05/14/2008, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Learning Units: 3.00-Bus and Walking Tour
Training Units: 0.875-Training Area 17 (Historic Restoration)
In recent years, Boston has dedicated three new buildings for federal, state, and county courts. Visit these award-winning facilities to see how public structures have become important civic contributors and venues for contemporary court design. The 1998 John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse, the 1999 Edward W. Brooke Courthouse for Suffolk County, and the 1894/2005 John Adams Courthouse for the Commonwealth's Supreme Judicial Court will be featured.
John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse, sited on a magnificent waterfront location, was designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners with TRO Jung Brannen as associate architects. It is the headquarters for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
The Edward W. Brooke Courthouse, designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, developed the last parcel in Boston's 1960s Government Center Urban Renewal Plan and incorporates a city park in its composition.
The restored John Adams Courthouse by CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares reinstates a historic courthouse as a great civic monument with capacity and systems appropriate to contemporary judicial demands and dramatic interiors returned to their original grandeur.
Learning Objectives:
- List at least two techniques used to restore architectural features of the Adams Courthouse and summarize how new mechanical systems and technology were integrated without disturbing original architectural intent
- Examine a prototype for a large urban multilevel courthouse, which provides a comprehensible organization on a difficult site, and complements an adjacent incomplete government services building center
- Analyze the success or failure of the Moakley Courthouse as it relates to its waterfront setting
TP16a Wednesday, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., $70
Core Discipline: Design
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