Location
Boston, Massachusetts

Client
Boston University

Completion
2022

Size
345,000 ft² / 32,052 m²

Project Type
Education, Tower

Sustainability
LEED® Platinum

KPMB Team
Bruce Kuwabara (design partner), Marianne McKenna (partner-in-charge), Paulo Rocha (design partner), Luigi LaRocca (founding principal), Lucy Timbers (senior associate, project manager), David Smythe (senior associate), Kael Opie (senior associate), Tyler Loewen (associate), Melissa Ng (associate), Matt Krivosudsky (associate), Tyler Hall, Amin Monsefi, Victor Garzon, Samantha Hart, Olena Chorny, Nicholas Wong, Olivia di Filice, Jason Chang, Fotini Pitoglou, Carolyn Lee (senior associate), Kayley Mullings, Arminé Tadevosyan

Consultants
BR+A Consulting Engineers (MEP,IT), Entuitive + LeMessurier Consultants (structural), Entuitive (building envelope), Turner & Townsend (cost), Richard Burck Associates Inc. (landscape), Dot Dash (lighting), Transsolar (climate engineering), The Green Engineer (LEED), Nitsch Engineering Inc (civil), Soberman Engineering (elevator), Jensen Hughes (fire and life safety, accessibility), Haley & Aldrich (geotechnical, geothermal), Acentech (acoustics/a.v.), RWDI Inc (environmental engineers), Learch Bates (façade access), Robbie McCabe Consulting (hardware), Ricca Design Studios (food services), Entro Communications (signage), Brian Ballantyne Specifications (specifications)

Competition Team
Bruce Kuwabara, Marianne McKenna, Luigi LaRocca, Paulo Rocha, Kevin Bridgman, Joy Charbonneau, Claire Kurtin, Joe Kan, Ramin Yamin

Photography
Tom Arban

Awards
2024 New England Architecture Award
2024 Ontario Association of Architects Design Excellence Award
2024 ACEC Engineering Excellence Award
2024 ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence Award
2024 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Award of Excellence
2023 Harleston Parker People’s Choice Award
2023 Metropolis Planet Positive Awards (Honourable Mention)
2023 Interior Design, Best of Year Awards, Large Higher Education category
2023 INSIDE Festival
2023 World Architecture Festival (Shortlist, Completed Buildings: Higher Education and Research category)
2023 Canadian Interiors’ Best of Canada Award
2023 EBC EBEE Award
2020 Canadian Architect Award of Merit
2019 Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner

Press
gooood, February 2024
ArchDaily, February 2024
Dezeen, January 2024
BU Today, December 2023
Canadian Architect, December 2023
THE PLAN, December 2023
ADF Web Magazine, December 2023
AZURE, November 2023
Interior Design, July 2023
AZURE, January 2023
Dezeen, December 2022
Forbes, December 2022
The Architect’s Newspaper, December 2022
The Boston Globe, December 2022
Bloomberg, April 2022
The Boston Globe, March 2022
Boston Real Estate Times, October 2021
New England Real Estate Journal, October 2021
BU Today, September 2021
BU Today, February 2021
Archinect, December 2020
Bustler, December 2020
Canadian Architect, December 2020 
Archinect, March 2020
Business Insider, February 2020
Ablenaa Magazine, February 2020
Mann Report, February 2020
Trendhunter, February 2020
Fast Company, February 2020
inhabitat, January 2020
High Profile, December 2019
CTBUH, December 2019 
Boston Real Estate Times, December 2019 
Globe St, December 2019 
The Globe and Mail, December 2019 
CommonWealth Magazine, December 2019 
Curbed Boston, December 2019 
BU.edu, October 2019 
BU.edu, July 2019 
BU Today, July 2019
WHDH-TV, July 2019
Boston Globe, July 2019 
Curbed Boston, July 2019
Building Design + Construction, April 2019 
A & B Magazine, April 2019
The Daily Free Press, January 2019
School Construction News, January 2019
AECCafe, November 2018
Canadian Architect, November 2018
Intelligent Glass Solutions, October 2018
ArchDaily, October 2018
Philadelphia Business Journal, October 2018
The Architect’s Newspaper, October 2018
Archinect, October 2018
Building Magazine, October 2018
Canadian Architect, October 2018
Bostonia, October 2018
Biz Journals, October 2018
Connect Media, October 2018
Curbed Boston, October 2018
ABC Boston, WCVB, October 2018
The Boston Globe (Letter to the Editor), October 2018
WHDH 7 News, October 2018
Curbed Boston, October 2018
Boston Globe, October 2018
Boston Globe, October 2018
BU Today, October 2018
Boston Business Journal, October 2018
Design Build Network, October 2018
CBS Boston, October 2018
World Construction Network, October 2018