Although the designer Peter Brooks talks about avoiding the formal representational statuary in coming up with his design it seems similar to the piece near Porter Square in Cambridge above).
"Rotating blue panels reaching 22 feet into the air may not look like a welcome mat, but they greet travelers as they enter Allston."
Discovering the lost waterways of Allston. Kate Bowditch and the Charles River Watershed Association are looking into whether restoring the Allston side of the Charles River to a more natural state, including exposing streams now buried under the city, could reduce flooding and other problems.
"Bowditch said her group's main goal is to figure out how the drainage systems in North Allston work and how to make them work better.
Using old maps of the area, some dating back as far as the mid-1800s, Bowditch and her colleagues have pinpointed several waterways that once drained the area.
One stream, which the group has named Allston Creek, formerly ran from near the Everett Street Interstate 90 overpass to the Charles, just north of the Western Avenue Bridge. Technically, Allston Creek is still there. It's just out of sight, running under North Allston in a series of branching pipes. Bowditch and her colleagues want to bring it back to the surface - to "daylight" it, she says - and break up the neighborhood's large tracts of concrete and asphalt with greenways, public parks, and trees."
An interesting idea that could help make the Allston side of the river more enjoyable. It is fascinating to hear about the layers of history in the city but also the layers of the environment. London's subterranean rivers are well-known but Boston's seem unknown.
Chinese punk rock band Brain Failure comes to Allston. They'll be playing at Great Scott (1222 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02134)on December 19th. Brain Failure have been encouraged and have toured with Dropkick Murphys.
Nice and comprehensive photoset of Harvard Law School's move of 3 houses down Mass Ave that rerouted traffic over the weekend. Apparently the houses were moved a bit earlier than some thought so quite a few photographers were disappointed on the day of the move.
Harvard's plan for its Allston campus have been controversial with residents so its unclear how they'll respond to a feature that is popular with groups at the school: a sustainable farm. Harvard's current presence in Allston is primarily centered around the Harvard Stadium and Harvard Business School but one of the ideas for the massive plan is to incorporate a variety of uses as well as place an emphasis on sustainability so the farm might be one of an eclectic group of uses.
