Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Integrating leading-edge technologies and prioritizing connection to the fresh air, the Three Eighty Stuart high-rise, designed by Herni Celli and CBT Architects for Skanska USA Commercial Development, features a high-performance façade and one-hundred-percent outdoor air ventilation.
Rising next to older, rectangular neighbors, the tower has curves, not corners, and open-air terraces instead of an enclosed box.
This is architecture that includes and embraces as it rises in a gentle undulation, its distinctive curved terraces open to the sky.
For its sustainable design, 380 Stuart has been awarded a 2024 Green Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Like no other Boston building today, 380 Stuart is a 642,000-square-foot tower that fulfills dual goals of contemporary tenant requirements and contemporary climate care as an inclusive host and an environmentally conscious neighbor.
One of the city’s first all-electric buildings, its heat pump and chilled-beam HVAC system eliminate fossil fuels for heating and cooling, significantly reducing the operational carbon footprint.
The 28-story building’s exceptionally low carbon footprint aligns both with our planet’s urgent environmental needs, as well as tenants whose companies’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.
Today, offices must be destinations that offer inclusive, accessible environments, inside and out.
380 Stuart’s designers reinvented popular office amenities to ensure genuine inclusivity, including the lobby’s cascading social stairs, designed for access by those on foot or wheels, and integrating building-wide all-gender restrooms.
To bring the workforce a useful variety of conveniences when working in the office, second-floor amenity spaces are designed with infrastructure and finishings for a variety of pop-up services— for example, a dry cleaner or tailor one day, a flower shop, or a gift-wrapping station around the holidays.
Featuring fully accessible exterior spaces, tenants have access to the building’s West Plaza, a ground-level pocket park, a green roof deck, and 22 private tenant terraces that provide vital, egalitarian access to the outdoors for all building users.
Completely electrified, Boston’s eye-catching, carbon-minimizing 380 Stuart Street tower is in the vanguard of future-ready office design.
It is among the first to be developed in a major urban center that reflects what commercial tenants need with the hindsight of our shared pandemic experience.
Designed to LEED Platinum v4.0 standards, 380 Stuart is human-centric and environmentally responsible. Tenant health, wellness, inclusivity, climate-conscious goals, and outdoor access drive this exemplar of next-generation commercial architecture.
Project:
Architects: CBT Architects
Lead Architect: Henry Celli
Client: Skanska USA Commercial Development, Inc.
Renderings: Courtesy of the Architects
