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Light Portal Boston, Architect, Images, Developments, News, Design, Photos
Light Portal : Boston Architecture
Project by James Carpenter Design Associates, Massachusetts, USA
Light Portal 1995-2007, Boston, MA, USA
Client: Central Artery Tunnel Authority, Boston
Design: JCDA
Architect of Record: Childs Bertman Tseckares
Engineer: Bechtel/Parsons/Brinkerhoff

As part of the positive urban transformation placing Interstate Highway
93 underground, the Light Portal marks the datum line through which
the nine lane highway descends from the Zakim Bridge into the Central
Artery Tunnel. JCDA designed a shaped concrete retaining wall from
which five hundred metal fins coated with a printed micro prism film
reflect light back to its source.

This phenomenon makes each fin glow under low light conditions and
luminously react to the headlights of the cars entering and leaving
the tunnel. This phenomenon primarily highlights the paths that connect
pedestrians to the Charles River, Boston Harbor and Boston's Greenway
while simultaneously heightening the experience of transition experienced
by the motorists.

Light Portal photographs © Andreas Keller
Light Portal images / information from James Carpenter Design Associates
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