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Every summer, New York City’s P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens transforms its courtyard into an outdoor party place. Each Saturday, local (young people?) eat, drink and dance while a D.J. spins tunes from 3 to 9 p.m. The Museum of Fine...

I’ll tell you where you can put your 1,000-foot tower, Mr Mayor

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The Globe’s architect critic has his own opinions on the Mayor’s proposal for a 1,000-foot skyscraper: There’s a place in Boston for skyscrapers, but this isn’t it – By Robert Campbell, The Boston Globe Let’s put the big buildings...

Back Bay Architectural Commission to Apple: Drop Dead

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The Back Bay Architectural Commission (BBAC) has come out against Apple Computer Inc.’s proposal to build a four-story, glass-covered “jewel” on Boylston Street, in the Back Bay. From The Boston Courant: (The new building)…”is quite...

All architecture is derivative

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I was reading the most recent issue of Fortune, as I do every other Friday, when I came across an advertisement for the new Puerto Rico Convention Center. Puerto Rico Convention Center Beautiful, no? But, somehow, I had a weird, deja-vu feeling about the building. I...

Funny photo – Boston, by way of Dubai

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Sure, most people in Boston would be happy to lose the Prudential Center tower, the first of what has proven to be a veritable plague of B skyscrapers forming a lackluster spine in the Back Bay and marring the Hub for all eternitude. That said, Boston is a proud town,...

Slam! Take that, Le Corbusier!

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Christopher Caldwell writes in The New York Times Magazine about the French riots and how Swiss architect Le Corbusier is partly to blame. Le Corbusier was notable for his idea of the “Radiant City”. In a nutshell: In the Radiant City, however, the...