From the category archives:
Yesterday afternoon, I took a walk around Charlestown with my camera. I walked along the Mystic, from the Charlestown High School playing fields down to the Navy Yard, taking photos of everything and anything that caught my attention (which is a lot).
After a couple hours of walking and shooting, my camera warned that battery exhaustion [...]
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At SHIFTBoston, we saw the top 20 ideas presented by the expert panel, but what about the other 122 proposals? At least one firm is very proud of its proposal, and believe it would make a great addition to the city’s infrastructure.
Boston is a walkable city. I can vouch for this reputation, having walked from [...]
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I love it when I check my email and find, hidden amongst the spam and less-than-personal pitch emails, messages like the one from Brian McAlpine of Eternal Furniture & Design, “a one man shop located just outside of Boston, MA, specializes in custom, one of a kind furniture with hand made craftsmanship.”
Brian’s work combines modern, minimalist [...]
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Andrzej Zarzycki and Sapir Ng are moving from “What if?” to “Why not?” The winners of the SHIFTBoston competition in January were at PechaKucha Boston last Wednesday, where they introduced TUTS.
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Undeterred after quitting a (failed?) project to build a 1,000 square foot tower in Winthrop Square, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano has returned to Boston. The scale of this project is certainly smaller than his last, but by no means is it less grand.
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Every time I go to Vessel, I take note of an interesting assortment of stationary they stock. Vessel’s Milisa told me it’s from a local company, Bob’s Your Uncle. She told me that BYU is based right in Fort Point Channel, and they run a store in front of the office called, not too ironically, [...]
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Ever since the Puma City display last spring, I’ve been fascinated with using shipping containers for architecture. You can imagine my pleasant surprise, then, when I discovered the Box Office, an office building made of shipping containers 50 miles away, in Providence, RI.
Designed by Distill Studio and built by Stack Design-Build, the Box Office is [...]
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