Boston Skylines, Skyscrapers & Modern Building Photos

Boston enjoys many interesting modern highrise buildings though they are scattered in such a way that there is no signature vista from which they form a coherent whole.

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View of downtown Boston & Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge from Bunker Hill.

View of USS Constitution & north-end Boston from Bunker Hill.

Boston skyline with Prudential, lace-domed 111 Huntington Avenue & John Hancock Towers seen across Boston Bay.

Prudential Tower (1964) (Boylston Street at Huntington Ave.) 52 floors behind 111 Huntington Avenue. Architect: Luckman Partnership, Hoyle, Doran & Berry Architects.

111 Huntington Avenue (2002) 36 floors in front of Prudential Tower.
Architect: Childs Bertman Tseckares.

Skyline with John Hancock Tower & John Hancock Building (1947) 26 floors with spire by Cram & Ferguson & arched 25 floor 500 Boylston St. between.

Skyline with white One Financial Center (1983) 46 floors behind residences on Boston Bay. Architect: Jung / Brannen Assoc., Pietro Belluschi.

Skyline with One Financial Center (1983), white ladder-like Federal Reserve Bank Building (1976).

Skyline with three brown buildings of International Place (1987-92) (46, 27, 19 floors). Architect: Johnson/Burgee Architects.

Power plant.

Trinity Church & John Hancock Tower.

Gabel of Trinity Church.

John Hancock Tower (1976) 60 floors.
Architect: I.M. Pei & Partners.

Copley Square with Trinity Church, John Hancock Tower, & Fairmont Copley Plaza (1912).

Boston skyline heading into Big Dig tunnel.

Boston skyline from southern freeway approach.

Blue stepped One Lincoln Street (2003) 36 floors to left of white One Financial Center. Architect: Jung / Brannen Assoc.

The Metropolitan Boston (2004) (Nassau Street) 23 floors. Architect: The Architectural Team.

One Boston Place (1970) (Court Street) 41 floors behind King's Chapel.
Architect: Pietro Belluschi, Emery Roth & Sons.

One Devonshire Place (1983) 42 floors & heritage buildings along Washington Street.
Architect: Steffian Bradley Architects.

60 State Street (1977) 38 floors plus Custom House Tower.
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

75 State Street (1988) 31 floors.
Architect: Graham Gund Architects + Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Edward W. Brooke Courthouse (1999).
Architect: Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects.

Bowdoin Square & Edward W. Brooke Courthouse.

Modern building beside Edward W. Brooke Courthouse.


All photos on this page are originals by & copyrighted by Jim Steinhart.
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