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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, 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

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

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Foley Hoag

Foley Hoag

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Foley Hoag LLP

Project Information

  • 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.

 

Photography © Evan Joseph

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MassMutual

MassMutual

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: MassMutual, The Fallon Company

Project Description

  • 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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Chicago Athenaeum — American Architecture Awards

Winner- Corporate Office Buildings

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Boston Society for Architecture (BSA/AIA)

Merit Award — Commercial Architecture

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Fast Company’s Innovation By Design Awards

Honorable Mention — Best Workplace Designs

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Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), New York Chapter

Design Award of Honor

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Society of British & International Interior Design (SBID) Awards

Finalist– Office Design over 2,000 SqM

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International Interior Design Association (IIDA), New England Chapter

Winner– Workspace Large (Over 80,000  SF)

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International Design Awards (IDA)

Bronze Winner — Architecture Commercial Building

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Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), Boston and Rhode Island Section, Award of Top Section Merit and Lighthouse Award

The Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Lighting Design

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Built Environment Plus Green Building Showcase

People’s Choice Award

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Interior Design magazine

Best of Year Finalist — Extra Large Corporate Office

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Interior International Plantscape Awards

Platinum Winner — Atrium Garden Plantings

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Architecture Masterprize Awards

Winner — Commercial Architecture

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Chicago Athenaeum — International Architecture Awards

Honorable Mention

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World Architecture News (WAN) Americas Awards

Winner — Commercial

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BLT Design Awards

Honorable Mention — Architectural Design / Commercial

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Roche Diagnostics

Roche Diagnostics

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Roche Pharmaceuticals

Project Information

  • 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.

Photography © Bruce Martin

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Mintz

Mintz

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Mintz Levin

Project Information

  • Operational efficiency for today’s high-powered law practice and the flexibility to evolve as business needs evolve.
  • Advanced ergonomics and systems for lighting and air quality maximize comfort; adjacencies boost efficiency; and varied meeting spaces support different collaborative needs.
  • Through a co-creation process, Mintz employees from all levels had a voice in both programming and the furniture and design-element selection process.

Photography © Connie Zhou

Award

[D]Arc Lighting Awards

Shortlisted – Places: High Budget

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Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Publicis Groupe

Project Information

  • Publicis Groupe’s 215,000-sf workplace was co-created with its 1,500 employees and our designers to reflect the identities and cultures of several different companies coming together for the first time.
  • The result is a flexible, 100% activity-based workplace that supports employee choice of where and how to work, while consistent floor plans unify the entire workplace.
  • Every floor features a joy space—an informal café on each floor that reflects the brand’s culture and preferences and provides an inviting space to collaborate, relax, and find inspiration.
  • Common amenity spaces include a grand two-story amphitheater, a makers lab, a conference center with reconfigurable walls, and a spacious top-floor café with a rooftop terrace for employees to come together for a meal, meeting, or functions.

Photography © Eric Laignel

A two-story amphitheatre at Publicis Groups allows for all-staff meetings and presentations
Top-floor communal cafe space at Publicis Groupe
Touch-down work setting for casual meetings or brainstorming with views of Post Office Square
Work neighborhood with variety of work stations for employees to choose from
Work terrace on Level 10 at Publicis Groupe in Boston
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Aetna

Aetna

Wellesley, Massachusetts
Client: Aetna

Project Information

  • The new 80,000-sf office space supports the health company’s marketing and communications team with an inspiring, natural light-filled, collaborative environment.
  • Designers applied a “resi-mercial” approach to create a space that integrates the comfort of a modern residential aesthetic into highly specific and sophisticated work functions.
  • Designed with staff health and wellness in mind, every space type is ergonomically designed, from meeting rooms and individual offices to the wide range of informal spaces.
  • The spacious café filled with natural light helps to foster a sense of one cohesive community, allowing all staff to spontaneously connect and collaborate with each other.

Photography © Connie Zhou

Work stations with custom millwork lattice
A seating area for casual meetings in the pink lounge
Seating area in communal cafe
Seating detail in cafe