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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…

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…

Everything about Copley Place screams upscale. From the sign out in front of the mall in the mini-plaza to the advertisements everywhere for the mall itself, as one of many Simon malls, to the fancy salmon-colored stone stairs to the shiny gold…

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…

My sketches of the Prudential Center Mall and Newbury Street were stills of sections of each area. For the Prudential Center Mall, I chose to sketch a small section of the large and elaborate mall. The section I chose felt to me like the most…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…