The Boston Society of Architects recently announced their 2024 Design Award winners and we are proud to have collaborated on four of the winning projects.

2024 Built Design Excellence Awards

Nestled between rolling hills, ancient trees, and ivy-clad buildings, the Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum is a sustainable, light-filled academic venue that seamlessly integrates a semi-historic home with a sleek glass and stone addition to create a dynamic hub for learning and collaboration. Inspired by the ancient lyceums of Athens, the project centralizes the college’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) and adjacent academic departments. The design leverages the adjacencies of offices, classrooms, ground floor event space, and an outdoor terrace all connected by an open commons and abundant “in-between” spaces. Designed to inspire intellectual exchange, its spacious interiors and sweeping views establish a new place for the community to share thoughts, ideas, and work.

Architect: Bruner/Cott Architects
Lighting Designer: Lam Partners

The seven-acre Downtown Cary Park is the centerpiece of an investment by the Town of Cary to enhance, expand, and protect the public vibrancy of their growing community. Starting from the development of a master plan informed by extensive community engagement, the team worked to design the park as a cohesive assemblage of landscape and architecture.

Architect: Machado Silvetti
Lighting Designer: Lam Partners

This client is a world leader in the development and production of enzymes for molecular biology applications. In addition to serving as a new production facility with expansion of development and quality control labs, the project contains a conferencing center, underground parking, diverse collaboration spaces, and multiple roof terraces.

In addition to the original research, development and manufacturing needs, the new 165,000-square-foot Garden Expansion building grew to include a variety of social amenities and breakout spaces and a campus-wide conference center. 

Architect: ARC / Architecture Resources Cambridge, Inc.
Lighting Designers: Lam Partners

A reimagining of the historic “Top of the Hub” aimed to repurpose underutilized and outdated space at the Prudential Tower to create a new type of public experience. View Boston is a point of arrival and point of departure for locals and visitors alike to discover the City of Boston and an iconic landmark from a new perspective.

This three-floor episodic experience is surgically woven through the building, with unique spaces stitched together through an architecturally clear manner that guides visitors intuitively though the space.

Transported into the sky, guests exit the elevators and are greeted by a view of the skyline seen through the iconic “Prudential” sign. Materials and details heighten the experience of the view through luminosity and transparency, creating an emotional connection to the City below and the sky above.

Architect: Perkins+Will
Lighting Designers: Lam Partners