The following photos are original architect sketches of a late-1960s plan to build an island neighborhood for the 1976 World Expo. The city, never built, was planned for the area between Columbia Point and Thompson Island.
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Boston Society of Architects
Original sketches froma plan to build an island Expo city in 1976, which would then become Boston's new floating neighborhood.
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Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe
The neighborhood was planned for the area between Columbia Point and Thompson Island.
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Boston Society of Architects
Architect Jan Wampler's plan for the 1976 Expo included a dome on Thompson Island.
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Boston Society of Architects
Wampler's plan also included a floating grid of buildings that extended from Columbia Point well into the harbor.
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Boston Society of Architects
The plan was perhaps the most dramatic reimagining of Boston’s landscape in the past half-century.
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Boston Society of Architects
This all-but-forgotten plan has resurfaced at the center of a conversation about whether it’s time for Boston to reclaim that sense of vision.
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Boston Society of Architects
Some thinkers say it’s time to acknowledge that effective planning means thinking beyond the city limits.
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Boston Society of Architects
The recent Boston Society of Architects exhibition of the sketches was intended to start the conversation.
