Höweler + Yoon Completes a Trio of Residential Buildings in Boston.

The building massing and facade articulation negotiate the difference between the high-rise scale on Stuart Street and the low-rise context of Bay Village with a facade design of a coursed block, stacked in multistory packages. ZERO ATHENS FACADE DETAIL The multistory concave fluted piers of the facade of 212 Stuart (left) were hoisted in place by crane (above). The massing of a point tower is less efficient than the typical high-rise bar building, but its small floor plate minimizes the building profile on the skyline and limits the shadows cast on its neighbors. [Extracted from the article]