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Emerson College — Little Building Reimagining

Emerson College — Little Building Reimagining

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Emerson College

Project Description

  • Originally constructed in 1917, the 12-story building had nine floors of office space, a two-story shopping arcade, post office, restaurants, and tunnels connecting it to the subway and neighboring theaters. Elkus Manfredi reprogrammed and reimagined the building into a mixed-use student residence for 750 students.
  • The repositioning effort included a major façade renovation and restoration that employed laser scanning and digital reconstructions, infill of the lightwells to create upper-story common rooms, and improvements for structural and MEP building systems.
  • This cornerstone of Emerson’s campus is home to 1,054 students and offers additional instructional and collaboration space as well as ground floor retail.

 

Photographer: Robert Benson

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Roche Diagnostics

Roche Diagnostics

Boston
Client: Roche Pharmaceuticals

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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Mintz

Mintz

Boston
Client: Mintz Levin

Project Information

  • Operational efficiency for today’s high-powered law practice and the flexibility to evolve as business needs evolve.
  • Advanced ergonomics and systems for lighting and air quality maximize comfort; adjacencies boost efficiency; and varied meeting spaces support different collaborative needs.
  • Through a co-creation process, Mintz employees from all levels had a voice in both programming and the furniture and design-element selection process.

Photography © Connie Zhou

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[D]Arc Lighting Awards

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

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

Portland, Maine
Client: Capstone Development Partners, University of Southern Maine

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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Servier Pharmaceuticals

Servier Pharmaceuticals

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: 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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WHOOP Headquarters

WHOOP Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: WHOOP

Project Information

  • A clean, modern, minimal aesthetic for this workplace interior design projects the tech-company’s entrepreneurial energy. Highly transparent workspaces puts the company’s commitment to technology and fitness on display.
  • The flexible, high-tech workspace includes a variety of formal and informal spaces for collaboration and entertaining clients as well as workstations for developing and testing its award-winning, wearable fitness tracker.
  • Building on the functionality and success of the original workplace finished in 2018, Elkus Manfredi designed an expansion in 2020 to add additional workspace as well as amenity spaces for clients and employees.

Photography © Andrew Bordwin

View from lobby looking into exercise room
Boardroom at WHOOP
A workstation looking into a glass-walled meeting room
Looking over a device display case into an exercise room
Cafe space in WHOOP headquarters
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White Elephant Palm Beach

White Elephant Palm Beach

Palm Beach, Florida
Client: New England Development

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

Seating area in the lobby parlor
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

401 Park Repositioning

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Samuels & Associates

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

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The Architect’s Newspaper

Best of Year Winner – Building Renovation

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Boston Society of Architects/AIA

Award for Interior Architecture and Design

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International Interior Design Association (IIDA)

Finalist — Interior Design Competition
(Public Spaces & Commercial Lobbies category)

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Interior Design magazine

Best of Year Winner – Environmental Branding & Graphics

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Building Design & Construction magazine

Silver Winner – Reconstruction Awards

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Retrofit magazine

First Place — Mixed Use, Metamorphosis Awards

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IDA Design Awards

Silver Winner — Architecture Renovation

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Architecture Masterprize

Winner – Restoration & Renovation

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BOMA Boston TOBY & Industry Awards

Renovated Building Winner

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Society of British & International Interior Design

Design Excellence Awards Finalist – Public Space Design

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Architizer

A+ Awards Finalist – Architecture & Renovation

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Boston Society of Landscape Architects

Design Honor Award

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IIDA New England

Winner – Building Repositioning/ Building Amenities

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Chicago Athenaeum
American Architecture Awards

A Commercial Winner

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BOMA International

Renovated Building Winner

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Boston Preservation Alliance

Preservation Achievement Award & Fan Favorite

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Chicago Athenaeum
International Architecture Awards

Honorable Mention

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Society of American Registered Architects (SARA)

National Design Award of Honor

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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.
Stairwell in atrium at 401 Park
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.
The project's one-acre community park—"The Green"—is a transformed parking lot. A green oasis that welcomes the public, artist Nicole Eisenman's playful outdoor sculpture, "Sketch for a Fountain," anchors a corner, while Time Out Market's outdoor terrace enlivens the building edge.
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Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe

Boston, Massachusetts
Client: Publicis Groupe

Project Information

  • Publicis Groupe’s new 215,000-sf workplace was co-created with its 1,500 employees and our designers to reflect the identities and cultures of several different companies coming together for the first time.
  • The result is a flexible, 100% activity-based workplace that supports employee choice of where and how to work, while consistent floor plans unify the entire workplace.
  • Every floor features a joy space—an informal café on each floor that reflects the brand’s culture and preferences and provides an inviting space to collaborate, relax, and find inspiration.
  • Common amenity spaces include a grand two-story amphitheater, a makers lab, a conference center with reconfigurable walls, and a spacious top-floor café with a rooftop terrace for employees to come together for a meal, meeting, or functions.

Photography © Eric Laignel

A two-story amphitheatre at Publicis Groups allows for all-staff meetings and presentations
Top-floor communal cafe space at Publicis Groupe
Touch-down work setting for casual meetings or brainstorming with views of Post Office Square
Work neighborhood with variety of work stations for employees to choose from
Work terrace on Level 10 at Publicis Groupe in Boston
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Aetna

Aetna

Wellesley, Massachusetts
Client: Aetna

Project Information

  • The new 80,000-sf office space supports the health company’s marketing and communications team with an inspiring, natural light-filled, collaborative environment.
  • Designers applied a “resi-mercial” approach to create a space that integrates the comfort of a modern residential aesthetic into highly specific and sophisticated work functions.
  • Designed with staff health and wellness in mind, every space type is ergonomically designed, from meeting rooms and individual offices to the wide range of informal spaces.
  • The spacious café filled with natural light helps to foster a sense of one cohesive community, allowing all staff to spontaneously connect and collaborate with each other.

Photography © Connie Zhou

Work stations with custom millwork lattice
A seating area for casual meetings in the pink lounge
Seating area in communal cafe
Seating detail in cafe