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Residential ›
Multi Unit Housing
Commercial › Office Retail
Hospitality + Sport › Hotel Restaurant Bar/Nightclub
Cultural › Cultural Center Religious
Educational › Elementary School
Government + Health › Community Center
Landscape + Planning › Public Park
Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway Parking Bus
Commercial › Office Retail
Hospitality + Sport › Hotel Restaurant Bar/Nightclub
Cultural › Cultural Center Religious
Educational › Elementary School
Government + Health › Community Center
Landscape + Planning › Public Park
Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway Parking Bus
2003 AIA/BSA Density: Myth & Reality Competition entry called New Herald Square was a winning entry. With the name coming from the merging of two parallel streets along the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) including Herald Street, the scheme covers the 5.9 acres above the Massachusetts Turnpike between Chinatown and the South End in downtown Boston by creating a new city boulevard above the highway that replaces Herald Street and Frontage Road, then uses these existing streets as land fordevelopment. It also connects the MBTA Orange and Silver lines in anew transit hub underneath the square that offers the possibility of afuture Orange Line extension to South Boston's Seaport Square (and the Convention Center there).It called for 1,800,000 square feet of office, and 340,000 of retail, inaddition to 1,612 housing units, allowing the site development costs– inevitably high in an air-rights situation – to be spread out over alarge amount of building area. The variety of densities and buildingforms within the site allows for incremental development of the projectand acknowledges the range of scale, size and street orientation thatexists in the adjacent urban areas.The development and extension of the new urban park, New HeraldSquare, from the center of the site northward could knit the developmentwith the adjoining urban neighborhood in a way that some of the moreinsular approaches reviewed by the jury were unable to achieve.This project, as spoken by the judges, “provides an ingenious andappropriate demonstration of the use of density not only to reconnecturban form, but to define and create new city spaces.”
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