Archinect - News 2024-11-16T02:41:56-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/53009798/the-prudential-center-an-architectural-eyesore-that-saved-downtown-boston The Prudential Center: An Architectural Eyesore That Saved Downtown Boston Archinect 2012-07-05T16:32:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/67/672868c46e6b2d760a88c3a2c1425d66?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The boxy Prudential Center, built in the 1960s, has never been a darling of architecture critics. But Yale University architectural historian Elihu Rubin says the massive redevelopment project represents a key historical moment when &mdash; at the height of white flight and automobile sprawl &mdash; a mega-corporation made an unlikely investment in the future of cities.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>