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Roche Diagnostics

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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University of Southern Maine – Portland Commons Residence Hall and Career & Student Success Center

Project Description

Career and Student Success Center (CSSC) at University of Southern Maine, designed to LEED-Silver certification with a hybrid steel and mass timber structural system, will create a new, vibrant heart of the Portland campus.
The CSSC will include space for dining, student organizations, a university store, a Diversity center and veterans and career services.
As the first-ever student housing on the Portland campus, the Commons will add 585 beds for undergraduates in their upper-class years and graduate students. Designed to achieve Passive House sustainability certification, the two wings of the building embrace a central courtyard with common areas on the ground floor that spill out onto the street, providing visual interest and activity along a bustling entry point to campus.

Renderings by Elkus Manfredi Architects

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University of Chicago Woodlawn Residential and Dining Commons

Project Description

The Woodlawn Residential and Dining Commons provides 1,298 students with an on-campus home; contributing to the University’s goal of 75 percent of undergraduates living on campus.
The residential program includes eleven houses with 118 residents per house, each house accommodating 30 percent of students in singles, 30 percent in doubles, and 40 percent in four-bedroom apartments.
The floor plans of each house are configured to promote collegiality within the house and interaction between upperclassmen in apartments and underclassmen in the single and double accommodations.
The Commons offers state-of-the-art amenities including academic study spaces, social spaces, and a vibrant dining common with capacity for 650 students.

Photographer: Brad Feinknopf

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The St. Regis Residences, Boston

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Overlooking Boston Harbor, the design of the twisting sculptural form of the St. Regis Residences, Boston, celebrates the forces of the sea and evokes the billowing sails of ships plying the harbor.
The 22-story building in Boston’s Seaport District is designed for LEED Silver certification with 114 condominiums, 10,000 square feet of restaurant space, and an underground garage.
A large open-air deck at ground level wraps around the building for public enjoyment, completing another segment of Boston’s Harborwalk.

Renderings: Neoscape and Elkus Manfredi Architects

Street level view of St. Regis Residences, Boston

Amenity Loung at the St. Regis Residences, Boston

Woman in bathingsuit at pool at the St. Regis Residences, Boston

View from inside the St. Regis Residences, Boston

View of St. Regis Residences, Boston, from B Street

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The Paramount at Miami Worldcenter

Project Information

The Paramount is a LEED Silver-certified residential tower located at the heart of the vibrant mixed-use Miami Worldcenter, a 27-acre development master planned by Elkus Manfredi in downtown Miami, which is also certified LEED Silver.
The soaring curvilinear glass tower offers 570 residential units over 55 floors.
Its nine-story podium includes publicly accessible world-class retail and structured parking. A rooftop garden and pool deck, soccer pitch, and children’s play area is among the amenities available to residents.

Photos: PARAMOUNT Miami Worldcenter team and affiliates, © Kevin Vildósola / ODP Architecture and Design

View of pool looking up at The Paramount at Miami Worldcenter

View over the rooftop pool of the Miami skyline from The Paramount at Miami Worldcenter

Lobby at The Paramount Miamia Worldcenter

Interior living space at The Paramount Miami Worldcenter

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White Elephant Palm Beach

Project Description

The comprehensive design for this reimagined historic property introduces a new aesthetic to Palm Beach: Effortlessly refined, gracious with a touch of wit, and filled with 20th and 21st-century original artwork curated especially for the White Elephant Palm Beach.
As the new sister hotel to New England Development’s White Elephant Nantucket, this Palm Beach destination is a contemporary interpretation of Mediterranean revival architecture that supports the same meticulous standard of service for its sophisticated global guests.
Built in the 1920s and designated a historic landmark in 1980, designers reimagined the venerable structure to create a gracious four-story hotel with 13 rooms and 19 suites.
Black-and-white awnings and black trim against a fresh white stucco finish highlight the classic architecture while lending a contemporary look to the structure.
Interiors are infused with layered finishes and patterns, custom-made furniture, and historic details all set against a palette of soft warm and cool neutrals that capture the quality of Palm Beach light.

Photography: Chi-Thien Nguyen/Elkus Manfredi Architects

Breakfast area in the gallery of White Elephant Palm Beach with artwork by Bernhard Buhmann flanking a historic fireplace

A two-room suite with a seating area in forground and behind pocket-sliding doors a bedroom

new pool in the courtyard of White Elephant Palm Beach incorporates two historic wing walls as privacy screens for sunbathers

A guest room's outdoor space that faces the courtyard features historic walls with scalloped details and the discrete glass additions to the top that bring them up to code

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401 Park Repositioning

Project Description

Opened in 1928, the 1M-square-foot Sears Roebuck & Co. store, warehouse, and distribution center was a retail powerhouse until Sears abandoned the building in 1988.
Now called 401 Park, the historic landmark is once again a neighborhood cornerstone, paying homage to the Fenway’s legacy while serving as a dynamic day/night destination for visitors, workers, and residents.
The mixed-use hub links Boston’s Fenway and Longwood Medical neighborhoods by activating common areas on the garage level, ground-floor lobby, and second-floor atria and lobby as well as the exterior realm.
Design solutions include creating a new social entry space, stripping interiors to reveal the building’s authentic character, creating a custom railing with Boston-centric names and places, creating a space for the 25,000-sf Time Out Market food hall, and introducing public art inside and out.

Photos: © Robert Benson and Connie Zhou

Architects created a grand atrium at 401 Park but cutting away sections of floor plate and revealing the building's industrial character

The three-level iron staircase leads from the ground-floor lobby up to the second level lobby with two office atria, or down to underground parking.

An extension of the second level lobby overlooks the constant activity in Time Out Market, as does the office space on the right-hand side.

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One Broadway Lobby

Project Description

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.

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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Auerbach Center at Boston Landing

Project Description

Named for the legendary Celtics coach, the 70,000-sf Auerbach Center at Boston Landing dramatically cantilevers toward a major commuter highway atop a mixed-use building that is elegantly massed as a skewed stack of three two-story elements.
Lighting, materials, and color considerations purposefully chosen to help simulate game-day experiences; the practice courts feature the team’s signature red oak parquet flooring.
Highlights include a sports science lab, training/recovery facilities, a therapeutic floatation tank, and a medical room with bone-imaging capability. Court-embedded “force-and-motion” floor plates collect data on player performance.

view of weight room looking into courts at Celtics' practice facility

view from office perch over practice courts

locker room at Celtics' practice facility

spa facilities at Celtics' practice facility

detail of stacked massing for Auerbach Center

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University of Massachusetts Boston Student Residence Hall and Dining Commons

Project Description

263,000-square-foot, certified-LEED-NC Gold facility comprised of two buildings framing a new pedestrian path leading into the heart of the school’s Columbia Point campus.
Including 1,077 beds, this first residence hall in the campus’ history offers a diverse mix of room types organized around distinct living communities.
The facility also accommodates several multi-purpose spaces, conference rooms for group study, administrative offices, and a 500-seat dining hall.

Photographer: Robert Benson and Bruce T. Martin (dorm room)