by Nicola Orichuia

"But what if you could?" Sitting in their Belmont home, Don Chiofaro and his wife, Diane, considered her question as they contemplated his notes for a 1.8 million square foot development project that would one day become International Place.

It was 1981, and the challenge was bigger and more audacious than anything Chiofaro had undertaken so far in his life: transforming a waterfront lot with 10 different properties and a garage into one of the most elegant and stunning buildings in Boston. "I thought of it as a movie," he says. "And I wanted it to win the Academy Award."

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Fonte: Bostoniano