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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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Stockton University

Project Description

The nearly 216,500-square-foot, 533-bed residence hall sits along Atlantic City’s iconic boardwalk and offers ground floor retail uses and multiple outdoor amenity spaces for students.
The entire site is raised above the boardwalk level by two feet and includes ample rain gardens, reducing the impact of potential storm surge and increased rainfall due to climate change.
The residence hall also features a highly sustainable building envelope with a thermally broken green girt system and high-performance glass, both of which reduce the overall energy load on the building.
First floor amenities include a living room, fitness center, study rooms, lounge, and a monumental stair leading to a second floor common area. The apartment-style dorms on floors two through five include units from studios to six beds.

Photos © Tim Dinofa

Looking out to courtyard from common room

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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.

Photographer: © Robert Benson

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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Citizens Bank Corporate Campus

Project Description

123-acre activity-based campus design convenes 3,000 employees from disparate location into a unified complex that supports a diverse range of private and collaborative work environments.
Complex consists of an 800-seat contact center, two four-story office wings, and an amenities building, all joined by a central connector building/main entrance.
A comprehensive graphics program brands both the corporate buildings as well as the campus with bold, eye-catching displays featuring core Citizens’ messaging.
Sustainability highlights include high-efficiency energy and lighting systems throughout the campus, composting and waste oil recovery system in the cafeteria, and a centralized waste-processing program to handle recycling and trash.

Photographer: Evan Joseph

Technology bar at Citizens Bank Corporate Campus

connector hallway at Citizens Bank Corporate Campus

office areas at Citizens Bank Corporate Campus

Cafeteria at Citizens Bank Corporate Campus

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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)

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One Seaport

Project Description

Two separate, interactive mixed-use buildings covering two city blocks, each building with a three-story base of retail, restaurant, and entertainment venues.
Atop the two podia are two 22-story residential towers offering 832 apartments, including nearly 100 “innovation units.”
Generous amenities include a 24-hour concierge, underground parking, bicycle storage, and an 8,000-square-foot common space, a business center, fitness center, and a play area for pets.
Provides 24/7, pedestrian-friendly street life to this rapidly growing neighborhood.

Photographer: Andrew Bordwin (interiors) and Mark Flannery (exteriors)

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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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Emerson College — Two Boylston Place & Dining Center

Project Description

18-story, 375-bed residence hall offers suites, single, double, and triple student residences in the heart of the college’s growing campus in Boston’s historic Theatre District.
Features five themed, destination common rooms that address the urban campus’s need for indoor and outdoor communal student spaces.
Totaling 18,000 square feet and seating 550, the Dining Center’s two distinct levels are connected by a grand open staircase.
Demonstrates a creative reinvention/restoration of three long-underutilized retail spaces on the College’s Theatre District campus.
Certified LEED-NC Gold while preserving and incorporating the façade of an historic Ancient Landmark Building into the new structure.

Photographer: Peter Vanderwarker

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Pier 4

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

“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