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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Global Headquarters

Project Description

Fifteen-story building for global pharmaceutical campus creates 424,000 sf of research, laboratory, and office space, and 18,000 sf of retail and restaurant space.
Lab design and interior design for the entire 1.18-million-sf campus promotes free-flowing communication and scientific discovery.
Welcoming environment offers daylit research and laboratory facilities, open workstations, private offices, five types of collaboration space, centrally located employee “living rooms” on each office floor, and a 500-person café with a roof terrace overlooking Boston Harbor.

Photographer: Chuck Choi

“The tallest height was located at the periphery of the Fan Pier development, and its low-rise component was utilized to address the impact on the public realm and to create a massing relief at the center of Fan Pier. The curving of the upper component responds to the views from within the building and acknowledges the potential obstruction to Boston Harbor views from the neighboring buildings.”

Christian Galvao

Vice President, Architectural Designer, Elkus Manfredi Architects

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WS Development

“Our culture has not changed, but this new space brings that culture front and center. People who came to see us in our old space didn’t get that. Now they do.”

Samantha David

COO, WS Development

Project Description

Corporate headquarters features high ceilings and warm wood finishes, supports teamwork, and reflects firm’s focus on social innovation.
Two-level open floor plan brings employees together in a sophisticated, welcoming “neighborhood” of natural gathering nodes.
Layout and design supports a strategic cultural transition to a more collaborative and innovative business model.

Photographer: Jasper Sanidad

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Jamestown Boston Office

“Elkus Manfredi helped us create a dynamic space that is modern, while paying homage to the historic waterfront that is our home in Boston.”

Michael Phillips

Principal and President, Jamestown LP

Project Description

Jamestown’s offices in its flagship Boston development — the 1.4 million-sf Innovation and Design Building—showcase an industrial aesthetic and historic waterfront references, and serve as a good marketing tool demonstrating to prospective tenants the building’s aesthetic and potential.
Natural materials, high ceilings, large windows, and glass-fronted rooms create a spacious team-oriented environment.
Sophisticated, comfortable workplace combines multi-use activity hubs, harvest table workstations, meeting rooms, private offices, communal kitchen, and reception.

Photography: Jasper Sanidad, Jamestown LP

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The Stanley Building at the Broad Institute

Project Description

This 374,000-sf expansion is the second building on the Broad campus and more than doubles the genomic research institute’s original size with 14 new floors of laboratory, vivarium, and administrative space.
The building’s infrastructure is designed to accommodate changes in research and methodology, including 30,000-sf large floors with few columns for lab and support space, with 15-ft floor heights allowing plug-and-play ventilation and lab utilities delivery from the ceiling.
For this fast-track project, an integrated project team, including the development manager, construction manager, owner and user groups, was central to its success.

Photographer: Peter Vanderwarker

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Boston Landing

Project Description

This 14-acre development in Brighton is Boston’s new health and wellness district and is anchored by New Balance’s five-story, 250,000-sf headquarters.
The full program includes a new ice arena for the Boston Bruins, the Boston Celtics training facility, 650,000-square feet of office and laboratory space, a residential tower, a 455,000-square foot professional track and training center, a performance venue, a hotel, retail and restaurant space throughout the 1.4 acres of public open space.

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Boston Art

“Elkus Manfredi took on a challenging project in working with Boston Art to design our space. The usage of our interior is so unique and atypical. The idea is that when people come into our space, we want them to imagine their new space, and we ask them to help us curate what art acquisitions would best benefit them. The big ‘aha’ moment occurred to the Elkus Manfredi team when they realized that we don’t want to be a clean white cube like so many other art galleries. We are more of a working studio. As such, you can see the massive art storage racks, not hidden but front and center, just like you would see if you were paying a visit to an artist studio. We also collaborated on the idea that there should be minimal color in our furnishings, leaving it for the art to do the talking! The overall design intent is hip, industrial chic, and very much in line with the style of the architecture of the building.”

Jon Kirby

President, Boston Art

Project Description

This art consultancy’s new headquarters is housed in The Innovation and Design Building and supports collaborative consultant/client curation process.
Efficient, sophisticated hybrid workspace combines offices, gallery, open art storage, workstations, meeting, and studio space.
Open floor plan, clear sightlines, and glass walls maximize the sense of spaciousness.

Photographer: Eric Laignel

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