Copley Square is an area with a variety of styles and many great historic buildings such as the Boston Public Library, the Berkley Building and Trinity Church. The new John Hancock Tower brought this great modern feeling into this place and the green spaces make this area harmonious.
More specifically analyzing the space between John Hancock Tower and Trinity Church this contrast between old and new is quite evident. As you can see in the photographs and the sketches, these two buildings complement each other in their surroundings and is very hard to get a picture of one of them without the other, unless you are only capturing a detail or just a portion of the building.
Architecturally they are very different. Trinity Church designed by Henry Richardson in the French Romanesque style is very geometric in plan and quite complex in detail and texture. On the other hand, across from St. James Avenue, the John Hancock Tower presents a very simple geometric form in plan and its exterior too. The facade completely covered by many rectangular glasses create this simple and consistent elevations very different from Trinity Church.
Although very different in size and shape, these two buildings come together in their extended green spaces. The open green spaces that both buildings have on the side of Clarendon Street work together in creating this big open green space at the intersection.
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The photo of the two buildings facing each other and the photo of the details at Trinity Church are great
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