Project Details
This project was selected as a Merit winner in ARCHITECT's 2024 Architecture & Interiors Awards, Interiors: Lobby and Amenity Space ategory.
“It’s an elegantly designed lobby, and a lot of what is nice about it is the view into this garden kind of courtyard.” –Juror Brooke Horan
Situated along the Route 128 biotech and life science corridor near Boston, 225 Wyman offers carefully designed amenities and the flexibility to cater to a wide range of scientific tenants.
This lab and office workspace is highly customizable, supporting various leasing strategies and configurations, with the capacity to accommodate up to 60% lab areas. It maximizes column-free space and natural light while maintaining controlled floor vibration, ideal for research tenants. The project team, with a forward-thinking approach, documented pathways and footprints for future tenant systems, including plans for supplemental chase and rooftop footprints to incorporate a future vivarium.
225 Wyman was conceived as a holistic workplace campus. It features amenities such as an adjacent parking garage, electric vehicle parking spaces, bike storage, showers, a fitness center, a conference center, and a kitchen/café. The campus includes a 1-acre landscaped quad and several acres of outdoor space and walking trails, reflecting the client’s commitment to health and wellness. Designed to meet the high standards of FM Global and Hobbs Brook, this building ensures exceptional safety and is built to support tenant growth and development over time.
Project: 225 Wyman
Location: 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA
Client/Owner: Hobbs Brook Management LLC
Architect (include team member names, their titles, and any relevant AIA designations): Gensler
- Alex Fernandez, AIA, NCARB, Design Director, Principal
- Kenneth Fisher, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, RA, BSA, Principal
- Keller Roughton, AIA, LEED AP, RA, Principal
- Yulia Bortkevich, Design Director
- Jeff Pivorunas, AIA, RA, Design Manager
- Ben Trendell, AIA, NCARB, RA, Technical Director
- Nate Gove, Technical Designer
- Mary Ellen Kerr, LEED AP BD+C, Technical Designer
- Daniel Nauman, AIA, LEED AP, RA, Design Manager
- Katherine Giglio, Technical Designer
- Matthew Miloszewski, AIA, LEED GA, Architect
- Erik Barth, AIA, LEED AP, WELL AP, CDT, CPHC, Architect
- Leonardo Madrigal, RA, Architect
- Alysha Dohallow, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Technical Director
- Christine Wu, NCIDQ, LEED Green Associate, Interior Designer
- Susan Villalobos, RA, Architect
- Sergio Nicolaas, RA, Designer
- Jeff Asanza, Technical Designer
- Mark Ogden, RA, Project Architect
Construction Start Date: 2016
Construction End Date: 2022
Interior Designer: Gensler
Mechanical Engineer: Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering
Structural Engineer: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Electrical Engineer: Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering
Civil Engineer: H.W. Moore Associates
General Contractor: Gilbane Building Company
Landscape Architect: OJB Landscape Architecture
Lighting Designer: LAM Partners
Other Consultants:
- Rendering / Visualization Studio: Design Distill
- Acoustics Consultant / Engineer: Acentech Incorporated
- Hardware Consultant: arkaSpecs, Inc.
- Code Consultant: Code Red Consultants
- Cost Estimator: Dharam Consulting
- Surveyor: Feldman Land Surveyors
- Geotechnical Engineer: Haley & Aldrich
- Specifications Writer: Kalin Associates
- Vertical Transportation: Van Deusen & Associates
- Envelope Consultant: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
- Wind Analysis, RWDI
- Photographer: Connie Zhou
Size in Square Feet: 500,000 SF
Cost: Withheld
MATERIALS AND SOURCES :
Carpet: Bentley Mills
Flooring: Bentley Mills
Glass: Galaxy Glass, McGrory Glass
Masonry and Stone: Stonesource
Metal: Armstrong Metalworks, Niles Expanded Metals
