― Our Boston Studio
Designing a better future for our growing city
Who We Are ― 2 Featured Projects ― 14 Our People ― 60
― Our Boston Studio
Who We Are
Who We Are
Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place. That’s why clients and communities on nearly every continent
Areas of Practice
partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which
Branded Environments
to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about
Civic and Cultural
human-centered design, and committed to creating a
Corporate and Commercial
positive impact in people’s lives through sustainability, resilience, well-being, diversity, inclusion, and research.
Corporate Interiors
In fact, Fast Company named us one of the World’s Most
Health
Innovative Companies in Architecture. Our global team of
Higher Education
2,700 creatives and critical thinkers provides worldwide
Hospitality
interdisciplinary services in architecture, interior design,
K-12 Education
landscape architecture, and more. Our partners are Schmidt
Landscape Architecture
Hammer Lassen, Portland, Nelson\Nygaard, Genesis
Planning and Strategies
Planning, and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR).
Science and Technology Sports, Recreation, and Entertainment Transportation Urban Design
← Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
→ The Exchange, 100 Federal Street Boston, Massachusetts
We collaborate with clients all over the world to create healthy, sustainable places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal.
Who We Are
Welcome to our Boston studio. Here in the home of the American Revolution, we’re proud of our rebel roots. We hold fast to our values—diversity, collaboration, and innovation—and we’re only half-joking when we tell people to run until apprehended, because we see our studio less like an office and more like a test lab. Ingenuity is embedded in the fabric of our practice, blurring traditional boundaries between disciplines. We take advantage of our city’s world-class academic institutions, actively seeking new perspectives for a fresh, dynamic atmosphere.
― FUN STUDIO FACT
Our in-house model shop is at the heart of our studio—both literally and figuratively. The shop is always bustling with activity, from the hum of the 3D printer to the buzz of the laser cutter. Making is a part of our every day.
Who We Are
Work culture. Our "Taste of" Series We’re proud of what makes us different. In fact, we think it’s our unique backgrounds and varied experiences that contribute most to our vibrant, creative work environment. To celebrate the rich diversity in our studio, our Diversity Committee co-sponsors regular lunches with staff who want to share their cultural heritage with the entire office. So far, we’ve been fortunate to explore Venezuela, India, Korea, Brazil, Iran, England, and Lebanon through food, history, art, and culture.
― WHAT MAKES OUR STUDIO SPECIAL
“The thing that drew me in to Perkins and Will was a comment from Phil Harrison: ‘No one is ever going to say no to you here. It’s about how you chart your path and move forward.’ That stuck with me.” GAUTAM SUNDARAM, ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
→ We love to invite the broader community into our space. Right, we hosted a panel discussion in our Artist Lecture Series, which united designers, developers and artists in focused conversations about art and placemaking.
Who We Are
Projects that give back.
Fowler-Clark-Epstein Farm Revitalization Built between 1786 and 1806, the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm remains among the earliest intact, vernacular examples of an agricultural property in the Commonwealth’s cities. Historic Boston Incorporated (HBI) purchased the property for preservation and re-use. Along with its partners, the Urban Farming Institute, The Trust for Public Land, and North Bennet Street School, HBI is planning a $3.2 million restoration of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm as an urban farm and education center for the Urban Farming Institute that will include
Location: Mattapan, Massachusetts
classrooms, a dem-onstration kitchen, planting beds, and a
Size: 30,000 square feet
farm stand. This vision supports the burgeoning urban farming movement in Boston, creates jobs, and provides access to locally grown produce for neighbors.
Completion Date: 2018
Cristóbal Colón School Case Study For the past two years, the city of Cali, Colombia, has led an intensive program to improve its public school system entitled My Community, My School. Championed by Mayor Maurice Armitage and managed by the city’s Chief Resilience Officer, Vivian Argueta, the program supports strengthening the Daylight
quality and relevance of public education in both rural and urban schools by integrating improvements to both school facilities and
Water
Water PV Array Collection
Water Rooftop Play Space
curriculum. The initiative focuses on benefits not only to students, but also teachers, directors and surrounding communities.
Ceramics and Sculpture
Classrooms
In May 2019, 100 Resilient Cities convened a
Classrooms Multi-purpose Court
team of international and Colombia-based partners to support Santiago de Cali in co-
Cafeteria
developing a conceptual framework for the Catalog that aligns with the city’s wider resilience objectives. The team consisted of experts from Perkins and Will, AECOM, WSP, Build Change and Save the Children, who
Location: Cali, Colombia
offered their services on a pro-bono basis.
Completion Date: 2019
Community Gathering Space
Who We Are
Social purpose in the workplace. We care about our communities, so we give back. From volunteering at soup kitchens to teaching children in the classroom, we devote our time and resources every day to making our local communities stronger. We also support causes that are near and dear to our staff, allowing them to donate their design skills to make a positive difference in the lives of those who need it most.
Who We Are Clockwise from big picture: Volunteering with the Urban Farming Institute; Members of the team assist in a Habitat for Humanity Build Day; We helped the United Way assemble Literacy Kits to benefit kids in need of basic school supplies .
― Featured Projects
Healthy, sustainable places to live, learn, work, play, and heal.
An inclusive, ultra-sustainable athletic facility that acts as a campus and community hub.
A Place for All When Phillips Academy Andover set out to design a new athletics facility, school leaders knew it had to be inclusive environment where the student-body felt both welcome and well-represented. As educators of some of the country’s brightest young minds, and as trainers of some of the country’s highest performing young athletes, Andover wanted to demonstrate its commitment to their students by providing an unrivaled venue that would support their physical, mental, social and emotional development.
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Client: Phillips Academy Andover Size: 98,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
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A monumental athletic experience on Lake Michigan
Client: Northwestern University Size: 420,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
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― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
A sweeping horizontal glass façade and efficient planning provide unobstructed Lake Michigan views. A Monumental Athletic Experience The Ryan Fieldhouse and Walter Athletics Center is a transformational athletic expansion on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. To optimize the student-athlete experience, we designed a sleek, sophisticated destination– one that takes full advantage of the vista over Lake Michigan and the panorama of the Chicago skyline. Abundant ceiling-to-floor windows give way to jaw-dropping views of the natural and urban landscape, ushering in natural light at nearly every turn. And, despite being located on a constrained site, the monumental facility seamlessly integrates with the surrounding campus, never calling too much attention to itself.
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A first-of-its-kind collaboration between an NFL team and a leading healthcare institution.
Client: Baylor Scott & White Health Size: 300,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
An Unprecedented Partnership From elite professionals to student athletes, North Texans have a new world-class destination for athletic training and sports medicine. Adjacent to the Dallas Cowboys’ world headquarters, the STAR project is a first-of-its kind collaboration between the Dallas Cowboys and Baylor Scott & White Health that is expected to serve up to 50,000 visitors annually. The design invokes a sense of strength, durability, and precision— attributes of both the athletes who will seek treatment at the center and the physicians who will provide care there. The complex enables visitors to experience the full spectrum of physical performance all in one place— from injury prevention and training to healing and recovery.
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A physical tribute to resilience—for both the built environment and the human spirit.
Client: Partners Healthcare Size: 260,000 square feet Completion Date: 2013
A Symbol of Rehab Medicine’s Evolution Spaulding is a hospital for the people. The new rehab hospital is sited at the tip of the old Charlestown Navy Yard and is a proud and transparent place. Natural daylight beams through its glass façade. An expansive feeling connects patients and visitors to the glittering harbor waters from every floor. From the patient bed to the healing gardens and roof top terrace, this connection with the natural environment is an important part of the healing process. Every aspect of the building design has been carefully researched and considered. In fact, our design team spent a day in the old hospital entirely in wheelchairs during the initial design phase to better understand the perspective and challenges of the patients. They were resolute in wanting to create a hospital that helps patients regain mobility, independence, and confidence. As such, our team designed the entry at street level; the reception desk is low and rounded; the patient rooms have custom cabinetry and automated shades, patient lifts, private bathrooms, and amenities such as private refrigerators, sleeping accommodations for family members and a wireless connection for patients and guests.
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→ Located directly on the Boston Harbor, the design incorporates resilient strategies to anticipate rising sea levels and extreme weather events related to climate change
“This hospital makes a bold statement that a new era of rehabilitative medicine is here by bringing together scientific innovation and patient-centered design that puts this institution on par with the major centers of healing in the world.” DAVID STORTO, PRESIDENT, SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL
← Therapeutic terraces on the third and fourth floors serve as places of respite for patients, staff and families. Gardens and views of Boston Harbor provide further uplifting diversions to the occupants.
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Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
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Ushering in a new era of health and healing Client: Maine Medical Center Size: 280,000 square feet Completion Date: 2022
A Complete Campus Transformation The extensive campus modernization and replacement project will enable Maine Medical Center to meet their most urgent healthcare needs well into the future. The new campus master plan creates a seamless transition between the bucolic character of the Western Promenade and the urban texture along Congress street, reflecting both the natural environment of Maine and the quality of health care that Maine Medical Center provides. With the addition of the new buildings, the campus extends its reach to engage with the community along Congress street. The intricate articulation of the building envelope along Congress street derives from the bed floor arrangement which provides more daylight penetration, better views out, shorter travel distances and better staff visibility into the patient rooms.
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― DESIGNER PERSPECTIVE
Sebastian Martellotto "What I love about designing spaces for healing is that we can have a positive impact on human life."
― WHAT IT IS
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First Look: Belmont Middle and High School Client: Town of Belmont Size: 445,100 square feet Completion Date: TBD
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Building a Better Future In the future, students at Belmont High School may learn in a progressive environment that takes its design cues from forward thinking industries. Open areas for collaboration, flexible spaces to meet the needs of changing curricula, mobile workstations for students and teachers—workplace design elements often embraced by innovative tech companies and creative agencies like Google and IDEO—are among a host of options that Perkins+Will is exploring as we collaborate on a plan to improve the school. Early on in the design process, we engaged our Boston-based Subject Matter Experts to help the Town of Belmont understand what is next, not only in educational design, but in the workplace, branding, science and technology, and sports and recreation.
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A healthy, future-ready school that serves as a vibrant community resource.
Client: Town of Billerica Size: 325,000 square feet Completion Date: 2019
A Renewed Commitment to Education The Town of Billerica has quietly reinvented itself in recent years; Once known as “Sportstown USA,” it’s now recognized across the state and country for exceptional performance in the arts and sciences. Yet their outdated high school was far from functional and did not reflect the community’s commitment to its students. To meet Billerica’s diverse and evolving educational needs, we first had to understand: we listened to hundreds of administrators, faculty members, students, and families—14 distinct user groups in total—and we knew that agile, flexible spaces would be essential. So we designed classrooms to be completely customizable by each teacher. And major common areas—like the cafeteria, gymnasium, and auditorium—will double as venues for the entire town to gather. The outcome? An agile building that promotes collaboration and handson learning, allowing students to contribute to their vibrant community by cultivating their individual talents. 30
The multi-story dining commons is at the heart of the new school, connecting the academic wing to civic spaces like the gymnasium and auditorium
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Billerica Memorial High School
Flexible innovation spaces support a range of teaching methodologies.
Client: Brimmer and May School Size: 13,000 square feet Completion Date: 2017
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School of the Future Encouraging creative thinking, collaboration and community is at the core of the addition and renovation project at the Brimmer and May School. The new and repurposed spaces foster active learning at the co-ed, independent Pre-K-12 school, while helping students develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills enhanced by the use of emerging technologies. The architecture reflects the educational intent by expressing a full range of fabrication through the raw concrete floors and exposed structure and mechanical systems, contrasted by the refinement of the central stair, walls, ceilings, and casework. Fiber cement planks wrap the building’s exterior, responding to the dark-shingled houses of the school’s historic neighborhood, while the transparency of the building outwardly displays the innovation happening inside. The new innovation lab and dedicated maker space support hands-on learning while the flexible student commons provides spaces to support group work, independent thinking and projectbased learning.
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A vibrant social and academic hub, the project fosters community and harbors many miniature neighborhoods under one roof.
Community-Building at Multiple Scales
Client: Keene State College Size: 85,000 square feet
The Living and Learning Commons creates
Completion Date: 2016
a more seamless transition to college life by providing an environment where faculty and residential staff work collaboratively to nurture communities where students can develop friendships and succeed academically. Now a dedicated home to 350 first-year students, the new LLC boast 11 different communities providing a variety of opportunities for students to pursue their academic and co-curricular interests in a safe, supportive and dynamic environment. The LLC is organized to support communities on four scales – the wing, the floor, the building, and the precinct. The ground level acts as the mixer, where students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to connect academically and socially. Residents on the upper levels have access to dedicated quiet study space, which is complemented by a floor-level community space that connects through a transparent, vertical social Hub. The Hub is the connective tissue of the building-scale community, promoting both physical activity and engagement between floors while also acting as an iconic campus beacon.
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↑ The Hub is the heart of the building and is vertically unified by a stair that winds its way up through the multi-story spaces. The transparency of the hub transmits its internal energy across the campus.
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A tale of two eras
Client: Eastern Washington University Size: 123,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
Uniting Past and Future The original Pence Union Building (PUB) was built in two eras, 1974 and 1995. The design concept behind the renovation focuses on improving the “seam” between two eras and unifying them through space utilization and form. A “main street” connection creates two dominant entries, one to the south facing the campus mall and one to the north greeting the flow of traffic from transit, athletics, and residential halls. The PUB has become a student-focused building with something for everyone. Transparency, visibility, and daylit spaces make the new union a welcoming place to eat, study, and gather.
The prominent active stair encourages serendipitous interactions among students and faculty, reinforcing the PUB’s identity as a community space for all.
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Eastern Washington University, Pence Union Building Renovation
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Rejuvenating an urban streetscape Client: University of California, Hastings Size: Confidential Completion Date: August 2024
― WHAT IT IS
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An Academic Village in San Francisco’s Civic Center Anchored by 900 beds for graduate students and faculty in a range of unit types, each tower – new and renovation – will feature very distinct common spaces. The incredibly diverse podiums include academic classrooms, student commons and wellness spaces, community engagement spaces, and food and retail options which will dramatically rejuvenate the urban streetscape. The reconstructed site of 198 McAllister will maximize the zoning envelope with housing units along Hyde Street and within an internal court-yard that will focus on the level 7 sky lounge and level 8 reading room. This large commons is an incredible asset for all students with dramatic views to the Civic Center; smaller pocket commons are distributed within the upper residential levels.
― DESIGNER PERSPECTIVE
Matthew Pierce "When I go to the mountains, there's this sense of anticipation and desire to explore that feeds into my work. We're exploring ideas. We're going into a project and not knowing exactly where it’s going to lead."
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Creative revitalization of a Brutalist building into an active campus commons Client: Wentworth Institute of Technology Size: 27,800 square feet
Library of Tomorrow: Learning through Discovery
Completion Date: 2016
Embedded within a six-story mid-century modern Student Center, the new Library and Learning Commons reveals itself along Wentworth’s primary campus pedestrian path, the “Pike.” The Commons provides a vibrant heart at the center of campus where openness and transparency drive the character and feel of the interior space. A voluminous and active 3-story “Living Room” allows for an immediate understanding of the Common’s organization of open trays and glazed study rooms. A vibrant gradient of yellow and red set against neutral tones, create a respectful humanistic dialogue within the Brutalist character of the interior shell. By using compact storage, the physical collection was reduced by 60%, consequently creating a diversity of highly sought-after study and collaboration spaces as well as the tools and spaces to actively engage and enable students to expand their ability to discover through making and creating outside of the classroom.
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→ The color palette of a vibrant gradient of yellow and red is used in a simple way through furniture, accent walls and carpet to reflect the Institutes branding. A secondary neutral palette of maple, white and metal compliments the visual identity.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Making and creating is extended into the library where discovering is not limited to the collections.
← By significantly shifting the collections from print to digital, students now have access to a Sandbox Maker Space that rotates new technologies to support the design and engineering culture.
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Prompting discovery, transforming culture Client: University of Kansas Size: 284,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
Science on Display The Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) at KU represents a paradigm shift in science education and research. The ISB is designed to maximize undergraduate engagement with faculty and researchers. By strategically co-locating teaching and research labs on the same floor-plate and linking them with “student commons” collaboration spaces, the ISB will provide a platform for a new educational culture at KU. The ISB will initially be focused on material science, life sciences and chemistry research laboratories. The research labs are located on the east and west ends of the ISB, with chemistry teaching labs (organic, inorganic, general, analytical and instrumentation) as well as 240 seat auditorium and active learning classrooms occupying the central section of the building. ISB is organized around two vertical “nodes” on the east and west sides of the building that not only provide the necessary vertical circulation and building services distribution, but also cluster conferencing, interaction and social spaces; providing both formal and informal spaces for discovery and learning.
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Reviving a mid-century structure into a cutting-edge space for scientific exploration. Client: University of Massachusetts Lowell Size: 32,500 square feet Completion Date: 2018
Collaborative by Design With its central location on the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s North Campus, Perry Hall is a critical facility for the Francis College of Engineering, providing teaching and research laboratories for a diverse academic program with an established interdisciplinary approach. The redevelopment of Perry Hall is a unique opportunity for the University to address ongoing deferred maintenance and upgrades since the building’s construction in 1950, while at the same time improving laboratories within the building, allowing for better utilization now and for future programs.
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― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
A flexible design approach allows students and researchers in various disciplines to come together in one facility.
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Reaching toward the oceans to shape our collective future Client: Town of Belmont Size: 445,100 square feet Completion Date: TBD
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A Beacon of Sustainability Nestled into Maine’s coastal hillside, the three wings of this new research center reach out towards the ocean, recalling the local vernacular of docks and piers while connecting to the mission of the institute: to understand the relationships between our oceans and our atmosphere and how these influence and are influenced by climate change. The proximity to the sea, and to the sensitive coastal environment, is vital for their research. Connecting each of the research wings is a sunlight-filled Commons that provides informal meeting spaces, café, and large conference room, bringing everyone in the Bigelow community together. Views to the natural site are maintained throughout the building, with collaborative spaces projecting out towards the sea, increasing the researchers’ visual access to the ocean to inspire them and focus their passions.
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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Lab design inspired by origami cranes.
Client: Takeda Oncology Size: 180,000 square feet Completion Date: 2015
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The Power of Collaboration According to Japanese legend, a person who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted one wish–a tradition embraced by Takeda as an expression of its aspiration to cure cancer. Sharing Takeda’s hope, our team felt a responsibility to create an R&D headquarters that would support the collaboration required to solve some of the world’s biggest health problems. The “lab-centric” layout and open office and laboratory environment encourages interactions between employees while promoting engagement across scientific disciplines. Transparency throughout the facility provides scientists with more visual connections between their benches and desks, and celebrates the work taking place inside the lab. The physical expression of the cranes can be seen in the folded glass planes of the innovative robotics lab and the abstract diagonal lines that articulate the back walls of the informal coffee areas.
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We implemented a "Science on Display" area—showcasing robotics behind glass walls similar to a museum, allowing visitors a clear view of the innovation happening within the lab environment.
Designing for the world's largest farmer—that has no assets, land, labor, or equipment Feed the World After experiencing exponential growth, Indigo Ag needed to
Client: Indigo Ag
establish a new headquarters that would maintain the culture
Size: 60,000 square feet
that drove the success of this agricultural technology company
Completion Date: 2017
and embrace its vision to help farmers sustainably feed the planet. The new space exudes a natural feel that appeals to
― WHAT IT IS
employees, recruits, and investors; wood, stone, and natural fibers recall an agricultural feel, while the flow of the space recalls the symmetrical rows of a field. Organized into neighborhoods, private conference rooms and collaboration zones are clustered around open workstations to support different styles of working. Office spaces and lab benching are balanced within the open floor plan, and visual transparency is maintained throughout. The heart of the space is the large central kitchen, where each week, employees gather around the farm tables to share in a community lunch, reinforcing each person’s drive to help feed the world.
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R&D Headquarters for a growing agricultural technology company dedicated to helping farmers feed the world.
Above: Main lobby Right: The natural palette recalls the company’s agricultural mission.
An elegant headquarters and customer experience center
Designing a Headquarters Experience
Client: Shire (Formerly Baxalta)
Baxalta’s vision consisted of a “white box” Bauhaus-style
Size: 206,000 square feet Completion Date: 2016
environment that would be a simple, elegant backdrop to Baxalta’s brand focus: their patients. The open environment consists not of closed private offices, but rather guest rooms that may be scheduled as needed. This abundance of conference/meeting rooms, collaboration areas, and cafés allows for flexibility in the workplace, following the “we-meus” construct for work-related tasks: users can utilize space for heads down work on their own, small group meetings of two to four people, or larger group conferences.
― DESIGNER PERSPECTIVE
Jenny Davis “The most important part of the project is the kick-off meeting—you have to challenge yourself throughout the rest of the process to make sure every decision you make reflects that initial vision."
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― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Simple, sleek materials place the emphasis on what matter's most: the patients.
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An energetic co-working space in the most innovative square mile on the planet.
Client: Cambridge Innovation Center Size: 90,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
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It is Rocket Science The Cambridge Innovation Center opened their doors in 1999—long before “co-working” was a standard household term—as a place for entrepreneurs to bring their world-changing innovations to reality. For their third Cambridge location, we designed a bright, colorful space to match the tangible energy of the occupants. Open cafés on each floor encourage community-building, and availability of key amenities, like conference centers and mothers’ rooms, allows the innovators to focus on doing what they do best.
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A grand civic gesture at a crucial nexus of Boston’s Financial District.
Boston’s Living Room The Exchange at 100 Federal Street is a living room for the Financial District, located just one block from our Perkins and Will Boston studio. It is a place for meeting, collaborating, celebrating, and sharing that attracts people from their tower offices and the neighborhood. The building has captivated professionals, tourists, and locals alike with a reinvigorated public space in the heart of the city. The Exchange replaces what was once an underperforming wind-swept park and gives it new life by creating a place where you feel like you are outside, yet are comfortable in any season or weather. This sensation of being outside is reinforced by a material and furniture palette that draws the exterior setting into the space, resulting in a landscape and building design unified in both material and form.
Client: Boston Properties Size: 20,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
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The Exchange
A Brutalist structure is reborn
A Fresh New Look 191 Spring Street is the remarkable transformation of a 1960s, brutalist-era concrete structure in Lexington, MA. Breathing fresh life in the great bones of this building, the repositioning delivers a new destination for refined, Class-A multi-tenant office space at the intersection of major regional transit. Its refined detailing recalls a modern, industrial aesthetic that elegantly complements and strengthens the existing architecture. The building and the tenant space is transformed through transparency. Conversion of the building’s opaque, exterior mechanical shafts into multi-story glazing, presents improved interior workspace and a new identity for both building and tenants alike. The entirety of the ground floor was reconfigured to present a new building entrance and visitor drop-off with new building lobby and café immediately inside to greet visitors.
Client: Boston Properties Size: 200,000 square feet Completion Date: 2018
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Floor-to-ceiling windows draw light deep into the building and establish a strong indoor-outdoor connection.
New amenities include an innovation center, fitness center, café, roof terrace and newly landscaped patios; creating new spaces to work and play while enriching their workplace environment. Focusing on a mission of creating healthy workplaces, the project introduced a basketball court, workout room and yoga studio along with individual shower pods.
Using systems thinking to solve global challenges ― WHAT IT IS
An interdisciplinary alliance providing pro-bono planning and design services to help post-Maria Puerto Rico recover, heal, and grow.
Solving Global Challenges In response to Hurricane Maria, architect and native Puerto Rican Yanel de Angel spearheaded a campaign to attract partners in academia, private industry, and the nonprofit and civic realms to come together and devise implementable recovery and resilience strategies for Puerto Rico. Over the course of a few months, the group grew into a global, interdisciplinary alliance known as ResilientSEE. The alliance is currently conducting resilient planning for the Toa Baja municipality, which aims to create a framework plan that assesses the social, environmental, and economic risks and vulnerabilities for the community of Toa Baja and the island of Puerto Rico at large, ultimately recommending a set of guiding principles to help inform actions moving forward. With an open mindset, ResilientSEE will use a holistic system approach to co-create an infrastructure plan and position the community to seek federal funds for rebuilding.
Client: Autonomous Municipality of Toa Baja Size: 26,688 acres Completion Date: 2020
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Resilient Planning Framework for the Municipality of Toa Baja
― Our Team
We're designers, planners, strategists, and all-around creatives
Our Team
Robert Brown
Eric Keune
Jeannine Campbell
Managing Director
Design Director
Interior Design Director
Yanel de Angel
Jeremy Dearborn
Ron Gorham
Higher Education
Science and Technology
Health
Stephen Sefton
Gautam Sundaram
Sports, Recreation, and Entertainment
Urban Design
LET’S COLLABORATE
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Andrew Grote
Patrick Cunningham
Operations Director
Derek Johnson
David Damon Higher Education
Matthew Pierce
Emily Klein Planning and Strategies
Brooke Trivas
Jeffrey R. Zynda
K-12 Education
Science and Technology
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