Grey Seas, Grey Sky

[DowntownDave]

As if the soul destroying grey skies weren't enough this weekend, here are a bunch of grey ships to go along with then..

Two Japanese destroyers are a long way from home:

YAMAGIRI (TV-3515), an obsolescent destroyer now used as a training vessel:

Tourists get a close look at the 76mm gun, ASROC and the embarked SH-60 Seahawk.

YAMAGIRI's sister AMAGIRI:

Lewis Wharf:

Finally a hint of color today:

I read recently that the Nantucket Lightship was up for sale; this must account for her exile from the Rowe's wharf mooring where she used to tie up.

Balcony seat, anyone?

I hardly even recognize the old State Street tower any more:

Hmmm an ultra expensive yacht named 'Black Sheep.' Somebody has too much of Daddy's money to spend..

Recent scholarship has determined that Columbus was actually beheaded by natives, and the statue has been updated to reflect this fact.

Seriously, though, anyone know what happened to the statue? Vandalism?

There's no way that this shack can be in use any more, as suggested on another thread:

This tugboat seems to have suffered some sort of propulsion casualty, or it suddenly decided to lay down a smoke screen:

The JUAN SEBASTIAN DE ELCANO, official training ship of the Spanish Navy, was also in town:

ICA gets into the act:

At least the Spanish flag adds some color to the weekend...

 

[ablarc]

They need to remove that statue. It presented Columbus as a knock-kneed wimp. Truly an embarassment.

Someone said that vandalism is often a form of artistic criticism.

Boston Harbor was infinitely more interesting before it was taken over for recreational uses. Paradoxically it was more recreational then, if you mean by that word: "giving rise to amusement." You saw the world unsanitized --and it's almost always more interesting that way.

Courthouse is awful. Boston's worst building. Pretentious, clumsy, incompetent.

Thanks for the pics, DowntownDave; you're not the cause of my funk, the New Boston is. All those good intentions, and it's getting duller all the time.

 

[kz1000ps]

I just visited the Chucktown Navy yard for the first time a couple weeks ago, but I no longer have a camera, so this thread pretty much makes up for it - thanks! And I like the dreary grey vibe, in a depressive self-destructing kinda way...

One question, what's the big brick building in the background here? If I remember correctly, it had professional offices on the first floor, but I imagine that the upper levels have to be residential.

 

[DowntownDave]

That is Flagship Wharf. I hope you have lots of cash....

 

[kz1000ps]

$500k to 3 mil, eh? I'll check back in 5 years once I'm a famous musician.

 

[Corey]

Thanks for the photos!

 

[bowesst]

Thanks for the pics, DowntownDave; you're not the cause of my funk, the New Boston is. All those good intentions, and it's getting duller all the time.

Yeah, Charlotte is way better.

 

[briv]

I can empathize with Ablarc. I get down in the same sort of funk from time to time. New development in this city can do that to someone who gives a damn.

 

[justin]

I agree too; my solution is to declare Boston architecturally dead forever, and be happy for every little fly that occasionally flies of the corpse, like the ICA.

justin

 

[bowesst]

Why? In the last 50 years has there been a better period for new development? Sure, we don't have any real cutting edge projects like New York or Dubai but that doesn't mean we won't at some point. Every time I post a picture all I hear is, "Cool picture too bad all those buildings suck..." Yeah, we understood how you felt the first 50 times you said it.

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying we shouldn't be critical but I get pretty tired of reading the same monotonous negativity over and over again. I just feel like the negativity on this board outweighs the positivity when it should be the other way around.

 

[bowesst]

BTW Dave, great pictures. I really like this one.

 

[DowntownDave]

Thanks. At least there are a few pictures not in greyscale....

 

[callahan]

These are fantastic! They are a great representation of the wharf district today.

 

[ablarc]

Every time I post a picture all I hear is, "Cool picture too bad all those buildings suck..."

That's because you're such a good photographer, bowesst. If the buildings were equally good, you'd hear more about that and you'd wonder if you were still good.

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying we shouldn't be critical...

Yes, you are.

...but I get pretty tired of reading the same monotonous negativity over and over again.

Speaking for myself, I'll try to make the "negativity" more varied in the future.

I just feel like the negativity on this board outweighs the positivity when it should be the other way around.

It should indeed --and there should be good reason for it. But when things are bad its positive to decry it.

I just spent a day on jury duty. All that negativity...why don't those prosecutors lighten up a bit?

Or maybe we could just have less crime.



Btw, Charlotte is much worse than Boston . If it had an architecture forum I wouldn't be a member. That should tell you what I think of Boston. I don't live in Charlotte for the architecture.