| TP33 Boston Residential: Contemporary Design and Density in Boston HSW 05/14/2008, 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM Learning Units: 3.00-Bus and Walking Tour Training Units: 1.00-Training Area 17 (Planning) Join us on a tour of three of Boston's newest residential developments: InterContinental Boston Hotel and Residences on Fort Point Channel, Emerson Place in the West End, and Trilogy, just steps from Fenway Park. Architects from Elkus/Manfredi Architects will take us first to InterContinental's new flagship hotel and condominium complex on a premiere site on Boston's Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway and the Fort Point Channel. Its 20-story sculpted glass towers rise above the harbor, reflecting sky and sea on the waterfront side, and the towers of Boston's Financial District along the new Greenway. We then travel to Emerson Place/Charles River Park in the West End to visit its newest addition, five new apartment buildings that strengthen and enhance the residential character of this Boston neighborhood. Learn about the planning process that supported increased density while enhancing design and public space in a location that is just footsteps away from the Esplanade and the Charles River, Massachusetts General Hospital, and North Station. Our last stop will be Trilogy, a residential development set on a triangular site in the Fenway, at the nexus of three subdistricts in a major urban neighborhood. We will discover how this new 650,000-square-foot, mixed-use complex establishes a paradigm and is a catalyst for the redevelopment of the core of an entire precinct. Responding to new zoning initiatives, it replaces an environment of surface parking lots, wide roadways, and stand-alone fast-food restaurants with a reconnected neighborhood identity featuring dense, 24/7 residential life and vibrant, human-scale public spaces. It also demonstrates a unique partnership between a noted university and a private developer to develop urban housing. Learning Objectives:
Core Discipline: Design |