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2 Park Plaza
Office Building
Boston, MA
This project required the design of an addition on
top of an existing historical building in downtown Boston. The
addition filled in a jagged one and two story gap in the roof line
of the building. DiMarinisi & Wolfe's design, which was praised
by the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Boston Society
of Architects as an outstanding example of how to do historically
sensitive additions, provided new space behind a facade which
neatly and seemingly extends the building fabric upward. A set
back at the sixth floor level provides a balcony for one tenant and visually
notes the fact that the original building is made up of three adjacent
older structures. From an urban design point of view, the new addition
was built to meet the corner roof line of the neighboring
Transportation Building, providing a stronger street front line
than previously existed.
A special feature of the design was the reproduction
in fiberglass of an old, very badly deteriorated sheet metal
cornice. The replaced cornice marks subtly the joint between new
and old. |
