The Exchange at 100 Federal Street is a living room for Boston’s Financial District. An informal place for meeting, collaborating, and sharing, the space captivates professionals, tourists, and locals alike with its reinvigorated public realm embedded in the heart of the city.
The Exchange revitalizes an underperforming, wind-swept plaza into a luminous space that instills a feeling of working outside - without one’s papers blowing away. Elongated, wooden community tables become social condensers for writing e-mails or informal meetings. The sensation of outdoor living is reinforced by material and furniture palettes which draw the exterior environment inside, establishing a unified landscape and building design connecting material and form.
The prismatic form of the building connects with the angular geometry of the tower from which it unfolds. Faces of polished stone facet into polished glass, reflecting the surrounding city, park, and sky in unexpected and changing ways. As the origami-like envelope folds to adapt to the triangular site, the exposed steel structural grid becomes increasingly dynamic as its structural geometry makes manifest the generative folding operations.
Digital art, major sporting events, and live news are displayed on a monumentally scaled, 640 square foot screen—engaging the totality of the interior as well as passing pedestrians. The flexible, movable furniture enables the space to accommodate a wide variety of community events, including Boston Fashion Week, Special Olympics, professional conferences, art festivals, and black-tie galas. A dynamic, accessible, and inclusive urban space, it has become the glowing heart of Boston’s financial district.
All the information about how to enter the 2020 WAN Awards is here.
We are very happy to offer support so please don’t hesitate to email Georgia, WAN Awards Event Coordinator with any questions at Georgia.Baily@haymarket.com.
Last year more than 40 countries took part in the WAN Awards with strong showings from Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. And we saw some truly outstanding projects, take a look at the winners from last year here.