One Dalton Building

The One Dalton Building is a Contemporary skyscraper designed in 2013 by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Henry Cobb as lead architect, in association with CambridgeSeven, and built between 2015 and 2019, for a reported $700 million dollars, in Boston, MA.

One Dalton Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. It is common for companies to want to attach their names to iconic buildings when they move in, or for the general public to come up with nicknames, and this one is no exception. The One Dalton Building is also known, or has been known as, Four Seasons Hotel, Four Seasons Private Residences, or One Dalton Street.

Its precise street address is 1 Dalton Street, Boston, MA. You can also find it on the map here.

The One Dalton Building has received multiple architecture awards for its architectural design since 2019. The following is a list of such prizes and awards:

• LIV Design Awards in 2021
• 10 Stars from Forbes Travel Guide in 2023
• CTBUH Global Best Tall Building Award in 2022

At the time of it's completion the One Dalton Street Building became the tallest residential building in Boston.

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Henry Cobb as the lead architect, was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design, in association with CambridgeSeven. But there was also one other architect involved, as far as we know. We are talking about Gary Johnson.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the One Dalton Building a reality:

• WSP USA in charge of Structural Engineering
• Suffolk Construction as the Main Contractor
• Kone as the company in charge of the elevators system
• Carpenter & Company as the Main Developer
• WSP USA in charge of MEP Engineering
• Michael Van Valkenburgh in charge of Landscape Architecture
• Bill Rooney Studio, CambridgeSeven, and Thierry Despont in charge of Interior Design

The One Dalton Building can be categorized as a Contemporary building.

The One Dalton Building uses a frame structure made of reinforced concrete columns and beams.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features a gray-tinted glass curtain wall, offering very low reflectivity and low UV and solar-radiation transmittance.

From a volumetric point of view, the tower is shaped as an equilateral triangle with curved bays and corners, creating a smooth continuous curve. This tower sits on a warm gray granite base which matches the scale of the surrounding buildings.