Fort Point Channel - Boston, MA

MSA is responsible for design guidelines, graphics and construction drawings for a fifteen block area in the historical Fort Point district. The area includes New Northern Avenue, as well as many of the streets from Fort Point Channel to the World Trade Center. Our design emphasizes the area's past industrial history while suggesting its connection to the future business and recreational uses. We will be emphasizing the fact that this is a major new "front door" into the city. New fencing, rows of large street trees, special signage and lighting along New Northern Avenue will continue the tradition of elegant boulevards and roadways that are the underpinning of Boston's character as a gracious and sophisticated city. A new pocket park with sculpture will form a "gateway" at the waterfront near the World Trade Center. Shade trees in the widest part of the median strips will add vertical elements to this extremely flat landscape. In order to increase a newly planted tree's chances of survival, MSA is conducting extensive research to come up with an alternative for the standard tree pit and grate.