Designed at Hacin + Associates in collaboration with David Hacin, Scott Thomson, and Nicole Fichera
A flagship for Mayor Thomas M. Menino's vision for the waterfront Innovation District, the Boston Innovation Center will be the first freestanding city-sponsored innovation center of its kind in the country. The building will be a highly visible symbol of a city that is welcoming innovation.
The Boston Innovation Center will be the first project built for Boston Global Investors’ 23-acre waterfront development, Seaport Square. It will serve as an anchor in this emerging district, a natural gathering place adjacent to an MBTA Silver Line station, a Hubway bike-sharing location, and parking.
Built on the site of the former waterfront railyards, the building’s architecture is inspired in both material and form by the industrial and nautical architecture that used to characterize this area. The building has two basic parts: a long low bar that references the train cars that used to fill the railyards, and an angular shell that picks up on the materials and shapes of the boats and warehouses of the shipping industry.
The landscape design, by Reed Hilderbrand, will incorporate birch trees at the perimeter to help insulate the building from traffic and parking areas, while public plazas will maintain clear connections to the adjacent parks, one of which is already complete. A pathway directly adjacent to the Innovation Center will connect the MBTA stop on Seaport Boulevard to the Institute of Contemporary Art on Northern Ave
A flagship for Mayor Thomas M. Menino's vision for the waterfront Innovation District, the Boston Innovation Center will be the first freestanding city-sponsored innovation center of its kind in the country. The building will be a highly visible symbol of a city that is welcoming innovation.
The Boston Innovation Center will be the first project built for Boston Global Investors’ 23-acre waterfront development, Seaport Square. It will serve as an anchor in this emerging district, a natural gathering place adjacent to an MBTA Silver Line station, a Hubway bike-sharing location, and parking.
Built on the site of the former waterfront railyards, the building’s architecture is inspired in both material and form by the industrial and nautical architecture that used to characterize this area. The building has two basic parts: a long low bar that references the train cars that used to fill the railyards, and an angular shell that picks up on the materials and shapes of the boats and warehouses of the shipping industry.
The landscape design, by Reed Hilderbrand, will incorporate birch trees at the perimeter to help insulate the building from traffic and parking areas, while public plazas will maintain clear connections to the adjacent parks, one of which is already complete. A pathway directly adjacent to the Innovation Center will connect the MBTA stop on Seaport Boulevard to the Institute of Contemporary Art on Northern Ave
