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架构师提供的文本描述。10月底开幕的区厅是世界上第一个独立的公共创新中心，一个单层的展馆，致力于将创新社区聚集在一起。这是波士顿环球投资公司23英亩的海滨开发项目-海港广场-建造的第一个项目.这座建筑位于波士顿创新区的中心地带，占地一千英亩，是历史上工业化的南波士顿滨水区，已被改造成一个促进创新、协作和创业的城市环境。区厅将成为这个新兴地区的支柱，这是21世纪经济的一种新型公共基础设施。这座建筑位于现代艺术学院、一个新的公共码头、自行车共享站和公交站以及波士顿快速发展的滨水区的几个公园之间的一个天然聚集地。

Text description provided by the architects. Opened at the end of October, District Hall is the world’s first freestanding public innovation center, a single-story pavilion dedicated to gathering the innovation community together. It is the first project built for Boston Global Investors' 23-acre waterfront development, Seaport Square. The building is located in the heart of Boston’s Innovation District, a thousand acres of the historically industrial South Boston waterfront that has been transformed into an urban environment that fosters innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship. District Hall will serve as an anchor in this emerging district, a new kind of public infrastructure for the 21st century economy. The building is located at a natural gathering place between the Institute of Contemporary Art, a new public marina, bike-sharing and transit stops, and several parks on Boston’s rapidly developing waterfront.

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12，000 SF设施将为有希望的公司和高管提供空间，使他们能够会面和交流想法，并举办商业和社会活动。它将包括一家向公众开放的餐厅；一个可容纳250个座位的灵活装配空间；一个有休息室座位和工作台的集合空间；以及几个称为“吊舱”的灵活空间，用于支持各种用途，包括弹出式零售商店、会议、班级和展览。

The 12,000 SF facility will provide space for promising companies and executives to meet and exchange ideas and to host business and social events. It will include a restaurant that will be open to the public; a flexible assembly space with a capacity of 250 seats; a gathering space with lounge seating and worktables; and several flex spaces called "pods", meant to support a variety of uses, including pop-up retail shops, meetings, classes, and ex

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这座建筑建在以前的滨水铁路场址上，建筑的材料和形式都受到了该地区的工业和航海用途的启发。这座建筑有两个基本要素：一个长的低栏，指的是用来填满铁路场的火车车厢；另一个是角壳，用来拾取船艇和航运业仓库的材料和形状。

Built on the site of the former waterfront rail yards, the building's architecture is inspired in both material and form by the industrial and nautical uses that characterize the area. The building has two basic elements: a long low bar that references the train cars that used to fill the rail yards, and an angular shell that picks up on the materials and shapes of the boats and warehouses of the shipping industry.

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室内设计非常灵活，并支持许多不同行业的各种规模的活动：从黑客大会到鸡尾酒会，从主旨演讲到创业展示之夜。该空间配备了灵活和互动的组成部分，加强了创建创新社区会议和交换意见中心的意图。IdeaPaint的可写墙面，山楂设计的可重构家具，以及与Philips Color Dynamic合作开发的可编程照明，所有这些都是为了让用户定制空间。多功能性也被设计成具有设计特性的结构，使大房间易于划分成更小的空间，增加额外的外部门，使新的空间可以被公开访问。或者在旋转的基础上很容易地将艺术品或技术装置挂在整个空间中。

The interior is designed to be extremely flexible and support events of all sizes for many different industries: everything from hackathons to cocktail parties, from keynote lectures to startup showcase nights. The space is outfitted with flexible and interactive components that reinforce the intention of creating a hub for the innovation community to meet and exchange ideas.  Writeable wall surfaces by IdeaPaint, easily reconfigurable furniture by Hawthorn, and programmable lighting created in partnership with Philips Color Kinetics all work together to allow users to customize the space. Versatility is also designed into the structure with design features that make it easy to divide large rooms into smaller spaces, add extra exterior doors to make new spaces publicly accessible, or easily hang artwork or technology installations throughout the space on a rotating basis.

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由里德·希尔德布兰德(Reed Hilderbrand)设计的景观，介于企业孵化器、会议和酒店之间的建筑项目与其他繁忙的城市之间。区厅设置在当地植物的演替景观中，包括一片灌木丛以缓冲目前在西部的停车场，还有一片高羊茅草甸和一片天然的白桦树树林遮住了新的ICA连接器。一座高高的餐厅露台从大楼的咖啡厅延伸到风景中，俯瞰港口的景色。市政厅的景观预示着世界一流的城市公园-海港绿色公园，它将成为同样由HA和里德·希尔德布兰德设计的海港社区的标志性公共特色，预计将于2015年年初完工。

The landscape, by Reed Hilderbrand, mediates between the building program inside—business incubator, conferencing, and hospitality—and the busy city beyond. District Hall is set within a successional landscape of native plantings, including a shrub thicket to buffer the current parking on the west, and a tall fescue meadow with a grove of native gray birch shading the new ICA connector. A raised dining terrace projects out from the building's café into the landscape toward views to the harbor. The District Hall landscape prefigures the world-class urban public park, Seaport Green, that will become the defining public feature of the Seaport neighborhood also designed by H+A and Reed Hilderbrand, and scheduled for completion in early 2015.

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区厅是波士顿市、波士顿全球投资者和风险咖啡馆基金会合作的结果。2010年，当市长托马斯·M·梅尼诺(Thomas M.Menino)提出创新区的愿景时，他呼吁为创新者和企业家建立一个相互联系的中心聚集空间。这座大楼是由波士顿全球投资者与波士顿市和波士顿重建管理局合作建造的，将由风险咖啡馆基金会运营，该基金会是一个支持肯德尔广场初创企业的组织。这座建筑是布里尔集团经营的一家餐厅和咖啡店的所在地。

District Hall is a result of a partnership between the City of Boston, Boston Global Investors, and the Venture Cafe Foundation. When Mayor Thomas M. Menino set out the vision for the Innovation District in 2010, he called for the creation of a central gathering space for innovators and entrepreneurs to connect with each other. The building was built by Boston Global Investors in partnership with the City of Boston and the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and will be operated by the Venture Cafe Foundation, an organization that supports start-up ventures in Kendall Square. The building is home to a restaurant and coffee shop operated by the Briar Group.

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Architects Hacin + Associates

Location 75 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210, USA

Category Community

Landscape Architect Reed Hilderbrand Associates, Inc

Hacin + Associates team David Hacin, President; Scott Thomson, Project Architect; Matthew Arnold, Project Manager; Nicole Fichera, Designer

Reed Hilderbrand Team Gary Hilderbrand, Principal; Chris Moyles, Principal/Project Manager; Ryan Wampler, Associate; Leslie Carter, Designer

Project Year 2014

Photographs Gustav Hoiland, Flagship Photo