Paul's House Diary

Here are a few more taken downtown on walks back from class. I took the image featured while attempting to sneak a peak at the Occupy Boston encampment. It turned out what I though was the encampment was in fact a farmers market, whose vendors must have been bull about their neighbors on the square, stealing their look and keeping any potential 1%er’s from buying street fruit. But Dewey Square offers more than fresh produce and camping; it’s in a canyon surrounded by views of Boston’s tallest buildings outside of the Back Bay. Most of these buildings, like One Financial Center (pictured above) and the neighboring Federal Reserve, came out of the early 80’s and suffer from Modernism: a chronic ill of the time whose symptoms include lots of straight lines. This building got it bad, as it appears from some angles to just be a big striped box. But on a gloomy day and under the jagged-T-canopy out front, this thing is a soaring play on angles.

This is the top of the Post Office Square Courthouse taken from outside the Bank of America building. It’s a really cool building with some totally American eagles etched into its top tier. It’s a place I hope to never be forced to visit on the inside, but it’s the squares namesake for a reason – it dominates and the building is very handsome.

I got some cool Cambridge pics, and after a week of Dallas I’ll be importing pics from down south.