500 Boylston Street is a 1.3-million square foot postmodern building located in the Back Bay section of Boston and part of the city's High Spine, completed in 1989.

It dominates the western half of the city block bounded by Boylston, Clarendon and Berkeley streets and St. James Avenue.

It has an underground parking lot for 1,000 cars that it shares with 222 Berkeley Street.

The building's distinctive design includes carved rose granite cladding with two-story windows, a vaulted copper roof line, and strong exterior column detailing.

The design, by John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson as Design Consultant, also includes a main building entrance through a courtyard, framed on each side by two symmetrical wings, each faced with soaring columns.