When completed, this 61-story tower, on an important site between Christian Science Plaza and the Prudential Center in Boston’s Back Bay, will be the city’s tallest residential building. A 211-room hotel will occupy the tower’s lower eighteen floors, with 188 luxury condominiums on thirty-six floors above.
Shaped as a soft triangle in plan and sheathed in low-reflectance high-performance insulating glass, the building rises from a granite-and-glass podium containing the condominium lobby and the public rooms of the hotel. Glass-screened incisions in the tower’s surface animate the building volume while accommodating operable windows on the condominium floors, whose upper levels feature balconies.
The project is part of a master plan that includes 30 Dalton, a 27-story residential building, and a 5,000-square-foot park framed by the two towers.
Status: Under Construction
Location: Boston, MA, US
Firm Role: Architect
Additional Credits: Cambridge Seven Associates, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
