Landmark Center Gateway, West Fenway Neighborhood

Landmark Center Gateway (A), in the West Fenway Neighborhood, is one of six gateways to the neighborhood. I analyzed this gateway, as well as the Trilogy/D'Angelos Block (#1) in between Brookline Avenue and Boylston Street. The drawings below (except for the very first image) were produced by myself, and my partner produced the drawings that are on her blog. (http://www.rachelkessel.blogspot.com/)

I use the term 'gateway' figuratively because Landmark Center doesn't literally have a gateway guarding the entrance to the neighborhood. Rather, Landmark Center acts as a visual and spacial barrier that separates the non-Fenway neighborhoods from the neighborhood itself. Landmark is a monolithic blocky building that overshadows the other smaller buildings. The only comparatively large building is the new Trilogy apartment complex, of similar height, that together with Landmark frames Brookline Avenue. Boylston Street is not quite as framed as Brookline Avenue, with large gaps and empty parking lots that break up the buildings. The adjacent Pererborough Street is parallel to Boylston Street, and is the first neighborhood street that is completely residential at the Landmark Gateway.

Images 1-4 pertain to the overall gateway whereas the rest of the images pertain to my block specifically.