A short walk from North Station, there is a building right on the corner of Causeway St, Merrimac St, and Staniford St. This building wraps around the corner of the street giving it an almost "J" shape in plan. This building houses, A Beat Away Entertainment, Accelerated Physical Therapy, and a museum. Right at the intersection, there is a moment in which the curvature of the buildings facade is broken by a large block that extrudes itself out towards the street, giving itself an "authority" as the front of the building. This form translates back to the Pantheon because the circular plan of it is also interrupted by a similar shape extrusion.
This building had another similarity back to Roman Architecture. The block that extrudes itself off of the building is less of a translation to the Pantheon and more of a reflection of the Arch of Trajan. What i mean is that the Pantheons block front was an entrance into the structure, but in this case, the giant arch actually pushes all the way through the building making a passageway to a courtyard behind the building. So this Arch is more of a passage, like the Arch of Trajan, than an entrance, like the Pantheon. Also, there is one massive Arch in the center and two secondary arches to either side of the main one. This also translates back to the arches in the Arch of Trajan
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