At 400 feet and 35 stories, the curved glass tower that houses Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences announced itself on the Back Bay skyline in 2023 as something the city hadn't seen before — a double-cantilever structure designed by The Architectural Team that essentially floats its upper mass above Copley Square. That engineering ambition sets the tone for everything inside. Stonehill Taylor handled the hotel's guestrooms and public spaces, and the range is considerable: standard rooms layer warm oak floors, channeled leather headboards, and deep-toned walnut millwork in a palette that feels more Manhattan than Massachusetts, while the suite category pushes further with a burnished gold arched headboard surround flanked by dark marble nightstands — theatrical without tipping into excess. The property's sky lobby, spanning floors seventeen through nineteen, is where the tower's structural drama becomes fully legible. The rooftop bar, dressed by Studio Paolo Ferrari in channeled emerald velvet banquettes and sculptural multi-arm pendants with milk-glass diffusers, frames panoramic views of the Charles River and Boston Harbor at a scale that few hotel rooms in the city can match. Below, the Rockwell Group-designed spa includes a lap pool set beneath a double-height void, its dark concrete and polished ceiling reflecting the water in a quietly cinematic way. As the first Raffles property in North America, it carries the brand's colonial-era legacy into a building that is unambiguously of this decade.

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