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Goulston & Storrs

Goulston & Storrs

Boston, Massachusetts

Project Information

  • Consolidation and relocation of the offices of law firm Goulston & Storrs to occupy 100,000 square feet on four floors at One Post Office Square.
  • The space features a welcoming reception/co-working space exposing three sides of the building for access to the spectacular views and private outdoor deck overlooking Post Office Square and the Boston Harbor.
  • The new law firm prototype embraces single-size attorney offices with strategically-placed glass walls for attorney privacy while allowing daylight penetration into the floor plate.

Photography © Connie Zhou

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Water Street Tampa

Water Street Tampa

Tampa, Florida
Client: Strategic Property Partners, Cascade Investment Group

Project Description

  • Elkus Manfredi created a master plan of more than 10 million square feet for a mixed-use neighborhood that is the first WELL Pre-certified Community in the world and has transformed downtown Tampa.
  • The mixed-use nature of the development encourages street life that is active 18 hours a day.
  • An active pedestrian experience is at the heart of the master plan, with one million square feet of new retail, cultural, educational, and entertainment space at street level, as well as 12.9 acres of new and enhanced park and public gathering places.
  • The diverse mix of residences, business, retail, and other uses will act as a magnet for talent in commerce, the arts, education, and other urban attributes.

Photography and Renderings: © Strategic Property Partners

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Lyrik Back Bay

Lyrik Back Bay

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Samuels & Associates

Project Description

  • Samuels & Associates commissioned Elkus Manfredi Architects to transform an inhospitable stretch of highway overpass with a holistically designed mixed-use project that addresses a major rupture in Boston’s urban fabric created by the Massachusetts Turnpike and the CSX tracks. The two-tower project is the first privately developed air-rights project over the Massachusetts Turnpike since Copley Place in the 1980s.
  • This vital mixed-use hub consists of approximately 50,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 425,000 square feet of office space, 150,000 square feet of hotel use, as well as a below-grade parking garage with approximately 150 parking spaces.
  • The two towers are connected by a podium that includes restaurant and retail tenants and a two-level civic urban plaza. The plaza welcomes the public and its abundant landscaped greenery continues a tradition in Boston of integrating landscape, public space, and urban infrastructure.
  • The office building is certified LEED-NC Gold and WELL Core Certified Gold, and the hotel (CitizenM) is certified LEED-NC Gold.

 

Photographer: Bruce Martin

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Third Rock Ventures

Third Rock Ventures

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Third Rock Ventures

Project Information

  • Third Rock Ventures, a leading healthcare venture capital firm, integrates scientific and medical innovation with business and operational acumen to build sustainable companies that are pioneering break-through medicines helping people all over the world.
  • The design of Third Rock Venture’s new home seamlessly blends the story of their former historic Boston Back Bay office with the modern efficiency and industrial character of their new office at 201 Brookline Avenue.
  • Designers used multiple strategies to infuse the new space with a sense of the company’s origins, creating layers that add deeper dimension to the building’s contemporary proportions and materials using subtle cues to the past.
  • Special features of the project include a 50-foot-long outdoor deck offering employees views of Fenway Park, an airy blue employee café with a family farm table, collaborative office neighborhoods, and a Patient Impact Wall that celebrates the patients and families whose lives are transformed by the companies Third Rock Ventures has created.

Photography © Evan Joseph

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Nuro Headquarters

Nuro Headquarters

Mountain View, California
Client: Nuro

“Elkus Manfredi possesses the rare ability to swiftly immerse themselves in a brand’s culture while taking hold of the process and effectively guiding their clients. Throughout the entire process, employee engagement and change management were not just critical, but principle to the journey, resulting in an exciting and engaging process.”

Tim Bergen

Former Head of Workplace & Real Estate, Nuro

Project Information

  • Named as one of “The 10 Most Innovative Companies” in the robotics industry by Fast Company, Nuro selected Elkus Manfredi Architects to design a phased expansion of its Silicon Valley workplace.
  • The new headquarters needed to serve as a tool for recruiting, accommodating a variety of individual and collaborative work styles, cultivating cross-functional partnerships and learning, and promoting employee wellness.
  • Elkus Manfredi transformed 165,000 square feet of cavernous warehouse space into a human-scaled office, fostering connection, choice, and spontaneous interaction.
  • The concept of a ring road designed for both people and Nuro’s autonomous vehicles separates the office’s inner loop and outer loop and divides the interior into “neighborhoods”.

Photography © Eric Laignel

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Suffolk Headquarters

Suffolk Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Suffolk Construction

Project Description

  • Reinvention of Boston headquarters, transforming it into a hard-working tool that affirms Suffolk’s commitment to the city and neighborhood.
  • Conference rooms and private offices were replaced with open workspaces to foster collaboration.
  • Amenities include a cafeteria serving freshly prepared meals plus a fitness center, tele-med room, hair salon, nail salon, dry cleaning, outdoor spaces, and signature stadium presentation space that can also be used by the surrounding Roxbury community and non-profit organizations.

Photography: Eric Laignel

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TMC3 Collaborative Building

TMC3 Collaborative Building

Houston
Client: Texas Medical Center, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, UT Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Project Description

  • Elkus Manfredi Architects are the master planners of Texas Medical Center (TMC) Helix Park. The first building and cornerstone is the TMC³ Collaborative Building which is a role model for the cross-disciplinary collaboration required by today’s science.
  • The building is designed to accommodate three research institutions working in interdisciplinary teams and cross-pollinating with industry partners to accelerate translational therapies from academic science to commercialization. The founding partners are TMC, Texas A&M, UT Health, and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
  • At 260,000 square feet, the building features four floors plus a fifth-floor penthouse, and includes laboratory, office, conference, and retail space, as well as a fixed-seat lecture hall and a four-story central atrium public space utilized for events and presentations.
  • The atrium is designed with a series of stairs and glass walls along labs to create maximum transparency and help foster interaction among the founding institutions and industry research teams.
  • In addition to research spaces, Elkus Manfredi also designed the interiors of marketing and executive suites for TMC and the research showcase for the Nobel Prize-winning James P. Allison Institute.

Photography by Joe Aker, Robert Benson and Eric Laignel.

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MullenLowe Group

MullenLowe Group

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: MullenLowe Group

Project Information

  • Leading creative services agency MullenLowe Group engaged Elkus Manfredi Architects to design their two-level, 66,000-square foot office in Boston’s Seaport District.
  • Elkus Manfredi’s workplace strategists guided MullenLowe to determine their specific goals which included flexible spaces designed to anticipate multiple uses.
  • Employees can adapt their workspaces to suit their creative mindset, while the overall essence of transparency in the office keeps teams connected and encourages creative collisions.
  • Color is used strategically, taking cues from the rubato movement in music, which punctuates neutral rhythms with energizing bursts of color.
  • The project is certified LEED ID+C Gold: Commercial Interiors.

 

Photography © Andrew Bordwin

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CBRE New England Headquarters

CBRE New England Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: CBRE/New England

Project Information

  • This 45,000-sf office is part of CBRE’s Workplace360 initiative, the company’s leading-edge approach to flexible workplace strategy in the ‘heart’ of the office.
  • Diverse space types offer employees choice of work environment and includes a mix of perimeter offices, unassigned workstations, meeting rooms, touchdown stations, and an array of informal connecting areas

Photography © Connie Zhou

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AEW Capital Management

AEW Capital Management

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: AEW Capital Management

Project Information

  • AEW embarked on a full visioning, employee engagement, utilization and culture study to inform the new design of their Seaport offices, which they had occupied for 20 years.
  • An employee-centric space with health and wellness in mind that achieved WELL certification.
  • Transitioned from a private-office, hierarchal environment to an open environment.
  • A rich variety of work settings offer employees choice for hybrid working.

 

Photography © Evan Joseph