gone

Towers of ilium is proud to present this image of a modern ruin in motion. I commented on this building, and its doomed status, a few months ago. As of yesterday evening, this structure ceased to exist in Boston. I had a few opportunities to watch some machines gently pull this thing to pieces. It was almost as entertaining as the new Batman movie--and a bit more poignant.

The architecture of a city expresses the evolution of the city. Progress and improvement are actually quite subjective attributes, and the destruction of one building and its replacement by another only reveals that a set of circumstances made change happen. I want to make a distinction between decision and planning--the latter implies a hubris and an overestimation of the power that a particular group wields to craft the landscape of the metropolis for more than a few decades.