Projects by Name

In 1969, the Boston real estate developers, Cabot, Cabot and Forbes Company, assembled a parcel of land large enough to accommodate a skyscraper with 1.5 to 2 million square feet of office space. Breuer and his partner Herbert Beckhard designed a four-story base supporting a large tower with setbacks, the facades a nearly identical expanse of modular concrete panels. The floor plates varied in size but all featured large expanses with few supports around a central core of elevators, restrooms and other mechanical services. Despite a signed contract, the developers scuttled the project in June of 1971, allegedly because the building’s cost was too high. The two parties reached a settlement in December of the following year.