Red Sox / BRA Land Swap

[whighlander]

we romanticize the past partly because we are left with many of the best remaining parts of it. not all brutalism will/should stay. but what will stay will be those that best exemplify it and work with the world today. Think Christian Science vs. Gov't Center.

Coo -- that is a Romanticized vision of how buildings get selected for preservation

Often the stuff that remains after the hand of progress is still there because of some odd factor -- then much later it gets retained for preservation reasons

Thus we lose the John Hancock House and we keep the far less distinguished office building owned by his Uncle -- just because its located in what becomes a backwater and nobody notices it for a century or so

 

[FenwayResident]

"tragically"? Vs. what, happily?

A 90 year old dying on their bed with their family at their side is not tragic. Sad, perhaps, but not tragic.