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A compromise reached between City Hall and developers of a planned 299-foot-tall residential tower in Chinatown will reduce the height by 34 feet, but means elimination of the revered Dainty Dot building on the site …
… The compromise, described last night to the Boston Design Review Commission, includes reducing […]

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A developer wants to build a 26-story condo building at the corners of Essex Street and the Surface Road, where Chinatown meets the financial district.
From today’s Globe:
Nothing captures the conflicts in Chinatown today better than the saga of the old Dainty Dot Hosiery building at 120 Kingston St.
It’s the one that, depending on perspective, […]

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Interesting idea being floated by a private developer (not sure how he benefits from this?).
According to the Herald:
As Suffolk University looks to build a new downtown campus away from its long-time Beacon Hill home, some are urging the school to consider selling off its valuable real estate holdings in the historic neighorhood.
Hub developer John Ryan […]

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The Simon Group, the property developer behind Copley Place, has proposed a residential tower to rise above and beside the Neiman-Marcus department store, at the corner of Dartmouth and Stuart streets.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) is organizing a group of local citizens to advise the city’s planning department on if and what should be built.
If […]

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John Hynes and Gale International have released preliminary designs of their massive Seaport Square project, planned for the South Boston Waterfront (ha ha!). (There are more renderings in the .pdf.)
Also, they have created several renderings of what Washington Street will look like when their Filene’s building rebuild is completed.
Meanwhile, the developer is busy with […]

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Next year marks the 120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower. To celebrate, the French will be adding a gigantic webbed Kevlar observation deck to the top, doubling the size of the deck and making the Eiffel Tower look like some sort of alien space needle.

Source: ArchBoston.com
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Remember the “Spite House”? It was profiled on “Small Spaces, Big Style” or whatever that show was called, the one on HGTV?
There was another story on it, this time in the New York Times:
The house, 7 feet wide, about 25 feet deep and a whopping 325 square feet in two stories, is a tiny […]

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Rendering of Russia Wharf.

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The old building is in the forefront; the new rises above.
Nice shadows on the InterContinental, btw.
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At one time, the developer of Two Financial Center envisioned a grand residential tower to fill the space, just behind South Station.
Times have changed, so have the developer’s plans.
Currently under construction, it will now be a mid-rise office building.

UPDATE: The developer’s website: 2 Financial Center
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