[MassHistPres] 2011 Preservation Achievement Awards Announced!

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I am disappointed to learn that The Boston Preservation Alliance has given a Preservation Achievement Award for "New Construction in Harmony with Boston's Built Environment" to The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The alterations made to the Fenway entrance by British architect Sir Norman Foster disrespect Boston architect Guy Lowell's original and splendid Ionic colonnade by adding two handicapped access ramps with solid parapets which cut diagonally across the facade and hide the bases and lower parts of many of the columns. This unsettles the entire Fenway elevation and reduces it to a mere backdrop for the celebrity architect's  intervention. 

Samuel R. Blair, AIA 


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From: "Christine Piontek" <cpiontek at bostonpreservation.org> 
To: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu 
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 4:25:47 PM 
Subject: [MassHistPres] 2011 Preservation Achievement Awards Announced! 




The Boston Preservation Alliance is pleased to announce the 2011 Preservation Achievement Awards , honoring outstanding achievements in historic preservation and compatible new construction in Boston. 
  

Integration of Preservation and New Construction   

Atlantic Wharf 

Modern Theatre 

  

Maintenance of a Historic Neighborhood Landmark 

Jamaica Plain Civil War Monument 

  

Neighborhood Preservation 

  90 Smith Street - Basilica Court 

  

New Construction in Harmony with Boston's Built Environment 

  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

  

New Parkland Added to Boston's Open Space 

Fan Pier Public Green 

  

Rehabilitation by a Public Agency 

Brewer Fountain 

  

Rehabilitation of an Historic Industrial Space 

B oston Renaissance Charter Public School 

Metropolitan Waterworks Museum 

The Watermill Lofts - The Lofts at Lower Mills 

  

Rehabilitation/Restoration of a Religious Property 

Tiffany Stained Glass Window Restoration at 
Theodore Parker Church 

  

Rehabilitation/Restoration Preserving Boston's Heritage 

Georges Island Visitor Center 

  

  

To view more about the Alliance and this year's award recipients, please visit: www.bostonpreservation.org/programs/preservation-achievement-awards.html 

  

For further information, contact Christine Piontek at 617.367.2458 or cpiontek at bostonpreservation.org. 

  

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