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Lyrik Back Bay

Lyrik Back Bay

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Samuels & Associates

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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Simmons University — One Simmons

Simmons University — One Simmons

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Simmons University

Project Description

  • In response to Simmons University’s Strategy 2022 initiative, Simmons and Elkus Manfredi developed a set of priorities and recommendations for campus development with the goal of consolidating Simmons’ residential and academic facilities into one location.
  • Elkus Manfredi’s approach was to understand the strategic plan of the institution, analyze existing assets and resources, and develop a framework for renovation and new construction that would support the strategic vision.
  • This strategic partnership with the University has resulted in multiple renovation projects to existing academic and administrative facilities and library spaces, the new 400,000-sf 1,100-bed Living and Learning Center, plus the addition of a new state-of-the-art science center.

 

Rendering credit: Elkus Manfredi Architects

Photographers: Peter Vanderwarker, Connie Zhou, and Mikayla Galvin

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Rutgers University — Honors College

Rutgers University — Honors College

New Brunswick, New Jersey
Client: Rutgers University, New Brunswick Development Corporation

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

Award

U.S. Green Building Council — New Jersey

Innovative School Project of the Year (as part of the College Avenue Redevelopment Initiative)

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New England Institute of Technology — Meltzer Family Residence Hall

New England Institute of Technology — Meltzer Family Residence Hall

East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Client: New England Institute of Technology

Project Description

  • A commuter school for its first 78 years, New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) engaged Elkus Manfredi to design its first-ever residence hall on the East Greenwich campus.
  • The new 416-bed, 123,460-sf building anchors one end of what will become a main campus quadrangle, fostering a greater sense of community.
  • The new residence hall offers a mixture of unit types including traditional single- and double-occupancy rooms and semi-suites. Common areas include student lounges, study rooms, and flexible spaces for multi-purpose use. The ground floor contains an administrative suite for NEIT staff, as well as two staff apartments.
  • While contemporary, the overall form and materiality of the building are rooted in traditional New England collegiate architecture and feature a façade of brick and metal paneling, with large windows in student rooms and on the ground floor.

Photographer: Gustav Hoiland

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Emmanuel College- St. Julie Residence Hall

Emmanuel College- St. Julie Residence Hall

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Emmanuel College

Project Description

  • Situated at the gateway to the Longwood Medical Area, the 267,500-sf building rises 18 stories and presents a six-story wing along Brookline Avenue animated by glimpses of student life on the ground floor, a convenience store, and a streetside plaza that serves as a central gathering place for residents. The first floor includes student lounges, group study rooms, an all-purpose media center, a fitness center, and a dance studio, all open to the entire Emmanuel community.
  • Primarily catering to upper class students, the building offers contemporary apartment-style living spaces with views of the Fenway and downtown Boston. Most are four-person suites – two-bedroom, two-bath units with a kitchen and living room – as well as some studio apartments.
  • The new building is a part of the Institutional Master Plan and will help the College’s initiative to accommodate undergraduate growth to 2,200 students.
  • The project is certified LEED-NC Gold.

Photographers: Peter Vanderwarker and Bruce T. Martin

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Northeastern University — LightView Student Apartments

Northeastern University — LightView Student Apartments

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: American Campus Communities, Northeastern University

Project Description

  • Totaling approximately 310,000 square feet, this new residence hall contains 800 beds in 207 apartment units, plus student amenities and first-floor retail space that animates the streetscape and connects the internal life of the campus to the public realm.
  • Along Columbus Avenue, the building rises eight stories, consistent with the heights of existing buildings along the street. Stepping back, the eastern half of the building toward Tremont Street rises 20 stories and the western portion 16 stories.
  • When viewed from both Columbus Avenue and Tremont Street, the taller portions of the building have a slender profile.
  • This project is certified LEED-NC Platinum.

Photographers: Robert Benson and Flaunt Boston LLC

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TMC³ Collaborative Building

TMC³ Collaborative Building

Houston
Client: Texas Medical Center, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, UT Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center

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, 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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One65 Main Residences

One65 Main Residences

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Client: MIT Investment Management Company

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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Harvard University — Soldiers Field Park

Harvard University — Soldiers Field Park

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Harvard University

Project Description

  • The Soldiers Field Park complex is a prominent component of Harvard University’s affiliate housing portfolio, with approximately 750 residents in 478 apartments spread across four buildings.
  • Elkus Manfredi provided planning and design services for extensive cosmetic, infrastructure, and system upgrades of the entire 1970s complex.
  • Our work reconfigured apartment layouts to meet changing tenant demographics, reprogrammed the street-level spaces to expand amenities and engage pedestrians, and redeveloped the site with improvements that connect with the surrounding and developing Allston campus.
  • The amenity program includes study rooms, conference rooms, lounge and common rooms, a fitness center, and indoor children’s playrooms.
  • All four phases are certified LEED-ID+C: Commercial Interiors Gold. The project also meets Harvard’s Healthier Building Academy’s standards and Healthcare Without Harm’s Greenhealth Approved standard.

 

Photos: © David Kurtis and Elkus Manfredi Architects

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Hood Bike Park Pavilion

Hood Bike Park Pavilion

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Catamount Management

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