This brand-new park in West Roxbury resulted from the Menino Project initiative, which “created an interface between the academic community and the people by bringing together academics with a local advisory board to work collaboratively on a plan”. Envisioning a new public use of the Gardner Street landfill was an outcome of this Project. While...
The House of Dreams, more commonly known as Highfield Hall & Gardens, features a theme-based exhibit featuring a newly commissioned 17 minute film, many new artifacts, and the Summer Salon, a recreated gilded age safe space for the female occupants of the house. It is a spectacular restoration accessible to all visitors who are engaged...
The virtue of decay When built in 1863, the tenement at 97 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of New York City was considered a hygienic building with outhouses connected to the sewer and a reservoir-fed pump just for residents. But by 1935 it made more sense for the owner to evict the...
Driving east along the Sunrise Highway just before you enter the Hamptons you pass through a portion of the highway that crosses the land of the Shinnecock Nation. There is a large digital pylon for each direction of the highway that someday will advertise their planned casino. The Nation are recognized by the Federal government...
Day two in Long Island, was as enjoyable as it was fast. Yes, fast, everyone is driving 10 mph above the speed limit, and when they see my Massachusetts plates I swear they up it to 15! Before the project start-up meeting and exhibit evaluation at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, I visited the observation deck...