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The State Street building on A Street in Fort Point

Zinnia really likes the new State Street building in Channel Center in Fort Point.

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to give red traffic lights more contrast. The Boston area in general is piss poor at using black backplates with reflective surrounds. These reduce the number of drivers blowing through lights they did not see.

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We see the lights. We just choose to ignore them. It's okay unless you're riding a bike.

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Can't remember where now, but I saw a light the other day where inside the red light was a white strobe light, which would activate when the light was red. Might've been a tunnel entrance near S. Station?

New traffic lights in New Hampshire not only have a black backplate but the plate is also outlined in reflective yellow paint.

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who did the MassArt dorm on Huntington Ave. a few years ago.

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This architectural style is taking over many new projects around Boston. I think it is going to look obsolete in less than ten years and fall into the same category as the city's many failed attempts at brutalism.

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Vaguely reminiscent of this.

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I sorta dig both this, and the building in the link. While I can agree that the absurd amount of brutalist architecture in this city is a bit- uh, overwhelming, Im happy to say that Boston has some seriously memorable buildings. A skyline one can actually pick out unlike more modern cities like LA, Denver, and Minneapolis,

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I think buildings like this, with randomly sized and hued rectangles and the building-that-looks-like-two-buildings trick, look obsolete before they're finished.

See also this thing taking shape in Central Square: https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/4358103/completedsiterevised.jpg

The giant piece of metal with random round holes would look great in the 1960s modern art wing of a museum, but it doesn't do much for Mass Ave.

And https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3860/14463566245_e597535e8f_c.jpg couldn't be a more boring glass box, except for the boxy/staircasey tumors sticking out of it.

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if it's by the same architects but they're both hideous.

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The building facade looks like a carpet tile sampler in a discount show room.

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...1950's Gauche.

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This building has some of the lowest square foot per worker ratio in the City. It is cram city there. Slave Street just moved their feeding pens from North Quincy to here. Tax breaks were given to move the downtown footprint towards Broadway. This wasn't some altruistic move.

The city could spend a few dollars for some better lighting and crosswalk control at West Second and A or someone is going to get clipped walking from here to Broadway. It is dark in the winter coming southerly on A, old habits die hard from drivers (like me) who have been driving this road and not expecting people there since A was a back way off of the X-Way into the city and not a well developing office / residential / restaurant environment.

Also from experience, the mind numbing work that the galley rowers have to do in the custodial portion of the mutual find business and the low pay makes you have to dash to your second job from your first at State Street. It is a somewhat soul crushing environment.

A multi-billion dollar company has workers in the area paying more taxes. BTD - Please do a little better on the traffic / pedestrian flow towards Broadway, you may save a life or two.

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Dashing from your mind-numbing job doing fund accounting to the closest pub to drown your sorrows and plot your next career move.

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I testified against the tax break for this on the basis that it was insane to give one of the wealthiest companies in the world a tax break to construct a building they were going to build in any case. Also pointed out that at the time that State Street was under investigation for defrauding both the state and city pension funds. The BRA board cut me off in the middle of my testimony and with no discussion handed State Street millions of dollars in tax breaks.

PS - nice picture Zinnia - cool contrast with the traffic light.

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Don't worry Mayor Walsh is looking to one up this project by subsidizing moneybags John Rosenthal's perpetually delayed air rights project.

We can't get affordable housing built or property tax relief but developers with $$$$$ coming out of their $$$$$$$ get taxpayer gravy so the developers don't have to spend a dime of their own.

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