This building covers an entire block in the Boston financial district and becomes the visual anchor of five streets. The tower, which is set back from the five-story base that retains the elevations of four buildings of the 1870's era, rises 300 feet to culminate in a square top with a lantern element at each corner. New arched entrances on South and Lincoln Streets open into a through-block galleria that enhances pedestrian circulation from South Station to the commercial district, and a third arched entrance on Summer Street services the office lobby. Various facades of the tower address the context; of these, an eighty-foot diameter apsoidal form facing South Station and the Federal Reserve Bank tower is the most striking. The granite and precast facade of the tower, decorated with bay windows, cornices, and moldings, reflects the design elements of surrounding historical buildings.

Affiliation: Kohn Pederson Fox, Arthur May, Design Partner