Boston - Back Bay

South-west of Boston Common, between the Charles River and Huntington Avenue, is the Back Bay area, laid out on a regular grid, with numerous office and commercial tower blocks and cultural institutions. South of Boylston Street are many modern skyscrapers. On Berkeley Street (No. 200) is the 495ft/151m high John Hancock Building, with a pyramidal top, headquarters of the insurance corporation of that name.