James R. Thompson Center
This government building is among the most controversial of Chicago’s modern buildings. Completed in 1985 by Helmut Jahn, the 17-story round glass structure has been ridiculed for looking like a crash-landed spaceship.
Museum of Fine Arts
Since 1909, the Museum of Fine Arts has been housed in a Greek-style building designed by architect Guy Lowell. Thanks to the financial power of Bostonians with a penchant for art, an excellent collection has been created which, not just because of the exhibits by outstanding American artists, is considered to be among the world’s [...]
Louisburg Square, top residential addresses in Boston
Louisburg Square in the middle of Beacon Hill is still among the top residential addresses in Boston. Elegant, red brick buildings surround a narrow park between Pinckney Street and Mt. Vernon Street. The rowhouses were built around 1840.
Boston personalities such as the publisher of Atlantic Monthly, William Dean Howells, or the author of Little Women, [...]
Back Bay
Where, today, Boston is at its most European, foul-smelling mud flats still existed 150 years ago and numerous mills were driven by tidal currents at the dams along the Charles River. When the population boomed during the 19th century, Boston’s municipal administration decided to fill in the eyesore with earth. The newly acquired land enlarged [...]
