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About Hilton Garden Inn Boston
This beautifully curving and sculptural structure expertly links the verdant Olmstead Emerald Necklace with neighboring business and residential blocks at a bustling crossroads on the Brookline fringe of Boston’s medical sector, strongly anchoring its outstanding location. The structure, wrapped in tensile glass and composed of three stepped masses, is extremely sensitive to its unusual urban location.
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Hilton Garden Inn Boston’s Design Concept
A primary goal for Hilton Garden Inn Boston on a problematic triangle site was to create a building of substantial visual significance that also delivers a distinctive urban hotel experience, with each face of the structure responding to diverse contextual contexts. Three glassy volumes attain varied heights as they wrap around the location. The structure drops to the Emerald Necklace to let light into the park. At the same time, the urban street borders become taller to meet the surrounding Longwood Medical District and provide a bridge between Brookline and Boston. Fritted glass panels produce a visual gradient of textures and gentle reflections that decrease glare, undesired heat gain, and bird attacks, which are frequent problems with glass structures. © Anton Grassl
Previously, the location had a derelict gas station, which was unpleasant and dangerous for people crossing Brookline and Boston. The new hotel not only changed the program of the site, but it also changed th...
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