean we could be seeing different architects working on the individual buildings?
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Why are they keeping part of the existing garage? I was hoping the whole damned thing would get wiped out.
Why are they keeping part of the existing garage? I was hoping the whole damned thing would get wiped out.
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These guys are hacks ... even if (or perhaps because) they teach at Harvard.
Eleven schemes ... and every one a clunker.
No use. If you've got no talent, a lifetime isn't enough.
These guys are hacks ... even if (or perhaps because) they teach at Harvard.
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As bad as the "designs" are, none of this accomplishes anything. None of the renderings, albeit placeholders, reconnects any of the neighborhoods the way I had hoped. Why remove any of the garage at all? It serves a purpose.
As bad as the "designs" are, none of this accomplishes anything. None of the renderings, albeit placeholders, reconnects any of the neighborhoods the way I had hoped. Why remove any of the garage at all? It serves a purpose.
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I was wondering if they were too. Part of me thinks the piece of the garage in the renderings is a placeholder to show where the rendering for that parcel is in relation to where the garage is/was; while I'm also worried that they'd actually consider saving some of it.
In any case, the renderings are uninspired. I would hope for more, but unfortunately, it's just the kind of crap that NIMBYs and neighborhood groups could get behind. I do like that they're developing each parcel individually. Perhaps, crappy architecture aside, the completed project can look like separate mini-projects. I don't like the mass-developed seaport-style projects that are blocks of bland architecture. Then again, different bland architecture is still bland architecture.
I'm going to wait to see the rest of the project before reserving complete judgement. There's nowhere to go but up???? (fingers crossed)
I was wondering if they were too. Part of me thinks the piece of the garage in the renderings is a placeholder to show where the rendering for that parcel is in relation to where the garage is/was; while I'm also worried that they'd actually consider saving some of it.
In any case, the renderings are uninspired. I would hope for more, but unfortunately, it's just the kind of crap that NIMBYs and neighborhood groups could get behind. I do like that they're developing each parcel individually. Perhaps, crappy architecture aside, the completed project can look like separate mini-projects. I don't like the mass-developed seaport-style projects that are blocks of bland architecture. Then again, different bland architecture is still bland architecture.
I'm going to wait to see the rest of the project before reserving complete judgement. There's nowhere to go but up???? (fingers crossed)