One Federal Street Building

The One Federal Street Building is skyscraper designed by The Architects Collaborative, and built in 1976 in Boston, MA.

One Federal Street 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 Federal Street Building is also known, or has been known as, Shawmut Bank Building, or Fleet Boston Financial.

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

The building underwent a major restoration between 1992 and 2011.

The Architects Collaborative was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

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 Federal Street Building a reality:

• LeMessurier Consultants in charge of Structural Engineering
• Tishman Speyer Properties as the Main Developer

The One Federal Street Building can be categorized as building.

The One Federal Street Building uses a frame structure made of steel columns and concrete and steel slabs.

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.

The facade uses a non-load bearing curtain wall system. This means the curtain wall modules are anchored to the building's structural frame, typically by being attached to the edge of the floor slabs. The curtain wall system connects to the slabs using brackets, anchors, and mullions, which transfer the loads imposed by wind and temperature changes, to the building's primary structural elements.

This setup allows the curtain wall to accommodate differential movement between the facade and the structural frame, such as thermal expansion, floor deflection, or sway from wind forces. This system's integration with the slab edges also allows for continuous insulation and weatherproofing layers.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features composite stone panels from various types of stones, covering spandrels and the slender columns that organize the facades in several bays, framing the dark-tinted glass windows.

The tower grows from a 7-story-high podium clad in the same stone composite and dark glass.