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City Hall – don’t give up all hope

Move City Hall to the Seaport District? Sure, why not? I’d prefer Roxbury, but who am I to say? Anything but keeping it where it is now. I hate the building. It’s ugly to look at. Regardless of its aesthetic, however, it’s impractical and useless....

ICA sues developer, developer sues ICA, messy situation ensues

Boston architecture and design, Boston real estate developments and projects

Guess there’s been some problems over at the new ICA. According to the Boston Business Journal: The Institute of Contemporary Art has been open for nearly a year but construction on the $51 million project continues today to repair a cracked floor and improperly...

The Stoneholm – fancy Brookline condo living

Boston architecture and design

I was not familiar with this building. Beacon Street building celebrated for architecture, history – By Jessica Scarpati, The Brookline TAB Built in 1907, the Stoneholm is an architecturally imposing-looking condo building sitting at 1514 Beacon St became a...

Let me tell you what’s brutalist!

Boston architecture and design

The hulking Harbor Garage, on a premier site near the Boston waterfront and New England Aquarium, is going on the market today and will likely be redeveloped into a mixed-use complex friendlier to the city’s waterfront visitors. The concrete garage, designed in...

Boston’s City Hall is awesome! (sarcasm)

Boston architecture and design

I.GIVE.UP. Boston’s City Hall – a landmark? It’s unique, but is it a landmark? – By Matt Viser, The Boston Globe Yesterday, the Boston Landmarks Commission took up a petition, backed by a group of architects and preservationists, to grant the...

We’ve somehow slipped into an alternate universe

Boston architecture and design

Apparently, an architect has proposed 19-story residential tower for the Chinatown / TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan, to be located at 87 Lafayette Street. 1) The building is shaped this way because the developer hopes to buy the “air rights” above the...