Abby Conway

March 26, 2014 Two Boston firefighters were killed battling a nine-alarm blaze that ripped through a Back Bay brownstone Wednesday afternoon, fueled by howling winds. Boston Fire Deputy Chief Joseph Finn said in a press conference Wednesday night he's never seen a fire escalate as fast as the blaze that took two of his firefighters' lives. "[The wind] had a dramatic impact on the extent and how quick this fire traveled," Finn said.

June 05, 2014 "Lobby Sky" will include a 55 foot by 41 foot mural of the sky stretched over the ceiling of City Hall's lobby. (City of Boston) A portable reading space. Utility boxes that function as benches. A mini makeover for Boston’s drab City Hall lobby. Those are just a few of the winning ideas from the city’s first Public Space Invitational — a crowd-sourced design competition aimed at reimagining public spaces on a small budget.

Here at Harvard Library we’re currently working on a big website redesign project. Describing the project as a “redesign” doesn’t do it justice, actually. We’re not renovating. We’re building something completely new from the ground up. My central role on the project is to audit, update and migrate more than 6,000 pages of digital content from across two different sites. It’s a beast. (I’ve been repeating the phrase “one day at a time” a lot lately.) The gig does, however, have its perks.