Currently known as the Niketown Building after its principal tenant, this four-story structure combines retail and office space joined through a drum-shaped entrance tower corner, a light-filled space rising the entire height of the building. An effort to relate to the complexity of the Back Bay fabric has created an extremely eclectic facade with far ranging surface quotations. Counterpoint rhythms mark the vertical piers framing the complex fenestration, whereas the whole configuration remotely recalls earlier department store
200 Newbury Street
Peter Vanderwarker or Antonina Smith
200 Newbury Street
1997, CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares.