Study in Contrasts

摘要

for A building that Henry Cobb, FAIA, says is the closest he's come in his long career to poetry, the John Hancock Tower in Boston's Copley Square rose amid a rather inelegant and loud public squabble. For starters, local residents and architects fiercely opposed the idea of situating a 62-story skyscraper directly adjacent to H.H. Richardson's 1877 Trinity Church, a National Historic Landmark. Relegating that treasured icon to the shadow of a modern office building? Scandalous.