North Meadow on The Greenway
BOSTON, MA
North Meadow is a site of constant reinvention. Once open water within the Charles River Estuary, then dammed to become “Mill Pond,” it was later filled as part of the 19th Century development of Boston. In the 20th century, the construction of Interstate 93 rendered the site in shadow starting a period of neglect that would continue until just recently. After years of planning and construction—with the famed “Big Dig,”—I-93 was buried to allow for the realization of The Rose Kennedy Greenway, a corridor of parks and open spaces knitting together Downtown Boston. As the northernmost and last unbuilt park space on The Greenway, North Meadow acts as a gateway and keystone green space to the larger whole while providing an outsized impact and much-needed natural oasis for the adjacent Boston neighborhoods.
CLIENT
Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA)
in partnership with
The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)
TEAM
Unknown Studio
Tetra Tech
Lumen Studio
Pine & Swallow Environmental
Hovercraft Studio
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jane Messinger