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My photo tour of Columbia Point, cross posted on another forum:

It starts here with the Umass Plaza

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And the 19th century sewage pump house

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New housing. Phase I of "The Peninsula."

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A sampling of the Harbor Walk

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And the downtown skyline behind a hill

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I walked up behind the JFK Library

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Because of the odd geometry it is fun to take shots from many angles

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The fortress-like Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum

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Stonehenge?

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Another original sewage building

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There were these artificial foxes all around Umass today. I saw a maintenance truck driving around a soccer field picking them up. A prank of sorts or "art"?

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"Stinger"

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Surface lot

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The new, much anticipated front door to Umass Boston--the Campus Center

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With its random windows

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And the pyramids

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The interior is actually flooded with light, despite my dark pictures

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The rear was designed to blend with other campus buildings

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And the rest:

"The Hero at Evening"

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This part of the plaza isn't so bad, especially when the trees are green and the weather is nice enough to bring people outside. Otherwise people travel between buildings in the catwalks

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Lockers are useful for a commuter school, but it just makes me feel like I am back in high school

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Views from the library are an incentive to get me into the building to study

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And it ends with Red Square, Dorchester

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Does anyone actually commute via the red line to UMB? I remember that the station is really far from the actual school and given how lazy most are...

I think this came up before. There is a fast, frequent, free and reliable shuttle bus between the station and the campus. It seems like the driving to public transit ratio is 50:50.

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Does anyone actually commute via the red line to UMB? I remember that the station is really far from the actual school and given how lazy most are...

Its been a while but when i was at UMB in 97-98 I was the typical commuter student, took the orange line to the red line got off at JFK/UMASS and waited for the shuttle bus... you can walk but it is a hike and well in the winter no fun, if its a nice day then MAYBE... but as far as parking back then it was nearly impossible to get a space in the under-ground garage nevermind the open lot which is now the new student center... It was just a safer bet to take the T and the shuttle in to the school...

I am not sure how much of an urban legend this is but when I was at UMB you could not walk anywhere near the library from the outside. inorder to get to the library you had to come into the main building and up the stairs to the walkway... Another student told me it was because the school was built on the landfill, and when they built the library it was raised up on stilts, the designers did not accomidate for the weight of the books and every year the buiding settled into the landfill causing bricks to fall... while yes this seems far fetched but I was a gullible 17 yr old...

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