John Hancock Tower Receives AIA Twenty-Five Year Award
The John Hancock Tower in Boston, designed by I.M. Pei & Partners and one of the favourite buildings at World Man About Town, has been selected to receive the 2011 Twenty-Five Year Award by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for a building that endured quality in design and function.
The tower has demonstrated excellence in function, in the distinguished execution of its original program, and in the creative aspects of its statement by today?s standards. The 2011 Twenty-five Year Award will be presented at the AIA National Convention in New Orleans.
Thirty-five years after its dedication, the lean, rhomboid reflective glass tower continues to represent the classic architectural notion of aesthetic balance. Built on a small site adjacent to some of Boston?s greatest architectural assets, the tower had to be big enough to accommodate the owner?s requirements, yet absolutely mindful of its delicate and historic surroundings.
Located in Boston?s historic Copley Square, the 60-story, 790-foot reflective glass Hancock Tower continues to serve as an office building and remains the tallest building in New England. ?Boston Globe? architecture critic Robert Campbell said the tower is ?one of the greatest office towers of the second half of the 20th century.? It received an AIA National Honor Award in 1977 and in 1994 a ?Boston Globe? poll of architects and historians rated it as the third best work of architecture in Boston history, behind only Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library, its two closest neighbours.
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