Wednesday Tours

TB1 - Big Dig tour
8:00 – noon
Discover the Big Dig on this morning adventure with Big Dig veteran Dan McNichol.

TB2 - Peacock Farms Community: the legacy of site-specific living
8:00am – noon
The founding architect leads us on a unique tour in and around several of the 65 standard, but highly adaptable, homes that make up the Peacock Farms neighborhood located in Lexington, Massachusetts. Led by Walter Pierce FAIA.

TB3 - Two modern houses
8:00am - noon
This tour highlights modernist residential building in two of Boston's suburbs. Designed by the architect for his family in 1963, the Flansburgh residence in Lincoln is a simple but elegant structure built around a central courtyard. The Boyer residence (ARC/Architectural Resources, Cambridge) in Lincoln was designed to display the owner's collection of modern art and was featured as a 1972 Record House; Peter Sugar designed the most recent addition to the home. Led by Earl Flansburgh FAIA and Peter Sugar AIA.

TB4 - Shepley Bulfinch at Harvard: vision and legacy
8:00am - noon
With over 100 projects on the Harvard campus, from H. H. Richardson’s first work there in 1880 to the current renovation of Gallatin Hall at Harvard Business School, this Boston firm’s buildings of enduring quality and design have advanced Harvard’s visions of community and sustainability. Led by Thomas Kearns AIA and Terri Evans.

TB5 - Northpoint: Cambridge’s newest neighborhood
9:00am - noon
Archstone Northpoint stands at the intersection of two great cities. This exceptional location offered the opportunity to blend the allure of a downtown Boston lifestyle with a new rental community situated comfortably in its Cambridge surroundings. Join us for a tour and discussion of the remarkable space that is raising the standard for future residential development in the evolving Northpoint neighborhood. Led by Vicki Alani AIA.

TB6 - The development of the Rose Kennedy Greenway: lecture and tour
9:00 am - noon
Officially opened in 2008, the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway is Boston's new mile-long civic parkland, created to take the place of the old Central Artery that once divided Boston's communities. Robert A. Brown, senior partner in the office of CBT, past-president of the BSA, and a member of the Mayor's Central Artery Completion Task Force, leads an illustrated talk and tour of the Greenway. Led by Robert Brown AIA, IIDA.