Financial District (walk 4)

The fourth walk evidenced rolling spaces and their culminations on the horizon as they rose and fell. Spaces like Boston Common via Park St. station and the Granary Burial Ground conversely recede into contexts that are anything but flat. As we prefaced our later drawings of City Hall with these gestures, it gave way to the same kind of bevelled forms now appearing in building designs.

Facades pushed outward giving their features a malleability that kept datum with the urban wall while also lending itself to flexible uses at street level. Looking around from Government Center began to reveal commonalities in soft edges, round forms, bulging facades, and curvilinear perimetric profiles that opened themselves to the swath of open space in between. While this open space is literally cobbled by bricks and loses the wavelike feel of the Common and the Granary, the buildings all work to summon these nuances with specific language.