Pro Arts Consortium

The Pro Arts Consortium proposes a new cultural anchor on Boylston Street, a four-story arts education facility designed to consolidate Boston's fragmented creative community under one roof. The building's defining gesture is a copper kinetic facade: hundreds of angled fins that shift in appearance with the light and the viewer's movement, making the building itself a living performance. The ground floor opens the building to the street, with a lobby, exhibition space, and café drawing the public in before any formal threshold is crossed. Above, dedicated floors for music studios, dance rehearsal, and professional recording suites stack the creative disciplines vertically, each with its own character and scale.

Urban loft — central stair hall
01Urban loft — central stair hall
Gallery corridor
02Gallery corridor
Exhibition space
03Exhibition space
Studio space
04Studio space
Axonometric view
05Axonometric view
Axonometric with material detail
06Axonometric with material detail
LEED Platinum sustainability diagram
07LEED Platinum sustainability diagram
Featured interior space
08Featured interior space
Program section
09Program section
First floor plan
10First floor plan
Third floor plan
11Third floor plan
Fourth floor plan
12Fourth floor plan
Facade wall section & construction details
13Facade wall section & construction details