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The Back Bay Center
The Back Bay Center is an unexecuted building complex in Boston, Massachusetts. The project was proposed by real estate developer Roger L. Stevens on a former rail yard of the Boston and Albany Railroad. The project was designed by a consortium of architects that called itself the Boston Center Architects, composed of Pietro Belluschi, Walter Bogner, Walter Gropius, Carl Koch (architect), Carl Koch, and Hugh Stubbins. The design was completed in the summer of 1953 and was unveiled that September. Over the next two years, Stevens fought to obtain a tax concession from the city. When this was blocked by the Massachusetts Supreme Court, he backed out of the project. In 1957, Stevens sold his option on the land to the Prudential Financial, Prudential Insurance Company, who reconstituted the project as the Prudential Tower, Prudential Center from a design by Charles Luckman. History In 1953, real estate developer Roger L. Stevens obtained a three-year option on a 30-acre former railro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
