Paul's House Diary

The Hancock Building is a total babe. So what if Boston hasn’t built a better skyscraper in the 40 plus years since this giant shard of glass landed in Copley Square – it’s gorgeous. There is so little to it. It’s a mirrored rhombus that shoots 800 feet vertically with a Geordi LaForge-esque black band across the top of the west-facing facade and black bars shooting up it’s sides. The building looks different from every angle. It looks like a giant glass flagpole sticking out of one of the brownstones biking up Beacon Street. Looking down Clarendon from Boylston, it’s a big fat mirror facing the Fidelity bankers in the old Hancock Tower. It’s blinding when viewed on a sunny afternoon and a daunting presence on a cloudy morning. It’s the highlight of Boston’s high-spine, .

I’m recycling this pic from my Marathon post. It was too pretty for me not to give it more attention. Since I’ve started my career as an amateur urban-photog, this building has given me my best stuff yet. Everyone has a cache of Hancock pictures if you shoot in Boston, but the building totally deserves it.