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AEW Capital Management

AEW Capital Management

Boston
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
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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Roche Diagnostics

Roche Diagnostics

Boston
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 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

Mintz

Boston
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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Servier Pharmaceuticals

Servier Pharmaceuticals

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Servier Pharmaceuticals

Project Description

  • Servier’s new 14,000-sf workplace is the first U.S. location for the French pharmaceutical firm.
  • Located at 200 Pier 4 Boulevard in Boston’s Seaport, the 70-person headquarters is designed without any private offices; rather, it combines a flexible workspace that provides a sense of connection.
  • Bright and open, the colorful, inviting space incorporates a range of small team collaboration spaces and a central conference room paired with informal breakout spaces.
  • Implemented systems to accommodate data security.

 

Photography: Adrian Wilson

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Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Publicis Groupe

Project Information

  • 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

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
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Citizens Bank Corporate Campus

Citizens Bank Corporate Campus

Johnston, Rhode Island
Client: Citizens Bank

Project Description

  • 123-acre activity-based campus design convenes 3,000 employees from disparate location into a unified complex that supports a diverse range of private and collaborative work environments.
  • Complex consists of an 800-seat contact center, two four-story office wings, and an amenities building, all joined by a central connector building/main entrance.
  • A comprehensive graphics program brands both the corporate buildings as well as the campus with bold, eye-catching displays featuring core Citizens’ messaging.
  • Sustainability highlights include high-efficiency energy and lighting systems throughout the campus, composting and waste oil recovery system in the cafeteria, and a centralized waste-processing program to handle recycling and trash.

Photographer: Evan Joseph

rooflines reminiscent of barns
Technology bar at Citizens Bank Corporate Campus
connector hallway at Citizens Bank Corporate Campus
office areas at Citizens Bank Corporate Campus
Cafeteria at Citizens Bank Corporate Campus
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Charles River Associates Chicago

Charles River Associates Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
Client: Charles River Associates

Project Description

  • 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
employees sit by window in office cafe
blue writable wall in office area
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Equinox Fitness Center at One Seaport Square

Equinox Fitness Center at One Seaport Square

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Equinox

Project Description

  • This luxury health and fitness lifestyle club occupies 35,000-square feet in the podium of The Benjamin.
  • Designers created a monumental staircase to connect ground-level reception/retail areas with members-only lounge, flexible work areas, and fitness spaces on level three.
  • Boutique design blurs the lines between live/work/play and reflects a modern sensibility that is “globally informed, yet locally grounded.”

Photographer: Andrew Bordwin