Coinciding with AIA25, RECORD editors turn to local practitioners to share their recommended must-visit destinations in ...

a professor of architecture and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square Branch (700 Boylston St., Boston, through Feb. 24). The ...

The Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library renovation was awarded the 2024 Harleston Parker Medal at the annual Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) awards gala March 5. The library branch ...

Boston Public Library (BPL) was the first large free municipal library in the United States. The present Copley Square location has been home to the Library since 1895, when architect Charles Follen ...

Laura Irmscher, the Boston Public Library's chief of collections strategy ... "McKim, Charles Follen McKim, our architect, was a master in marble. We call him almost a painter in stone," says ...

Even Philip Johnson had to admit it: The lobby of his Boston Public Library building didn’t turn out quite right. The renowned architect, who designed the 1972 addition to the library’s ...

For some, the sheer utterance “Boston West End” evokes recollections of a neighborhood, just outside Boston’s city center, where thousands of predominantly working class Jewish and Black ...

The first is that the architects oriented the library's main entry facade to face south, looking out on an 18-acre public park, giving patrons a view that culminates at the horizon in downtown ...