One Lincoln Street Building

The One Lincoln Street Building is a Postmodernist skyscraper designed in 1990 by TRO Jung Brannen , and built between 2000 and 2003, for a reported $350 million dollars, in Boston, MA.

One Lincoln Street Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as State Street Financial Center.

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

The One Lincoln Street Building has received multiple architecture awards for its architectural design since 2003. The following is a list of such prizes and awards:

• Boston Building of the Year BOMA in 2003
• Boston Building of the Year in 2004

TRO Jung Brannen 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 Lincoln Street Building a reality:

• Weidlinger Associates in charge of Structural Engineering
• Skanska as the Main Contractor
• American Financial Realty Trust as the Main Developer

The One Lincoln Street Building can be categorized as a Postmodernist building.

The One Lincoln Street Building was completed in 2003. By 2003 the Postmodernism movement was experiencing a transition. Critics argued that Postmodernism, initially a rebellious and innovative style, had become formulaic and commercialized, and so the trend started moving away from blending historical styles, irony, and playful ornamentation, and begun to give way to emerging architectural trends concerned with more present matters such as technology, ecology or sustainability.

The One Lincoln Street Building uses a framed tube-in-tube structure , with steel columns and concrete slabs.

A framed tube-in-tube structure uses a central core, known as inner tube, which usually holds stairs, lifts and installations, and a perimeter of columns around it, which form the exterior tube. The interior tube is tipically more massive (often made of reinforced concrete), and the exterior tube is "lighter" (made of steel or concrete columns). Both tubes are conencted via horizontal elements which make up the floors and also transmit any horizontal froces from the facade to the core.

The facade of the building is load bearing. This is a direct consequence of the integration of the exterior "tube" into the facade, something which most framed tube-in-tube buildings do in order to liberate the interior space from structural elements and achieve a more flexible interior.

So the facade of the builing is techinically load-bearing, yes, however, in between the load-bearing colums we find a curtain-wall type of facade, which by itself would not be cosnidered load-bearing.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features gray granite panels on the first two levels, followed by light-toned prefabricated panels covering the facade up to the top, eventually turning into a blue-tinted glass and aluminum curtain wall towards the top of the building. This transition is managed through a series of setbacks.