OMA unveiled a rendering of their design for a mixed-use office tower along Boston's 88 Seaport Boulevard, marking the firm's first commission in the city. With OMA Partner Shohei Shigematsu as design lead, the “sliced” building comprises 18 floors with almost 425,000 square-feet of office space, about 60,000 sq.ft. of retail on the first two floors, and 5,000 sq.ft. for civic/cultural functions. The exterior features a series of cascading terraces that slope down toward Fan Pier Green and the Seaport waterfront.
“Our design for 88 Seaport slices the building into two volumes, creating distinct responses for each urban scale of old and new, while also accommodating diverse office typologies for diverse industries with demands for traditional and alternative floorplates,” Shigematsu said in a statement. “The slice also generates an opportunity to draw in the district’s public domains, linking the waterfront and Fan Pier Green with a continuous landscape.”
As part of WS Development's larger masterplan, the building is currently scheduled to begin construction next year and will be completed in 2020.
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I don't like this moment we are in.. the boring corporate building with an architect branded "twist." Who started it? DS+R? It's kind of like when a respected musician does a Kit Kat commercial. You know OMA can do better than this...
I think it was Weiss Manfredi's Diana Center / Novartis Office Building...
Better than nothing
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