Excerpt from Urban Design Assessment: Lancaster Street Property
In an age where developers and architects routinely build environments in many regions across the nation and around the world according to interchangeable and expedient formulas, the qualities of a location that make it unique and constitute its identity are not well understood, or are overlooked altogether. The results are environments, both urban and suburban, that look and operate increasingly the same despite differing climatic, cultural, historical, formal and economic regional conditions. It is with the conviction that this phenomenon should be opposed in order to maintain the identity of places, whether of a region, a city, or a district, that this report was commissioned.
The subject of this report is an 18,000 square foot property controlled by the Bulfinch Development Corporation, in Boston's Bulfinch Triangle, which is currently under consideration for designation as an historic district. In an effort to better understand the Bulfinch Triangle, an architecture and urban design firm with considerable experience working in historic districts, Lane, Frenchman and Associates, was asked by the owners to analyze the district and identify the qualities of form and structure which give it its identity. From this analysis criteria were formulated to guide and inform the design of a new building to be appropirate for its context and to achieve a high degree of architectural quality.
To achieve the goals of the owners regarding contextural compatibility requires a re-ordering of the priorities and governing values of mainstream, present-day development.
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