South Boston's One StopWaterside Place was a mixed use development in South Boston over highway I-90, “The Big Dig”, CSX rail line, a road, an entry ramp, and a Silver Line bus station. I worked with three developer groups and four Boston committees including the Boston Port Authority to design a modern, yet complimentary, project with the Boston Harbor on one side and the convention center on the other. As Senior Designer, I lead a team of five in the creation including a 200 unit residential tower, 300 key hotel (A Loft), and 700k sf shopping mall with a side loaded parking garage. Concept through 50% Design Development.
Rather than approaching this mall with the typical additive language of applying pastel geometries and faux historical references onto the four sides of the large blank eifs box, I divided the long horizontal mass with vertical segments dictated by the column spacing. These segments then became a skin of sorts that “wrapped” over the parapet down over the mall service corridors and then tucked under the adjacent bridge to become the canopy over the service docks underneath and south facing car entry. The east and west elevations then became the “void spaces” of the wrappers with glazed entry lobbies at the two primary entry points to the mall (east facing the convention center and main road) and residential tower (south facing the wharf).
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