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Both Copley Mall and Newbury Street may be large commercial shopping centers open to the public, but that is where their similarities end. Copley Mall is a mazelike network of hallways and escalators. For the most part, it is dark and close; visitors…

Copley Place and the Prudential Center were most similar in their spatial layouts, and Newbury Street tries to copy that, however only Copley Place features a space for reflection and integrates nature.

Both Copley and the Prudential Center…

After visiting both the Prudential Center and Newbury Street, a strong irony in their respective designs stood out to me, and it manifested in particular in degrees of naturalness and of symmetry/uniformity in the designs. The irony was that 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…