111 Huntington Avenue is a Boston skyscraper. Located on Huntington Avenue, it is part of the Prudential Center complex that also houses the Prudential Tower. Completed in 2002, the tower is 554 feet tall and houses 36 floors. It is Boston's 12th-tallest building. It won the 2002 bronze Emporis Skyscraper Award. It is sometimes given the unofficial nickname The R2-D2 Building after the Star Wars droid's top, and the Juicer Building after its juicer-type top.
View of 111 Huntington Avenue from the Prudential Tower observatory
111 Huntington Avenue is seen unobstructed from the South End in Boston. Behind it is the Prudential Tower.
The Prudential Tower, also known as the Prudential Building or, colloquially, The Pru, is an international style skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts. The building, a part of the Prudential Center complex, currently stands as the 2nd-tallest building in Boston, behind 200 Clarendon Street, formerly the John Hancock Tower. The Prudential Tower was designed by Charles Luckman and Associates for Prudential Insurance. Completed in 1964, the building is 749 feet (228 m) tall, with 52 floors, and is tied with others as the 114th-tallest in the United States. It contains 1.2 million sq ft (110,000 m2) of commercial and retail space. Including its radio mast, the tower's pinnacle height reaches 907 feet (276 m).
Vertical panoramic view of the Prudential Tower
The Prudential Tower as seen from the Back Bay, near the intersection of Commonwealth and Massachusetts Avenues.
Unfinished Prudential Tower in 1963, dwarfs the Old John Hancock building at left
Prudential Tower showing the "GO SOX" light pattern in support of the Boston Red Sox
