Building Performance User Engagement
Arrowstreet believes that user interaction and engagement are the foundation to creating spaces that perform as designed. Occupants of identical buildings can affect annual energy consumption by as much as 300-400 percent based on their unique use of a space. Understanding how occupants use a building, and gaining their commitment to energy conservation goals is key to the overall performance…
Conceptual Branding
Arrowstreet creates pre-design conceptual branded renderings that help brokers and owners representatives visualize how a specific location could come to life for a potential tenant. This work is primarily created for space on high profile streets like Fifth Avenue in New York City. When a storefront is in use or under construction, it can be difficult to imagine how a…
Life Sciences Workplace II
The new 65,000 square foot headquarters for a Cambridge-based genome-editing company stimulates interaction with a state-of-the-art dry lab adjacent to an open office, creating a collaborative life sciences workplace environment. The client’s connection to nature and science is a key component of their mission statement; a vision clearly reflected in the interior architecture, planning, and design of their new space….
Life Sciences Workplace II
The new 65,000 square foot headquarters for a Cambridge-based genome-editing company stimulates interaction with a state-of-the-art dry lab adjacent to an open office, creating a collaborative life sciences workplace environment. The client’s connection to nature and science is a key component of their mission statement; a vision clearly reflected in the interior architecture, planning, and design of their new space….
BPL Book Mosaic
As part of our work on the renovations at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square, we were asked to develop a concept for a large wall in the renovated lobby. After vetting many ideas, we proposed a simple mosaic that combined two things near and dear to the BPL’s heart: books and Boston. The mosaic, which features…
BPL Interior Décor
The Boston Public Library recently completed a major renovation of its Central Library in Copley Square. The goals of the renovation were to revitalize program spaces, improve user services, create an inviting first impression, and strengthen the library’s connection to the City of Boston and the adjacent McKim Building. In addition to our work on the comprehensive wayfinding program, we…
Life Sciences Workplace
Arrowstreet’s Chicago-based client requested a collaborative office and lab space with clean lines and innovative features for their first location in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The thoughtfully designed space is reflective of the fast-moving life science community in Kendall Square, and uses color, texture, and bold graphics to create a variety of work environments. The crisp, clean design is echoed in the furniture choices, including innovative WorkLounges, which…
450 Kendall Street
Innovation and spontaneous interaction at the heart of Kendall Square Close to the heart of Cambridge’s Kendall Square, 450 Kendall is steps from many life science and high-tech companies and MIT. Completed in 2015 for BioMed Realty Trust, the building is a nexus for cutting-edge life science research and its financial backers. Within minutes of MIT’s scientific and business leaders,…
Chestnut Hill Square Retail
Arrowstreet designed an 11-acre mixed-use development for New England Development on Route 9 in the Chestnut Hill area of Newton, Massachusetts. A series of buildings connected by courtyards and landscaped walkways, the project contains restaurants, retail, housing, a medical office building, a Wegmans supermarket, and a parking garage. Arrowstreet’s design optimizes a challenging 30-foot grade change across the site by…
Ora Seaport/Hyatt Place
Residential & mixed-use waterfront development in Boston’s Seaport District Arrowstreet is the master planner and architect for this vibrant 500,000 square-foot waterfront development in Boston’s Innovation District. A primary focus of this development is to set a standard for community-oriented urban design that addresses the resiliency challenges of building along the waterfront. The thoughtful balance of uses integrates 304-units of…