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Located next to Beacon Hill on the over 200-year-old campus of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Phillip and Susan Ragon Building requires a sensitive response to the pedestrian experience while expressing the highest aspirations of MGH’s brand and meeting the city of Boston’s goal of 65% carbon emissions reduction by 2050.

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A Green Hospital Designed for Life

Urban corporate campuses are often closed off from their surrounding neighborhoods, housed in private office towers not open to the public. PenPlace at Amazon’s Arlington Headquarters reverses this trend, revitalizing an underdeveloped site with  2.5 acres of public open space, new offices, an artists-in-residence program, lush landscapes and retail pavilions.

PenPlace at Amazon's Arlington Headquarters

Open to the Community

As sustainability increasingly becomes a driver in the design of corporate headquarters, companies are investing in materials and methods that go beyond typical energy reduction strategies. At a new headquarters, a confidential tech company is tapping clean energy deep underground using an unusual ‘machine in the woods’ to support its sustainability goals and provide heating and cooling for its campus.

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Harnessing the Earth’s Energy

Promoting research and discovery, the Life and Mind Building at the University of Oxford caters to the increasingly collaborative nature of modern science, transforming the University’s engagement with the public and the relationship between the psychological and biological sciences. The design promotes engagement between the departments of research and education, providing an inviting space to support innovative thinking and multi-disciplinary communication.

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A Collaborative Hub for the Physical and Biological Sciences

The exchange of information is crucial to technology firms, yet their workplaces are often segmented, inhibiting collaboration. Leading financial technology firm Lexin’s headquarters is focused on intersections, overlaps and in-between spaces, enhancing the workplace experience and creating opportunities for innovation. 

Lexin Group Headquarters

Merging Nature and City

Health and well-being are essential to creativity, yet too often these key factors are overlooked in the workplace. Unlike the typical office, the headquarters for Korean fintech company Hana Bank focuses on restorative work—the idea that people can leave the workplace feeling better than when they arrived.

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Weaving Nature and Wellness

Though Keppel Tower strikes a dramatic and inspiring architectural presence on the Singapore skyline, sustainability is the main goal of the 30-story mixed-use “vertical village.” NBBJ created a vision, master plan and concept for the tower, which achieves the project's goal of optimizing building and human performance, while also reducing carbon emissions, energy consumption and annual operating costs. 

Keppel Towers Redevelopment

A Restorative, Generative Workplace of the Future

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One in five children have learning differences. Yet most schools are not designed with neurodiversity in mind, which hinders learning for students with dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia. The design of the net zero carbon Lower School campus of Westmark School—which supports students with language-based learning differences—creates an inclusive, welcoming and nature-infused environment, featuring mass timber and other natural materials.

Westmark School

Optimizing the Learning Environment

An increasing number of people report suffering from mental health issues, a problem compounded by the fact that treatment typically takes place in facilities that isolate rather than heal. The design of Ohana applies the latest in neuroscience research to provide an inclusive, healing environment for patients, families and caregivers.

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A Design for Hope

Split between three existing buildings over 750,000 square feet, a Southern California-based life sciences company needed to move its entire management group into one location to maintain its competitive edge. One of the largest activity-based workplaces, the consolidated headquarters prioritizes health, views and daylight to spur collaboration and movement.

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Designed to Spur Collaboration

Located within a thriving hub of 10 interconnected towers in Hong Kong's Quarry Bay, Swire's Two Taikoo Place in Hong Kong mixes shared amenities with public spaces in a unique approach to programming that enhances the well-being of tenants and enriches the community.

Two Taikoo Place

Spaces to Work, Connect and Rest

Aging sports and entertainment venues, even those with historic legacies, need to modernize the experience of patrons and engage the surrounding community to keep pace. The redesign of Central Bank Center, which includes the iconic Rupp Arena and a convention center, transforms the storied facility into a modern prototype for entertainment that connects with the surrounding city through a transparent, inviting experience.

Central Bank Center Renovation (Rupp Arena)

Modernizing a Legacy

Though people who are blind and visually impaired have their vision affected in different ways, low contrast sensitivity is a hallmark of many diagnoses. This sensitivity is often at odds with the design of clinics, which typically integrate bright light, diverse color schemes and difficult to read signage. So when it came time to design a new building for Oregon Health & Science University's Casey Eye Institute, we combined intensive research with an empathetic design process that first saw the world through the eyes of patients to create spaces that are attuned to their unique conditions and needs.

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Tailoring an Environment for the Visually Impaired

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Today, hospitals need to respond to more uncertainty than ever before, from pandemics to the impacts of climate change.  To better prepare for these events, Loma Linda University Medical Center is designed with resiliency in mind. Unlike the typical hospital, it can flex from low to high acuity to accommodate complex future scenarios from pandemics to mass casualty events—and features unique structural elements that help guard against earthquakes. 

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A More Adaptable, Resilient Hospital

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Constructed nearly 10 months faster than typical for a building of its size, the design of Rainier Square Tower reflects the latest in speed-to-market technology, serving as an urban catalyst for business and people.

Rainier Square Tower

Built on Speed

A critical challenge in behavioral health design is the need to balance aesthetics, dignity and comfort with safety. Nationwide Children’s Hospital, one of the largest behavioral health centers in the U.S. devoted to children and teens, builds agency by offering patients diverse choices on where to spend their time, as well as the ability to customize their surroundings in an environment that is comforting and uplifting.

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Providing Comfort and Choice

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The continual evolution of research themes demands a strategy that provides inherent flexibility in building design and layout, allowing users to adapt to new research and technological opportunities during the building's lifetime. The national Henry Royce Institute for advanced materials features seven floors with dedicated specialist spaces as well as open-ended write up areas, providing a flex zone which can be converted to additional laboratories, reacting to the changing needs of the materials research community.

Henry Royce Institute

Putting Science on Show

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Libraries are in transition—once a place of knowledge dissemination and quiet introspection, they are becoming spaces to meet, socialize, study, hang out and plug in. Columbus Metropolitan Library’s branch at Northside is a key project in the library’s larger push to reimagine libraries for the Information Age as catalysts for community, learning and positive change.

Columbus Metropolitan Library: Northside Branch

A Library for the Information Age

Throughout the world, modern cities operate from a mentality organized primarily around automobiles, not people. Tencent’s Shenzhen Headquarters Project (Net City) places the needs of people and the environment before cars, resulting in an interconnected, organic ecosystem that paves the way for future cities.

Tencent Shenzhen Headquarters Project (Net City)

Throughout the world, modern cities operate from a mentality organized primarily around automobiles, not people. Tencent’s Shenzhen Headquarters Project (Net City), places the needs of people and the environment before cars, resulting in an interconnected, organic ecosystem that paves the way for future cities. 

Placing People Before Cars

The traditional model for corporate design places companies in a singular high-rise, or multiple low-rise buildings. The linked configuration of the Tencent Seafront Towers activates movement and exchange within the workplace, creating horizontal “streetscapes” and vertical connections. 

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A Vertical Community

Designed to reflect Seattle City Light’s vision to be the greenest utility in America, Denny Substation elevates the standards of environmental sustainability and provides a vital new public space for the neighborhood.

Seattle City Light Denny Substation

Designed to reflect Seattle City Light’s vision to be the greenest utility in America, Denny Substation elevates the standards of environmental sustainability and provides a vital new public space for the neighborhood. 

Elevating Energy and Infrastructure

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Despite its proximity to downtown and a burgeoning art community, Franklinton has traditionally lacked a civic identity that reflects and anchors the district. Gravity enriches its live-work-play campus with amenities like vegetable gardens, food truck courts, community programming and a dedicated graffiti wall to create a dynamic hub that can evolve with tenant interests.

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A Catalyst for Community

For many stadiums and arenas, there is frequently a tradeoff between sustainability, performance and iconic design. Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center unites all three, featuring a poetic, floral-inspired design that simultaneously reduces carbon and material use. The development uses 67% less steel than Beijing Olympic Stadium, making it both beautiful and sustainable while creating a world-class sporting venue for a booming city.

Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center

Uniting Beauty and Performance

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Intermountain Healthcare set out to create a new type of facility—a preeminent national hub for educating the next generation of physicians, caregivers and operations leaders that embodies the system’s commitment to the environment. 

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Fostering Innovation in Healthcare

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The typical corporate campus is walled off, separated from the community. But Amazon was born in Seattle and draws much of its energy from its city location. So, we designed the 3.3-million-square-foot campus as a neighborhood of buildings, plazas and public spaces that connect seamlessly with Seattle’s existing metropolitan fabric.  

Amazon in the Regrade

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Building Connection, Fostering Community

Faced with an aging health center built in the 1970s, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) Health Commission sought NBBJ’s guidance to design a clinic for their 3,200 tribal members. The Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center’s net-zero design takes its cues from the Native community’s devotion to the land and environment, serving the needs of its users as well as the natural world of which it is a part.

Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center

Connecting with Nature and the Community

Hospital visits are often stressful, so the Kimmel Pavilion, the largest expansion in the history of NYU Langone Health, is designed with the patient journey in mind. The Pavilion enhances wellness and patient satisfaction with a welcoming, personalized environment and an LEED Platinum design.

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Promoting Peace of Mind

City sports parks are urban assets, yet incremental updates over the years can result in an ununified presence and dispersed services. To enhance human connectivity and serve as a landmark destination for the community, the design of the Orange County Great Park creates a new, united recreational experience via a series of pavilions that host diverse sporting activities.

Orange County Great Park

A Connected Community Experience

To spur innovation and build culture, companies seek to foster collaboration both within and outside their organization. Yet oftentimes corporate headquarters are static and lack dynamic spaces which draw people together. Ant Financial’s Z Space headquarters connects employees to one another and their community through an open, engaging and responsive workplace spanning indoors and out.

Ant Financial Z Space

Dynamic and Responsive

The Quadram Institute is unique in bringing food and gastroenterology researchers, clinicians and scientists together under one roof for the first time. To create a pleasant and cohesive environment and unite these disparate groups, the project’s energy-efficient design puts “science on show” with visual connections from office to lab, while still maintaining a hierarchy of public-to-private space.

Quadram Institute

Fostering Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

Bringing world-class performances to the public requires the coordinated efforts of many people, but the beauty and richness of this work is typically hidden from public view. The Seattle Opera at the Center turns the traditional program inside-out for the delight of the community, revealing the beautiful “behind-the-scenes” efforts that must coalesce to create a performance and breaking down barriers between audience and art.

Seattle Opera at the Center

Building Community

Increasingly, life science buildings must meet organizational needs while also adapting to new and more agile ways of working. A leading supplier of research tools in more than 130 countries, Abcam’s headquarters brings 450 staff together for the first time. Its connected, collaborative headquarters supports employee and staff well-being, driving efficiencies that help advance scientific research. 

Abcam Headquarters

Flexible and Sustainable

Despite the connected nature of their products, technology flagship stores are seldom designed to encourage customer interaction. The SMART flagship store for major Philippines-based communications company PLDT offers an engaging, modular experience for its visitors that reflects the company’s mission to empower and connect every customer through a seamless digital experience. 

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Engaging Social Space

While a focus on patient care continues to be of the utmost importance, staff experience and well-being are crucial to the success of a healthcare system. Referred to as the ‘Garden Hospital’ for its pastoral setting and 17 courtyards, the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary’s design centers on its staff as well as its patients to provide an uplifting, therapeutic and person-centered environment.  

Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary

Prioritizing the Well-Being of Patients and Staff

To create more sustainable buildings, building performance is best addressed from the outset through a coordinated, integrated approach. Nanjing Eco Hi-Tech Island in China embraces this notion, serving as the region’s center for the practice of high-tech innovation, with cultural and workplace buildings that restore the environment, interweave nature and reduce the use of critical resources such as energy and water.

Nanjing Eco Hi-Tech Island, Xin Wei Yi Technology Park

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Smart Eco-Urbanism

Originally designed in the 1960s with an elevated ground floor and concourse to allow for the flow of traffic and pedestrians, ill-considered 1980s extensions to the City, University of London’s main building on Northampton Square obscured its accessibility and led to persistent overcrowding around the main entrance. The transformation of the building’s main entrance creates a transparent, interactive new hub for not only a significant London campus, but also the surrounding neighborhood.

City, University of London Main Entrance Transformation Project

Silicon Valley tech headquarters are typically removed from the street and defined by extensive security and surface parking lots. Samsung’s campus—which abides by urban guidelines developed by the city of San Jose that call for densification, active streetscapes and environmental stewardship—moves the building close to the street edge and invites the community in with an open, welcoming design.

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Connecting Mission to Action

The bringing together of diverse disciplines and the encouragement of community connections are two defining factors of the next generation of campus research facilities. The flexible, transparent and open Integrated Research and Innovation Center (IRIC) at the University of Idaho allows grant-funded faculty and students to collaborate on cross-department research in the hard and social sciences, as well as the humanities.  

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