100 Federal Street

The building First National Bank Building is a skyscraper in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. It was completed in 1971 and is 591 ft ( 180.14 m ) tall and 37 floors, the sixth- tallest building in the city. First he Headquartered Bank of Boston the global headquarters and later the headquarters of Fleet Boston Financial. Today the building houses offices of Bank of America.

Design

The design of the building is unusual in that it has at the bottom of a multi-floor extending bulge. The architect of the building saw this before, to allow pedestrians a better view and at the same time to increase the available office space. The tower is partially, partly associated with the architectural style of the Streamline Moderne to the Brutalist.