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Article: Visions and revisions ; We asked designers to suggest ways to spruce up stalled building projects around the city. Practical and whimsical alike, the results are a far cry from Boston's buttoned-down norm.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2009
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There is no telling when a building will rise again at the
stalled Filene's redevelopment, so the city's architects are filling
the void with a few ideas of their own: One is proposing to use the
site for a makeshift movie theater, another envisions an exhibit for
1950s neon signs, and still another imagines a towering vertical
garden to grow algae for alternative fuels.
The ideas are not restrained by considerations of practicality or
cost, and they are not meant to be. They represent an effort to do
something creative with a landscape marred by a prolonged slump in
commercial building. At stalled work sites, architects and planners
are seeking to create forums for artistic expression and ...