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Texas Medical Center — Helix Park BioResearch Campus

Project Description

- Elkus Manfredi Architects are the master planners of Texas Medical Center (TMC) Helix Park. The master plan envisions a mixed-use campus environment arrayed along Helix Gardens, a landscaped park in the form of DNA’s double helix. The master plan is anchored by two key initial buildings — the TMC³ Collaborative Building and One Dynamic, both designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects.
- Working with the founding institutions — TMC, Texas A&M, UTHealth, and MD Anderson Cancer Center — Elkus Manfredi has completed a campus plan that includes institutional research facilities for each of the founding institutions within an ecosystem of biopharmaceuticals, big data, venture capital, medical device, and bioscience startups, incubators, and accelerators.
- The campus is planned for 37 acres and calls for 6.5 million square feet of a new integrated mix of uses including institutional and commercial research, a hotel and conference center, apartments, and restaurants.
- All the buildings of TMC Helix Park are or will be designed to achieve LEED-CS Gold.

Photography by Joe Aker, Robert Benson and Mariella & Luis Vargus

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TMC3 Collaborative Building

Project Description

Elkus Manfredi Architects are the master planners of Texas Medical Center (TMC) Helix Park. The first building and cornerstone is the TMC³ Collaborative Building which is a role model for the cross-disciplinary collaboration required by today’s science.
The building is designed to accommodate three research institutions working in interdisciplinary teams and cross-pollinating with industry partners to accelerate translational therapies from academic science to commercialization. The founding partners are TMC, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas A&M, UT Health, and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
At 260,000 square feet, the building features four floors plus a fifth-floor penthouse, and includes laboratory, office, conference, and retail space, as well as a fixed-seat lecture hall and a four-story central atrium public space utilized for events and presentations.
The atrium is designed with a series of stairs and glass walls along labs to create maximum transparency and help foster interaction among the founding institutions and industry research teams.
In addition to research spaces, Elkus Manfredi also designed the interiors of marketing and executive suites for TMC and the research showcase for the Nobel Prize-winning James P. Allison Institute.

Photography by Joe Aker, Robert Benson and Eric Laignel.

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Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus

Project Description

Elkus Manfredi Architects collaborated with Children’s National Hospital to develop a 11.85-acre research and clinical campus at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center site.
The Phase I part of the project includes the renovation of four existing buildings for a total of 150,000 square feet of research and translational science, a 30,000-square-foot outpatient clinic, a new convocation center, and a 970-space parking structure.
As an additional catalyst for collaboration, there is a shared 7,000-square-foot amenity and event floor that opens to a roofdeck.

Photography by Halkin Mason

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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 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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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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The Eli and Edythe L Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

“This building provides the extraordinary research community across Boston with a remarkable space for scientific collaboration and discovery. It also represents a deep commitment to Kendall Square and Cambridge, and the community that has nurtured us over the past decade.”

Dr. Eric Lander

President and Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Project Description

Created by a collaboration among MIT, Harvard, and the Harvard affiliated hospitals, the Broad Institute features design that facilitates interaction among the most gifted thinkers of our time, accommodating the research practices of today and anticipating the research ventures of tomorrow.
The building is open and flexible, quickly adapting to changing research needs in a state-of-the-art environment where life science researchers can think, investigate, and create.
The building is designed for high-hazard urban research with capacity in infrastructure to accommodate diverse demands.

Photographer: Anton Grassl / Esto

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Pfizer at Six Ten Main/MIT

Project Description

Designed for optimum flexibility, this 597,000-sf, two-building research and development campus provides new laboratories and offices for Pfizer and further enriches Kendall Square’s world-leading life science cluster.
With a program that includes street-level retail, offices, and laboratory/research facilities, the campus also provides parking for 650 cars on three levels below-grade.
Pfizer’s research facilities fill the seven-story South Building and most of the North Building, accommodating the company’s neuroscience, cardiovascular, metabolic, BTX, and endocrine disease research units.
Other tenants include CRISPR Therapeutics, LabCentral, KSQ Therapeutics, Bayer LifeHub Boston, Casebia Therapeutics, and Pfizer’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation.

Photographer: Chuck Choi

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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 Extraction Laboratory

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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