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The massing’s unique shaping evolved from technical site constraints and a desire to create a more cohesive and welcoming pedestrian experience. An underground tunnel steered the team toward an arched structure, distributing the building’s weight away from the center, landing it instead at the corners of the site to avoid the existing conditions below grade. That approach created a column-free interior space at the base of the building with unlimited flexibility for programming and design. The mass pulls up off the ground, opening the base of the building to more public access to the ground floors. The integration of a public park that connects to the building architecture provides an accessible and welcoming public realm while navigating a significant urban elevation change.
Architecture and landscape act as one to reconcile multiple urban conditions. An uninterrupted public park serves as a link for two roads in a multistory intersection, mediating the grade change with a universally accessible and densely vegetated pedestrian experience while providing safe passage across interstate traffic at an on and off ramp exchange. The project fills a gap in the built environment between two urban corridors, creating a welcoming contrast to the existing hardscaped and insular urban condition of the surrounding area. Maximum transparency at the ground floor façade engages pedestrians, encouraging visitors to enter into the interior public spaces, bringing the landscape in and through, continuing the seamless indoor and outdoor experience.
The first project in Boston to receive SITES pre-certification, 10 World Trade is set to achieve Gold level certification for SITES, LEED, and WELL, and Platinum certifications for WiredScore and SmartScore. Also a first in the city, the building facades utilize ViewGlass, electrochromic glazing that adjusts to sunlight, solar gain, and glare in real time, reducing energy usage across building systems. The triple glazed curtain wall further improves building performance, reducing the energy usage by keeping heat out in the summer, and in during the winter. Densely vegetated landscapes and native species store rainwater in heavy rain events while not requiring additional irrigation systems, removing the use of potable water and eliminating polluted stormwater runoff to the ocean.
With over 200,000 sf of lab space, 255,000+ sf of office, 8,000 sf for cultural uses, 6,500 sf of retail, and 40,000 sf of outdoor public realm, 10 World Trade delivers a human-scaled, inclusive and welcoming approach to commercial development. Rethinking the urban mixed-use program, the project is a bold commercial office product with an integrated public realm at the ground floors, offering a truly unique and captivating tenant and community experience. Lifting the building off the ground brings the public to and through the spaces at the lower levels, blurring the lines between public and private space in a 21st century life science building. The pushing of the corners and the curving of the facades creates an elegant building in a tight urban context that engages with its surroundings while standing firm as an architectural marvel in a dense city neighborhood. The design emphasizes its presence in the city by extending its edges beyond the site, figuratively and literally, reaching out and up to draw people in. In today’s ever-changing climate, 10 World Trade breaks the mold for sustainable development. With high performance facades, state of the art building systems, and a nationally certified SITES landscape, this design goes above and beyond environmentally responsible design and raises the bar for built environments in urban contexts, particularly along coastal flood zones. 10 World Trade is a stellar example of strong design, across all aspects of the built world.
The envisioned project rethinks the urban mixed-use program to fully capitalize on the potential of the site—establishing a public realm that is not just usable, but active and energized twelve months a year. During the best days of summer it will be open and airy, and during the worst days of winter it will glow with greenery and warmth from within. It’s a design that will deliver an office product offering a truly different and captivating tenant experience.
At Sasaki, defining the future of place is a collective, contextual, and values-driven exercise. We bring together the best of architecture, interior design, planning and urban design, space planning, landscape architecture, and civil engineering to shape the places in which we live. Out of our multiple offices, we are changing the contours of place and redefining what’s possible along the way. We are a diverse practice of over 300 professionals who share a singular passion for creating authentic, equitable, and inspiring places. We challenge ourselves to think beyond today and into the future, delivering architecture and design that catalyzes communities, promotes quality and craft, and engages people in an inclusive and welcoming built environment. From public realm to private development, civic spaces to campus settings, Sasaki is imagining a future where good design creates memorable experiences and ample opportunities for all.
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