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Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport

“An extraordinary team of talented, creative and dedicated individuals made this moment a reality. We happily open our doors for local Bostonians and guests far and wide, who will make Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport their new homeaway- from-home, for any and every occasion.”

Mike Jorgensen

Managing Director, Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport

Project Description

Elkus Manfredi Architects was the lead architect for the 1,054-room hotel across from the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
The hotel includes 108,000 square feet of meeting and event space, including two ballrooms, 51,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space, and an 7,000-square-foot spa.
The expansive lobby invites guests to gather and mingle, nimbly flowing from intimate nooks to the evening conviviality of thelobby bar, unfettered by walls
Designed to achieve LEED-NC Silver certification.
Elkus Manfredi collaborated with MBE architecture firms Moody Nolan and Stull & Lee on this project.

Photography: Raj Das (Photos 1–6), Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport (Photo 7) and Bruce Martin (Photo 8)

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University of Michigan- Wolverine Village Phase 1

Project Description

The University of Michigan engaged American Campus Communities (ACC) in a public-private partnership to lead the development of a new residential community that will dramatically reshape campus housing.
Working with RAMSA as design architect and architect of record, and Elkus Manfredi Architects as interior architect, the ACC team created a new residential community with five residence halls totaling approximately 2,300 student beds and a 900-seat dining facility.
The ground floors of all five buildings are dedicated to amenity and student support programs, including a communal kitchen, a laundry room, and a signature lounge designed to offer different ways for each student to take part in the community at their own comfort level.
The Wolverine Village project is the first step of a two‑phase development that will shape the next generation of student life at the University of Michigan and set the bar nationally for best‑in‑class student housing.

Rendering credit: Elkus Manfredi Architects (interiors) and RAMSA (exteriors)

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Water Street Tampa

Project Description

Elkus Manfredi created a master plan of more than 10 million square feet for a mixed-use neighborhood that is the first WELL Pre-certified Community in the world and has transformed downtown Tampa.
The mixed-use nature of the development encourages street life that is active 18 hours a day.
An active pedestrian experience is at the heart of the master plan, with one million square feet of new retail, cultural, educational, and entertainment space at street level, as well as 12.9 acres of new and enhanced park and public gathering places.
The diverse mix of residences, business, retail, and other uses will act as a magnet for talent in commerce, the arts, education, and other urban attributes.

Photography and Renderings: © Strategic Property Partners

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Lyrik Back Bay

Project Description

Samuels & Associates commissioned Elkus Manfredi Architects to transform an inhospitable stretch of highway overpass with a holistically designed mixed-use project that addresses a major rupture in Boston’s urban fabric created by the Massachusetts Turnpike and the CSX tracks. The two-tower project is the first privately developed air-rights project over the Massachusetts Turnpike since Copley Place in the 1980s.
This vital mixed-use hub consists of approximately 50,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 425,000 square feet of office space, 150,000 square feet of hotel use, as well as a below-grade parking garage with approximately 150 parking spaces.
The two towers are connected by a podium that includes restaurant and retail tenants and a two-level civic urban plaza. The plaza welcomes the public and its abundant landscaped greenery continues a tradition in Boston of integrating landscape, public space, and urban infrastructure.
The office building is certified LEED-NC Gold and WELL Core Certified Gold, and the hotel (CitizenM) is certified LEED-NC Gold.

Photographer: Bruce Martin

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Rutgers University — Honors College

Project Description

Elkus Manfredi designed the first home consisting of 540 beds for the residential Honors College on the main College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University.
This building provides dedicated residential, study, and amenity space for undergraduate Honors College students, as well as administrative offices for the Honors College dean and faculty and four faculty apartments.
All three wings of the building feature generous student lounges at ground level that look out onto the new quad, as well as a grab-and-go café, living room area with fireplace, terrace with river views, and seven distinct seminar rooms.
The project is certified LEED-NC Silver.

Photographers: Frank Villafane and Robert Benson

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One65 Main Residences

Project Description

One65 Main is a 300-unit, 412,000-square foot residential building located at the vibrant gateway to Kendall Square, “the most innovative square mile on the planet.”
The goals of this project were collaborating with Cambridge communities, contributing public space to the neighborhood, and attracting a diverse group of potential residents including students, scientists, tech innovators, and entrepreneurs.
The 24-story tower includes 63 affordable dwellings to serve Cambridge’s needs, as well as 36 ‘innovation studio’ units that were designed to support live/work tenants.
Amenity spaces include a grocery store for the neighborhood, a new pedestrian way that connects to Broad Canal, and two levels of enclosed garage parking.
The project is certified LEED BD+C Gold: New Construction.

Photography by Bruce Martin (exterior), Sinziana Velicescu/Shildan Group (exterior) and Evan Joseph (interiors)

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Hood Bike Park Pavilion

Project Description

Envisioned as a destination for the neighborhood to come, the new 22,000-square-foot Hood Bike Park Pavilion will be used as a venue for small concerts, neighborhood festivals, and farmers’ markets.
The plane of the park’s landscape was lifted and tilted to buffer the adjacent elevated highway and industrial uses.
The wood-clad bike pavilion is tucked into the landscape and houses public bicycle facilities with bike racks, a repair shop, storage lockers, restrooms, and publicly accessible showers.
On top of the pavilion is an area with tables and chairs called The Perch, which overlooks the park and the Hood stack.
Sustainable features include deep-rooted and water-seeking plants, a bioswale with salt-tolerant plants, locally sourced plants, and storm water capture on site.

Photography: © Peter Vanderwarker

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Alcott

Project Description

Located in the heart of Boston’s West End neighborhood, Alcott is a 44-story, LEED-NC Gold-certified residential tower.
The 530,000-sf project replaced the TD Garden Garage and created a one-acre public park.
With a focus on walkability in its dense urban neighborhood, Alcott creates a vital pedestrian link between North Station and the West End through the site.
The tower features 470 units – including 17 below-market-rate units – with a mix of studios and one‑ and two-bedroom apartments; more than 20,000 square feet of amenity space; 2,000 square feet of ground-floor retail; and four-story, below-grade parking structure.

Photography by Peter Vanderwarker (exteriors) and Evan Joseph (interiors)

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White Elephant Nantucket

Project Description

To celebrate the landmark hotel’s 100th anniversary, White Elephant Nantucket engaged Elkus Manfredi Architects to design a top-to-bottom transformation and renovation of the 54-room hotel and its 11 cottages.
The design draws inspiration from Nantucket—its history, the quality of its natural light, its landscape—to breathe new life into the historic buildings and immerse guests in an authentic Nantucket vacation experience.
The redesigned lobby sets the tone for relaxed elegance, and the hotel and its 11 guest cottages are filled with details that honor the colors, textures, and artistic legacy of the island.

Photography: Connie Zhou

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MassMutual

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.

Photography by Robert Benson and Bruce Martin (exteriors), and Eric Laignel (interiors)