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Third Rock Ventures

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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

“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

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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

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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

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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, Baylor College of Medicine, 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

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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

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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

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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

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Foley Hoag

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Elkus Manfredi worked with this leading international law firm headquartered in Boston to design updated workspaces and an expanded two-level conference center. The office now features state-of-the-art technology, client-focused meeting spaces, innovation in individual workspace designs, and increased daylight for all employees.
The centralized conference center, with a variety of flexible spaces, provides comfortable meeting areas for the firm’s local team, while enabling them to better serve clients in the community and around the globe.
Design and amenities that promote health and wellness include a full cooking kitchen and barista coffee bar.

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MassMutual

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With a curvilinear exterior and tiered set-backs, this new 17-story building establishes a uniquely elegant presence on Fan Pier— a distinctive glass façade configured in a pattern of contrasting angles, accentuating the building’s curvature and harmonizing with the waterfront neighborhood.
The interior provides human-centered design for nearly 1,000 associates in an activity-based work environment (ABW) with flexible, inclusive work areas that are fully supportive of employee health and wellness.
The building features a series of employee-focused amenities, including two outdoor terraces; a café serving healthy, freshly prepared food options; a barista bar; and a large, multipurpose collaboration and training space.
Spaces are organized around neighborhoods, which offer a robust variety of space and furniture types ranging from acoustically private to open collaboration areas.
This building has achieved LEED Platinum certification and employs strategies to cope with rising sea levels.

Robert Benson and Bruce Martin (exteriors), and Eric Laignel (interiors)

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Roche Diagnostics

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Creating a flexible workspace that would allow for future growth, the fit-out of Roche’s new Global Center of Excellence for Hematology consolidates three existing operations into one.
The fit-out design consists of approximately one-third laboratory space (with BSL‑1 & BSL‑2 laboratory functions), and two-thirds office workplace functions.
Our team incorporated recommendations from Roche’s workplace consultant and integrated Roche’s Seven Principles of Design: context, functionality, form, space, elements, light, and color. By doing so, the resulting design creates a comfortable and engaging space for staff to utilize.