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This assignment offers the chance to view two separate, but close, locations. They are both very unique from one another. While most may get lost in the Prudential/Copley shopping district, it would be very difficult to lose your way while traveling…

The two shopping areas are vastly different—the first, obvious difference is that Copley Place and the Prudential Center are indoor shopping malls, and Newbury Street is an outdoor street lined with individual shops. That being said, the traffic…

Copley/Prudential

As I ascend flight upon flight of escalators up to Copley Place, I feel myself being transported to another world—to a quiet and glamorous realm, safely perched several floors above the hustle and bustle of the streets below.…

When taking the elevator up from the ground floor to the main entrance of the Prudential center Shopping mall, you begin in a glass ceiling hallway that “begins” your journey throughout the mall.

While traveling through the mall, the experience…

Newbury street offers a very unique shopping experience that is at once very similar to that of a shopping mall, but also carries with it great discrepancies. The first aspect of Newbury street that is mall-like is the continuous stream of…

For the purpose of this assignment, I took on the perspective of Copley Place and Newbury Street’s target audience: a young, professional woman who likes fashion. The vast majority of shops in Copley Place are luxury goods, just enough above a…

In my sketches of Newbury St and Copley Place and the Prudential Center Malls, I focused on two different themes that I noticed while walking through each. What immediately struck me in Copley Place and the Prudential Center Malls was a feeling of…

When tasked with creating a sketch of Harvard University from the athletic fields to the law school, I made the assignment into a personal challenge to exhibit how accurate and expansive my knowledge of Harvard was. In reality, that challenge was not…

The theme that I focused on in my sketches and observations was the notion of inside/outside. I found that the two spaces each conveyed a sense of an interior and exterior, blurring the lines between what is actually outside or inside throughout the…

To me, a juxtaposition of Boston’s Newbury Street and Prudential Center ties in very neatly with the comparisons we’ve been drawing between urban and suburban landscapes. Obviously both sites exist within an urban environment. But the slight…