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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 new 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

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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

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Publicis Groupe

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Publicis Groupe’s new 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

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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

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One Broadway Lobby

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Repositioning the 4,500-sf lobby in the One Broadway office tower introduces a vibrant, welcoming space for people to connect, collaborate, and recharge.
In a unique departure from traditional lobby design, comfortable seating and a spacious communal worktable offer alternative workspaces for visitors and building tenants.
Wall treatments, furniture, light fixtures, and drapery create definition in the open space. Acoustical solutions include a wall of fabric-wrapped tiles, acoustic tiles that disappear into each ceiling waffle, and large area rugs.
A wall-sized glass garage door swings open to connect the adjacent restaurant to the lobby, adding to warm and welcoming atmosphere.

Photos © Adrian Wilson

Comfortable seating areas provide opportunities for coworking and conversation or quiet work.

Laptop tables turn the seating banquette into an alternative workspace

The wall-sized garage door opens to connect the lively restaurant to the lobby area.

Banquette seating with felt-wrapped acoustical tiles

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Charles River Associates Chicago

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Transformed the consulting firm’s existing 35,620-sf office into a welcoming, daylight-filled, productive environment with a balance of private workspaces and collaborative gathering areas.
Adapted CRA’s standardized real estate metrics developed by Elkus Manfredi and implemented for other CRA office redesigns in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Created a visually-arresting staircase in the heart of the office that physically and emotionally connects the two floors and reflects light deep into the office.
Kindled collegiality and collaboration among staff by co-locating junior and senior colleagues in work neighborhoods and relocating the office’s café to staircase’s base.

Photographer: © Andrew Bordwin

coworkers having casual meeting in office cafe

coworkers having a conversation walking down open and airy office stairs

Chicago skyline through open office stairs and office cafe

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Samuels & Associates Headquarters

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This contemporary corporate headquarters reflects the company’s commitment to urban adaptive re-use by celebrating the 8,600-sf space’s industrial past as an automotive garage.
Design touches speak to the building’s history as well as the authentic, creative culture of the company and its entrepreneurial founder and chairman.
Four different meeting spaces off the welcoming reception area allow for private client meetings, and then can be opened up to create a larger space for entertaining and events.
Functional, comfortable workspaces accommodate 100 employees with a variety of public and private work areas.

Photographer: Eric Laignel

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Raptor Group

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Raptor Group’s headquarters functions as workspace, art gallery, and social setting.
Industrial materials that celebrate the harborfront, such as reclaimed wood, polished concrete, and exposed ceilings, juxtaposed with refined elements including detailed millwork and felt wall finishes create a sophisticated gallery-like environment.
Collaboration zones with writable wall surfaces, employee café, and fitness center are all venues for informal interaction and collaboration.

Photographer: Jasper Sanidad

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The Grove

“It was very important for me to try to transport people to a better place and time. I wanted to create a Main Street for a city that does not have one.”

Rick Caruso

CEO, Caruso Affiliated

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Winner of seven national awards, the 600,000-sf open-air development is a thriving, urban, pedestrian-oriented retail and entertainment destination.
Connected to the Los Angeles Farmers Market and centered around a “Main Street” and a “Town Green” – in a city that has neither – the master plan uses active, welcoming public spaces as anchors.
Pedestrian-scaled streetscapes and an overall European aesthetic creates a spirited sense of place.

Photographer: RMA Architectural Photographers

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The Eli and Edythe L Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

“This building provides the extraordinary research community across Boston with a remarkable space for scientific collaboration and discovery. It also represents a deep commitment to Kendall Square and Cambridge, and the community that has nurtured us over the past decade.”

Dr. Eric Lander

President and Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

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Created by a collaboration among MIT, Harvard, and the Harvard affiliated hospitals, the Broad Institute features design that facilitates interaction among the most gifted thinkers of our time, accommodating the research practices of today and anticipating the research ventures of tomorrow.
The building is open and flexible, quickly adapting to changing research needs in a state-of-the-art environment where life science researchers can think, investigate, and create.
The building is designed for high-hazard urban research with capacity in infrastructure to accommodate diverse demands.

Photographer: Anton Grassl / Esto

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