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Trammell Crow Co. Develops Project in Boston
Trammell Crow Co.'s first new office project in downtown Boston will be erected at 745 Atlantic Ave., with 162.000 net rentable square feet of office and retail space. The brick-and-glass structure was designed by The Stubbins Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., to respect the character and physical context of Boston's historic "Leather District."
The site, just under 20,000 sq. ft., is partially occupied by an abandoned three-story brick post office building and was initially studied for renovation with the addition of an infill building. The decision was made to construct the new building on the entire site, following geotechnical studies as to the feas feasibility of underpinning the existing postal structure. Details of corbeled brick, stone sills and lintels, and recessed windows and arches continue the architectural vocabulary, scale and texture of the surrounding older buildings. Stony Creek granite, applied in column detailing at the ground and second floor levels, repeats the facing material of South Station. Interior finishes include marble and wood.
Street trees, flower beds, brick and stone paving, and granite seating embellish the sidewalks along the three streetwalls.
"We share Trammell Crow Company's commitment to designing the building comfortably within the fabric of the Leather District as if it were always there, while giving it a strong identity and distinctive image of its own," said W. Easley Hamner, AIA, of Stubbins Associates and principal in charge of the project."
Building Construction Industry
Advisory Committee Promotes Research
Making sure that research done at Florida's institutions of higher learning is relevant to the "real world" of building construction is the mission of the Building Construction Industry Advisory Committee (see "Letters to the Editor").
The forming fathers wanted to closely merge the needs of the building construction industry with work in research and education being conducted at those institutions and in 1980 the BCIAC was born.
"It wasn't doing anybody any good if university faculty and graduate students were doing projects that answered questions no one in the industry was asking," explained Bill Conway, current chairman of the BCIAC. "And yet there were so many questions from builders and contractors begging for research."
Conway, as a member of the Florida legislature, was in the position to do something to solve the dilemma he perceived. He introduced a bill creating the BCIAC, and watched over his bill until it was passed.
Today the purpose of the Building Construction Industry Advisory Committee is still to ensure the relevancy of research and educational programs to the real world. Every person in the building construction industry who either applies or renews his certification and registration has a stake in that