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Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, Roxbury
Harleston Parker Medal for Mecanoo Project in Boston: Roxbury Innovation Center
Feb 21, 2017
Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, Roxbury
Mecanoo wins prestigious architecture prize in Boston
Design: Mecanoo, Architects
Delft – February 21, 2017 – Mecanoo architecten, led by Francine Houben, has received the Harleston Parker Medal for designing the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building. The Harleston Parker Medal is Boston?s most prestigious architecture prize. The project, on which Mecanoo collaborated with local firm Sasaki Associates, also won the People?s Choice Award.

The Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building is home to the Boston Public Schools department and includes retail and the Roxbury Innovation Center. Three historic facades have been integrated into the all-sided complex with elegantly curved corners. The different masonry techniques used in the brick facades create rhythmic reliefs which provide intricate, playful shadows. ?The building is the most important catalyst for the revitalization of Roxbury,? said Francine Houben, creative director of Mecanoo architecten from Delft, the Netherlands. ?The building is very well-used by the community and was made with a beautiful, time-honoured level of craftsmanship: Boston bricks with a Dutch touch.?
The Harleston Parker Medal, which has been awarded annually by the Boston Society of...