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Draper

Draper

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Client: Draper

Together with Elkus Manfredi, we are creating the next generation of Draper — collaborative, collegial, entrepreneurial, fostering open innovation while maintaining strict security protocols demanded by our work.”

Elizabeth Mora

Chief Administrative Officer, Vice President of Finance and Administration

Project Description

  • Reinvented the 456,055-square-foot headquarters—organized around a new steel and glass atrium—to create a more open work environment ripe for spontaneous exchanges.
  • The atrium transforms a previously outdoor plaza into a vibrant space that fosters collaboration and exploration both with a public side and an employee-only side.
  • Interior executive area features a 4:1 ratio of open workstations to private offices, all of which are glass-fronted to reduce hierarchy and maintain transparency across all departments.
  • Daylight reaches deep into all work areas, and pops of bright color infuse the offices with vitality.

Photographer: Jasper Sanidad, Andrew Bordwin, and Eric Laignel

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Award

Illuminating Engineering Society

Boston and Rhode Island Section

The Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Lighting Design

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Pier 4

Pier 4

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Tishman Speyer Properties

Project Description

  • Mixed use office building with 20,000 square feet of rentable retail space on the ground floor and 367,400 square feet of rentable, first-class office space on the upper 12 floors..
  • Ground floor activated with restaurants, cafes, shops, and a pass-through lobby that connects to the public Harborwalk.
  • Penthouse level includes a terrace on the northwest side of the building overlooking Boston Harbor and the city skyline.
  • The use of a non-interlocking curtainwall marks an architectural first in Boston, allowing each façade to interact with its neighbors.

Photographer: Magda Biernat

Team Member Spotlight

Each massing move and its correspondent façade responds to the surrounding exterior site elements. The most visible, the East façade, expresses dynamic, meandering movement that is achieved by the shifting of paired floors. These moves have been carefully studied to avoid any interlocking of the intersecting floors.”

Christian Galvao

Vice President, Architectural Designer, Elkus Manfredi Architects

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Samuels & Associates Headquarters

Samuels & Associates Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Samuels & Associates

Project Description

  • 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

side table detail with plant in vase
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New Balance Headquarters

New Balance Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: NB Development Group, LLC

The headquarters is a space where our associates can thrive and the brand can continue to grow, fulfilling its promise by pushing forward to deliver the best in innovative footwear and apparel.”

Jim Davis

CEO, New Balance

Project Description

  • The 250,000-sf headquarters anchors a new 14-acre health and wellness district in Boston Landing.
  • The headquarters is the first LEED v2009 CS Platinum project in U.S. to achieve all Indoor Environmental Quality credits and third worldwide.
  • The new workplace features flexible, open, non-hierarchical workspace, large employee cafeteria, café, showrooms, and a community park.

Photographer: Robert Benson (exteriors), Andrew Bordwin (interiors)

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TEAM MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

The once underutilized and fractured neighborhood has become a new cohesive health and wellness district for the City of Boston, thanks to the benchmarking design of the new home for New Balance.”

Hal Munger AIA, LEED AP

Architect, Elkus Manfredi Architects

New Balance HQ Cafeteria
New Balance HQ Cafe
New Balance HQ Timeline
New Balance HQ Entry Lawn
New Balance HQ night
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Potamus Trading

Potamus Trading

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Potamus Trading LLC

Project Description

  • Headquarter interiors for entrepreneurial high-tech financial services firm is set on Boston Harbor.
  • Space streamlines workflow, flexes with firm growth, and works as a magnet for top talent.
  • Staff have quick access to trading floor from every area; kitchen supports informal collaboration/client entertaining; reception desk doubles as DJ booth; acoustically separate gaming room allows staff to unwind after markets close.

Photographer: Garrett Roland, Jasper Sanidad

Potamus Trading Reception DJ Party
Potamus Trading Phone Room
Potamus Trading Graffiti Conference
Potamus Trading Sitting Area Private Office
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New York Genome Center

New York Genome Center

New York, New York
Client: New York Genome Center

Project Description

  • The New York Genome Center is the headquarters for an independent nonprofit consortium representing 18 world-class research institutions.
  • This 150,000-sf headquarters provides genomic sequencing laboratories and research facilities on seven floors of an existing building, allowing for future expansion. Amenities include a training center, 190-seat auditorium, and 100-seat café.
  • Labs, offices, and common areas feature demountable partitions, moveable lab furniture, and interchangeable plug-and-play utility systems for easy reconfiguration.

Photographer: David Joseph

New York Genome Center Auditorium
New York Genome Center Open Meeting
New York Genome Center Extraction Laboratory
New York Genome Center Sequencing Lab
New York Genome Center stair
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Global Headquarters

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Global Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: The Fallon Company, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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

TEAM MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

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

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Cafeteria
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Lpunge
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Lab 2
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Laboratory
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WS Development

WS Development

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Client: 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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WS Development Stairs in Kitchen
WS Development Kitchen
WS Development Conference Room
WS Development private offices
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Jamestown Boston Office

Jamestown Boston Office

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Jamestown LP

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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Jamestown Offices Table
Jamestown Offices Private
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Boston Art

Boston Art

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: 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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Boston Art Reception
Boston Art Kitchen Pantry
Boston Art Metal Sculpture
Boston Art Open Office Work stations
Boston Art View Towards Team