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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”.

Photography © Eric Laignel

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Texas Medical Center — Helix Park BioResearch Campus

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- 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 Vargas

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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, 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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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