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The Prudential Center: Spatial Consumerism

I must admit that I was struck by how similar everything was in the Prudential Center/Copley Place. I understand that shopping malls are meant to be a cohesive conglomerate of boutiques, but, when…

I was interested both in how this space in the mall complex seemed to function as a segue between the two malls and in how it delineated public vs. non-public spaces. In regards to the first point, I noticed that the two malls had very different…

For my first drawing of the Copley Mall area, I was interested in the boundaries of public and retail space. The main feature that has stood out to me from my trip to that area has been the bridges connecting different buildings. I thought it was…

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…

After understanding that the objective is to attempt to make an argument about the space of study, I really focused on elements regarding the way people behave and interact in these locations. For Copley Place I immediately noticed that it is low…

At all three of these commercial spaces, you can see people walking, talking, sipping drinks, sitting on benches, and browsing their phones. The Copley Place and Prudential Center malls, being indoors, both produce a feeling of “entering” as you step…

We entered the mall through the Dartmouth and Stuart Street entrance, where there is a set of revolving doors. (Every outside entrance/exit to the mall had a set of revolving doors, as did one side of each pedestrian sky bridge. I suppose this is to…

In my sketches, I sought to portray and accentuate the contrasts between Copley Place, the Prudential Center, and Newbury Street in terms of their roles as public spaces. I chose to create a schematic map of Copley Place to emphasize its…

Visiting Copley Place/Prudential Center and Newbury street consecutively, one is struck by differential effects resulting from the use of outdoor/indoor elements in each: Copley Place/Prudential Center makes use of immense natural light, shining in…

In both Newbury Street and the Prudential Center, the store (commercial space) and the space outside of it are mediated by a storefront. The open, protruding nature of the storefront expose the commercial space to the passersby and display the…