Eleven stories above ground level, Sarah Hawkins describes the herculean effort to create the brand new South Station Tower.

"We had to work only in the nighttime for two years," said Hawkins, the head of real estate development company Hines' U.S. East market. "We not only went through construction shutdowns , through the global pandemic, but we could only work at nighttime because the trains were running."

Challenging as it was, the end result is a skyscraper connecting the Greenway, Fort Point, Seaport and the Financial District.

"Coming up with a design that was able to speak to the heritage of Boston, but also to the ambitions," architect Graham Banks said.

He's a partner with firm Pelli Clarke and Partners, which designed the structure and upgrades to the bus and train term

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