Paying careful attention to technological efficiency, the Macallen Building is a 350,000sf mixed-use project which is a fully-integrated systems building whose environmentally-focused features made it the first LEED Gold certified multi-family housing building in Boston. While technologically state-of-the-art, this building pays careful attention to its surroundings and carefully responds to adjacent context to inform its architectural language. Each face of the building draws from different neighborhood context. The building’s western end responds to the Boston skyline with a glass curtain wall that yields panoramic views, while the eastern end slopes down to mirror the neighborhood’s traditional building fabric of brickwork and storefronts. The north and south facades respond to the industrial buildings in the neighborhood with dynamic bronzed aluminum cladding. 

The Macallen building was awarded the prestigious AIA Housing Award for Multifamily Housing and was named one of the Top Ten Green Projects in 2008 by AIA/COTE.