Articles Tagged with ''Boston''

The New England Aquarium is a remarkable, beautiful place to spend an afternoon.

For an art-lover, the best thing about Boston is just how much you can see in a short amount of time—without needing a car or public transit.

No. 14 Newbury Street is another one of those buildings that contains a diverse concentration of galleries.

An open-plan, single-room branch library lends books and serves as a place for a young and diverse community to come together.

A renovation and expansion of a midcentury academic tower restores a master's legacy. Preservation and Modernism might seem to have contradictory goals, but not for architects Bruner/Cott. The Cambridge, Massachusetts'based firm is renovating and restoring Boston University's Law Tower and has just completed a 93,000-square-foot addition at its base.

In recent years the design of hospitals that emulate hotels has generated a warming trend in this often forbiddingly cold, institutional building type.

The first challenge in designing the Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation for Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital began with the location.

Working out of an office in Boston's financial district — inaccessible to the public and incapable of holding large public functions — the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) wanted a change of scene.

Once you get past the eye-popping turquoise green prepatinated copper of Renzo Piano's new 70,000-square-foot addition to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, you discover that the new wing echoes the older museum in its proportions, sleek lines, and taut planes.