Project Description
Spanning the Massachusetts Turnpike and incorporating an existing substructure and renovated service areas, the new Hynes Convention Center accommodates large conventions and multiple events in the historic Back Bay district of Boston. The facility contains 193,000 s.f. of exhibition space, generous pre-function gathering areas, 71,000 s.f. of meeting rooms, an auditorium for 5,000 people, a triple-space ballroom, a cafeteria and requisite service and circulation space. The exhibition and convention areas are structured around the monumental entry drum and moving escalators, a linear atrium, a small rotunda and long double height glazed loggia with views of the city. A stoa-like like frontal volume along Boylston Street, containing break-out and circulation spaces connects the building with the life of the city street. The 500 foot long, stone-clad façade and arcade lend coherence to a major thoroughfare and a sequence of buildings embellished by Richardson’s Trinity Church and the Public Library of McKim Mead, White and Johnson.
Project Awards
1993 AIA Honor Award for Architecture
1991 BSA Honor Award for Architecture
1991 BSA Honor Award for Interiors
1989 Harleston Parker Medal, City of Boston
1989 Interiors Magazine, Award for Institutional Design
1989 Honor Award, American Consulting Engineers Council of New England
Project Publications
Interiors, January 1990
The Boston Globe, September 1989
Architecture, May 1989
Progressive Architecture, May 1989
The New York Times, February 1989
The Boston Globe, January 1989
