Category: Redevelopment

In praise of folly: Part 2, the financials

23 October, 2009 (10:23) | Architecture, Boston, Humor, Redevelopment, Speculation, US News | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
In yesterday’s post, I expended several hundred words in a possibly-unnecessary exercise – intellectually demolishing the feasibility of architectural speculations, presented in the Boston Globe, that I believe even their proponents would concede are whimsical fantasies, never intended to exist beyond CAD/CAM screens and jpegs. 
 
They represent an [...]

In praise of folly: Part 1, the fantasies

22 October, 2009 (11:47) | Architecture, Boston, Humor, Redevelopment, Speculation, US News | No comments

By: David A. Smith

“So this unemployed architect walks into a bar and says, ‘our erections can last for years’.” 
 
Okay, maybe not precisely that cheesily, but something similarly whimsical had to have been in the minds of Boston Globe editors when they sent out an offer to under-employed architects, What would you do to [...]