John F. Kennedy Federal Building

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Building is a United States federal government office building located in the Government Center area of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to City Hall Plaza and diagonally across from Boston City Hall.

This combination of tall towers paired with low buildings is a common Modern form that is used extensively throughout the United States and abroad.

The double towers increase the number of offices lit by natural light and decrease the visual bulk that a single monolithic building would create.

The bases of the towers have arcades with entrances set back beneath a covered area supported by piers.

Vertical slabs form piers that interrupt the horizontality of the building and create the off-center entrance, which is articulated by a cantilevered porch.

Herbert Ferber designed an abstract sculpture of welded copper and stainless steel titled Full Circle: Profile in Courage, which is in the interior light court.

New England Elegy, a controversial mural by Robert Motherwell,[4] occupies the area between the towers and the low-rise building.

The two towers
(2017)
The low-rise building
(2014)