Facade face lift requires surgical ...

Facade face lift requires surgical precision

Compromises are being worked on the outside between developers and historic preservationists as a growing number of just discovered urban construction projects incorporate existing facades into their designs.

Although these compromises create a public benefit by the agency of retaining the scale and character of historic formations while allowing new building uses to become visible they also generate additional design and construction vexed questions for the project team.

Boston's 125 Summer road a 23-story tower recently built behind four 4- to 6-story 1870 masonry