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One65 Main Residences

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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Hood Bike Park

Project Description

Envisioned as a destination for the neighborhood to come, the new 22,000-square-foot Hood Bike Park 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.

Photos: © Peter Vanderwarker

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Alcott

Project Description

Located in the heart of Boston’s West End neighborhood, Alcott is a 44-story, LEED-NC Gold-certified residential tower.
The 530,000-sf project replaced the TD Garden Garage and created a one-acre public park.
With a focus on walkability in its dense urban neighborhood, Alcott creates a vital pedestrian link between North Station and the West End through the site.
The tower features 470 units – including 17 below-market-rate units – with a mix of studios and one‑ and two-bedroom apartments; more than 20,000 square feet of amenity space; 2,000 square feet of ground-floor retail; and four-story, below-grade parking structure.

Photography by Peter Vanderwarker (exteriors) and Evan Joseph (interiors)

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White Elephant Nantucket

Project Description

To celebrate the landmark hotel’s 100th anniversary, White Elephant Nantucket engaged Elkus Manfredi Architects to design a top-to-bottom transformation and renovation of the 54-room hotel and its 11 cottages.
The design draws inspiration from Nantucket—its history, the quality of its natural light, its landscape—to breathe new life into the historic buildings and immerse guests in an authentic Nantucket vacation experience.
The redesigned lobby sets the tone for relaxed elegance, and the hotel and its 11 guest cottages are filled with details that honor the colors, textures, and artistic legacy of the island.

Photography: Connie Zhou

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MassMutual

Project Description

With a curvilinear exterior and tiered set-backs, this new 17-story building establishes a uniquely elegant presence on Fan Pier— a distinctive glass façade configured in a pattern of contrasting angles, accentuating the building’s curvature and harmonizing with the waterfront neighborhood.
The interior provides human-centered design for nearly 1,000 associates in an activity-based work environment (ABW) with flexible, inclusive work areas that are fully supportive of employee health and wellness.
The building features a series of employee-focused amenities, including two outdoor terraces; a café serving healthy, freshly prepared food options; a barista bar; and a large, multipurpose collaboration and training space.
Spaces are organized around neighborhoods, which offer a robust variety of space and furniture types ranging from acoustically private to open collaboration areas.
This building has achieved LEED Platinum certification and employs strategies to cope with rising sea levels.

Robert Benson and Bruce Martin (exteriors), and Eric Laignel (interiors)

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7INK

Project Description

7INK is Boston’s first “inclusive living” concept building, representing an innovative new approach to housing.
Featuring a mix of fully furnished two‑, three‑, and four-bedroom suites with shared kitchens and baths, as well as efficient studio apartments, 7INK combines the services of a hotel, the social energy of a residence hall, and the finish of a luxury apartment—all at a price point that is accessible to young renters in Boston.
The architecture and interiors celebrate a youthful, free-spirited attitude with an exciting array of community spaces that animate the first and second floors and bring light and energy to the street.

Raj Das (exteriors), Connie Zhou (interiors)

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the TRACK at new balance

Project Description

The 455,000-sf TRACK at new balance draws elite athletes from all around the world and offers a rare combination of world-class athletic opportunities.
The centerpiece of the building is its hydraulic track, which is among the fastest in the world, supports multiple simultaneous events, and can transform during the offseason into venues for in-season sports.
The building assembles a collection of specialty spaces where the latest performance strategies and technologies can be explored and tested.
Located at ground level, Roadrunner is a 42,000-sf nighttime concert venue. The year-round flexibility of the fieldhouse and the mix of sports and entertainment make the building self-sustaining.

Photographer: © Robert Benson

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Roche Diagnostics

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 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.

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University of Southern Maine — McGoldrick Center & Portland Commons Residence Hall

Project Description

The McGoldrick Center for Career & Student Success at the University of Southern Maine has created a vibrant new heart for the Portland campus.
LEED-NC Gold-certified with a hybrid steel and mass timber structural system, the McGoldrick Center includes space for dining, a university store, veterans and career services, student organizations, and a diversity center.
As the first-ever student housing on the Portland campus, the Passive House-Certified Portland Commons Residence Hall adds 580 beds for undergraduates in their upper-class years and graduate students. 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.
Portland Commons is the second largest Passive House building at a university in the United States.

Photography by Trent Bell

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University of Chicago — Woodlawn Residential and Dining Commons

Project Description

The Woodlawn Residential and Dining Commons provides 1,298 students with an on-campus home; contributing to the University’s goal of 75 percent of undergraduates living on campus.
The residential program includes eleven houses with 118 residents per house, each house accommodating 30 percent of students in singles, 30 percent in doubles, and 40 percent in four-bedroom apartments.
The floor plans of each house are configured to promote collegiality within the house and interaction between upperclassmen in apartments and underclassmen in the single and double accommodations.
The Commons offers state-of-the-art amenities including academic study spaces, social spaces, and a vibrant dining common with capacity for 650 students.

Photographer: Brad Feinknopf