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This assignment forced me to think critically about the decisions I was making. Unlike our first assignment, where we were tasked with simply sketching a space from memory, this assignment required considerable observation and attention to detail.…

I began my observatory journey at the Galleries at Copley place at Dartmouth and Stuart Streets with my eyes and ears open. I noticed the stores within Copley Plan to be very high end and accordingly protected with security guards watching for…

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…

First, the indoor shopping malls, Prudential and Copley Place: these malls, while indoors, attempt to achieve a sense of the outside. In the Prudential, most of the ceilings are made of glass, and in Copley, in the main courtyard there is a water…

In Copley, the glass and brick create a distinct industrial or commercial atmosphere. The large glass panes that let you look inside the building. It helps that “Neiman Marcus” also boasts a giant sign indicating that the department store lies…

My journey began, as prescribed, at the entrance of Copley Place Mall on the corner of Dartmouth and Stuart streets. I found the two horse statues at the entrance to the Copley Place to be an interesting symbol. Almost as if they were regal gate…

To sketch Copley Place/Prudential Center Malls and Newbury St., I first stopped by Newbury St. since it was earlier in the morning and the shops at the mall were not open yet. At Newbury St., it was extremely easy to navigate to, just one block away…

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…

Copley, Prudential Center, and Newbury Street are all popular commercial spaces in close proximity. However, by virtue of some being an indoors shopping space and the other being an outdoor shopping space, the problems each commercial space have to…

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.…