Sketch 2
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Sketch 2
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Sarah Anderson
Standing in the glass walkway between Copley Place and the Prudential Center, I felt like I was encased in a cage of commercialism. Cases containing sample products line the path, signs point to endless, nearly indistinguishable shopping options, and…
Helen Bae
Copley Place and Prudential Center are different in many ways, both commercially – Copley is more upscale on average – and aesthetically. Even within Prudential, there were differences: Boylston Arcade was predominantly white in appearance due to the…
Melissa Balding
My first sketch shows me traveling through the Boylston Arcade. I worked backwards from the direct instructions as I was coming from the Newbury Street direction. I entered in the Boylston Street entrance and moved towards the Center Court and then…
Ignacio Bayardo
One of the most interesting aspects that I observed when I visited Copley place, prudential center and Newbury Street is the spectrum of the buildings interaction with the outside world. Newbury Street was the center with the most interaction with…
Peter Bearse
In these sketches, I compared the area of Newbury Street with the area of Copley Square and the Prudential Center, focusing on the usage of space and materials in each location and how those particular usages affected each environment differently.…
Chad Benoit
For these sketches, I emphasized the changes in elevation in the two different shopping areas. I thought it was interesting how while one might imagine an indoor mall to have shopping on multiple levels, the more traditional shopping on Newbury…
Owen Borges
I visited Newbury Street before I visited the malls and was immediately intrigued by its spatial feel. It feels very wide and light in comparison to most streets so I attempted to do a sketch that would capture that essence in some way. I decided…
Elena Breer
My map of Newbury Street is actually a combination of multiple segments of Newbury: the image of the street and walkways depict the segment between Gloucester and Dartmouth, where the storefronts, which are former residential spaces turned…
Hannah Byrne
The malls and Newbury Street perform similar functions in notably different ways. While the malls are very clearly highly designed and decorated (with patterns on the walls, floors and ceilings), Newbury Street has rustic and authentic…
Jordan Canedy
As spaces designed to promote commercial activities, the Prudential Center/Copley Place and Newbury Street serve an identical, core purpose to this area of downtown Boston. However, upon examination and observation of the two spaces, it became clear…