Boston, MA
Commercial
office, Retail
1.35 million
sq. ft. |
500 Boylston
Street |
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Located along Boylston Street on the edge of Boston's Back Bay and behind
Richardson's
Trinity Church, the 1.35 million-square-foot building respects both the street
edge and the
street life of the neighborhood with piazzas, a six-story platform base with the
20-story
towers rising above at the rear of the full-block site.
The platform is molded in a baroque manner, notched back at corners and midblock,
and
with deep piazzas carved out in front of each tower. The street edges and
piazzas are
lined with 100,000 square feet of shops and restaurants and paved in boldly
patterned
granite.
One of the towers is to be used for the offices of New England Life; the other
is to be
rented to tenants. The tower facades are organized classically with a raised
barrel vault
over the central sections that echoes both the super scale arched doorways and
the curved
piazzas below.
The office towers along with the six-story base building have a granite skin
that is a light
rose color. The towers have a central glass feature on their north and south
sides that rises
to an arch at the top of each building.
Jeff Sydness was the Design Partner at John Burgee Architects with Philip
Johnson for
this project.
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