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888 Boylston Street
Boston, MA
500,000 SF
19-story tower
Office, retail
A new gateway to the Center from Boylston Street, 888 Boylston makes a visual transition between the scale and character of the Prudential Center and the 19th- and early 20th-century buildings along commercial Boylston Street located in the Back Bay neighborhood. The building and its plaza are linked to the Center, while its forward-looking form creates a distinctly urban address.
Above a two-story retail base that lies parallel to Boylston Street, the 17-story building presents a sweeping convex glass curtain wall that reveals the connection between its vertical grid of structural columns and horizontal floor plates. The bold architectural form reinforces existing circulation patterns of the center and strengthens an emerging street wall. A cantilevered metal cornice finishes the façade.
Urbanistically, the building’s dramatic transparent form was conceived to distinguish it from the heavy masonry of the adjacent Hynes Convention Center and from the rich masonry of the new CBT-design Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The east, south, and west façades of the tower are sheathed in a semi-opaque, reflective glass. Mullions of varying depths give the building’s flat, glazed surfaces an interesting visual texture. From the offices inside, the glass wall provides expansive views of the nearby cityscape. The double-height lobby, provides office tenants access to a central elevator bank that services the office floors with connections to the Prudential Center’s retail lobby and the garage.
The pedestrian plaza designed with the Halvorson Design Partnership creates a forecourt to the building and an urban oasis in a busy commercial district that can be enjoyed by office workers, neighbors, shoppers, and conventioneers.
500,000 SF
19-story tower
Office, retail
A new gateway to the Center from Boylston Street, 888 Boylston makes a visual transition between the scale and character of the Prudential Center and the 19th- and early 20th-century buildings along commercial Boylston Street located in the Back Bay neighborhood. The building and its plaza are linked to the Center, while its forward-looking form creates a distinctly urban address.
Above a two-story retail base that lies parallel to Boylston Street, the 17-story building presents a sweeping convex glass curtain wall that reveals the connection between its vertical grid of structural columns and horizontal floor plates. The bold architectural form reinforces existing circulation patterns of the center and strengthens an emerging street wall. A cantilevered metal cornice finishes the façade.
Urbanistically, the building’s dramatic transparent form was conceived to distinguish it from the heavy masonry of the adjacent Hynes Convention Center and from the rich masonry of the new CBT-design Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The east, south, and west façades of the tower are sheathed in a semi-opaque, reflective glass. Mullions of varying depths give the building’s flat, glazed surfaces an interesting visual texture. From the offices inside, the glass wall provides expansive views of the nearby cityscape. The double-height lobby, provides office tenants access to a central elevator bank that services the office floors with connections to the Prudential Center’s retail lobby and the garage.
The pedestrian plaza designed with the Halvorson Design Partnership creates a forecourt to the building and an urban oasis in a busy commercial district that can be enjoyed by office workers, neighbors, shoppers, and conventioneers.