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Financial Services Firm

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The new 7,000-sf financial services office is designed with a refined residential feel.
The home-inspired floor plan features a welcoming foyer and reception area, a living room, and a fully-equipped residential kitchen that together form the social heart of the office.
Ten private offices, a boardroom, and two meeting rooms, all with custom-designed millwork storefronts, wrap around the central hospitality area, each with expansive city views.
Two oversized private spa-style restrooms – one for staff and the other for guests – sit side by side with a set of pocket doors between them.

Photography © Eric Laignel

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Goulston & Storrs

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Consolidation and relocation of the offices of law firm Goulston & Storrs to occupy 100,000 square feet on four floors at One Post Office Square.
The space features a welcoming reception/co-working space exposing three sides of the building for access to the spectacular views and private outdoor deck overlooking Post Office Square and the Boston Harbor.
The new law firm prototype embraces single-size attorney offices with strategically-placed glass walls for attorney privacy while allowing daylight penetration into the floor plate.

Photography © Connie Zhou

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University of Michigan- Wolverine Village Phase 1

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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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Lyrik Back Bay

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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

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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

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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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Third Rock Ventures

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Third Rock Ventures, a leading healthcare venture capital firm, integrates scientific and medical innovation with business and operational acumen to build sustainable companies that are pioneering break-through medicines helping people all over the world.
The design of Third Rock Venture’s new home seamlessly blends the story of their former historic Boston Back Bay office with the modern efficiency and industrial character of their new office at 201 Brookline Avenue.
Designers used multiple strategies to infuse the new space with a sense of the company’s origins, creating layers that add deeper dimension to the building’s contemporary proportions and materials using subtle cues to the past.
Special features of the project include a 50-foot-long outdoor deck offering employees views of Fenway Park, an airy blue employee café with a family farm table, collaborative office neighborhoods, and a Patient Impact Wall that celebrates the patients and families whose lives are transformed by the companies Third Rock Ventures has created.

Photography © Evan Joseph

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Nuro Headquarters

“Elkus Manfredi possesses the rare ability to swiftly immerse themselves in a brand’s culture while taking hold of the process and effectively guiding their clients. Throughout the entire process, employee engagement and change management were not just critical, but principle to the journey, resulting in an exciting and engaging process.”

Tim Bergen

Former Head of Workplace & Real Estate, Nuro

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Named as one of “The 10 Most Innovative Companies” in the robotics industry by Fast Company, Nuro selected Elkus Manfredi Architects to design a phased expansion of its Silicon Valley workplace.
The new headquarters needed to serve as a tool for recruiting, accommodating a variety of individual and collaborative work styles, cultivating cross-functional partnerships and learning, and promoting employee wellness.
Elkus Manfredi transformed 165,000 square feet of cavernous warehouse space into a human-scaled office, fostering connection, choice, and spontaneous interaction.
The concept of a ring road designed for both people and Nuro’s autonomous vehicles separates the office’s inner loop and outer loop and divides the interior into “neighborhoods”.

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Suffolk Headquarters

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Reinvention of Boston headquarters, transforming it into a hard-working tool that affirms Suffolk’s commitment to the city and neighborhood.
Conference rooms and private offices were replaced with open workspaces to foster collaboration.
Amenities include a cafeteria serving freshly prepared meals plus a fitness center, tele-med room, hair salon, nail salon, dry cleaning, outdoor spaces, and signature stadium presentation space that can also be used by the surrounding Roxbury community and non-profit organizations.

Photography: Eric Laignel

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TMC³ Collaborative Building

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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.