Photo of the Day, Boston Style - Part Deux

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^^ It was consumed by odd combination of haze, solar glare and bad photography. :?
 
If there ever was a building in Boston to just up and disappear, it would be this one. I believe it's 50 Milk St, one of the many 80s "contextual" towers that utterly blend into their surroundings. Others in this category would be 155 Federal, 260 and 265 Franklin, and the two Custom House St. buildings, (I think they're numbers 20 and 21).
 
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one of my favorite buildings for whatever reason.
 
It's called the Parkside and it's on the corner of Hemenway and Westland Ave. Next to Woody's Pizza (mmmm)
 
^ How the Greenway should look and feel --if we must have a Greenway.

Space is defined by a continuous streetwall of handsomely designed building faces that were always meant to be seen.

Streetwall-to-space ratio is exactly right. If the space is wider (as Greenway is), the streetwall needs to be higher.
 
No, stupid. The boot on the car clearly gives away that it is New York City.
 
^ Notice how today's Faneuil Hall Marketplace North Building is revealed to have been a multiplicity of buildings with different owners, different standards of maintenance, and sometimes different architectural transformation.

Then: de-centralized small scale and micro-entrepreneurial, like the West and North Ends. Today: centralized, unified under one management. Big bucks capitalism triumphant.
 
^^ And you can't really buy anything useful there anymore, either. It used to be an actual market, with pushcarts selling fruit and fish. Imagine if it still contained grocery stores and apartments. At least Durgin Park soldiers on...
 
^ I've always thought they could move it onto a corner of the site and develop at least part of the site around it. There's no reason the building, as the Louis Boston store, deserves its own lawn; it's no longer an institutional building that sets itself off from the commercial city by stepping back from the street, as it was when it served as MIT or the Museum of Natural History.
 
One could also argue that this break in the Boylston streetwall adds some variety to the scene.
 
One could also argue that this break in the Boylston streetwall adds some variety to the scene.
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I agree...the break is nice. But walking around the site, the amount of space seems so lavish for that part of the city. At least the area between Louis Boston and the old New England Life building could be used for something...
 
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