"The building is unsettling up close at its base, but from afar it is icily magnificent, the surfaces changing as the day changes, each side rendered in the color of the sky it faces. The drama of the reflecting surface is heightened by the parallelogram shape of the prism, which provides unexpectedly differing reflections on adjoining surfaces. On the short ends a sharp incision in the walls, glazed on one side, picks up yet another shaft of reflection, often sharply contrasting: gold when the rest is gray, dark when the rest is gleaming bright. The building adds to the skyline not so much an object as a spectacle of changing light, an intensified comment on the qualities of the sky itself."— Donlyn Lyndon. The City Observed: Boston. New York: Vintage Books, 1982. p195.

"This 60-story office building, sheathed in reflective glass, has been roundly praised for fitting 2 million square feet of space into a small site while consorting agreeably with landmarks on a historic square. But when its glass panes—buffeted by high winds—started breaking by the dozens, lawsuits proliferated and a drastic program of reglazing had to be initiated."

— from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p94.

Details

Between St. James Place and Stuart Street, west of Clarendon Street.

60 stories tall, covered almost entirely with reflective glazing.