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| Genzyme's HQ named the most beautiful building in Boston  Genzyme Corp. announced that its global corporate headquarters, Genzyme Center, is the 2008 recipient of the Harleston Parker Medal, a unique design award presented periodically by the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) and the City of Boston. The Harleston Parker jury is charged with identifying the most beautiful building or other structure built in the greater Boston area during the past decade. The jury evaluated approximately 170 nominations from BSA members and partners for the award, which was established in 1921 by Boston architect J. Harleston Parker.Designed by the Stuttgart, Germany-, and Los Angeles-based architecture firm Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner, in collaboration with Boston-based Next Phase Studios Architects, Genzyme Center is a twelve-story, 350,000-square-foot building located in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a world-class center for biomedical research and innovation. Situated on the former site of an industrial plant, the building is helping to transform a polluted "brownfield" into a vital urban community. Nearly 75 percent of the materials used in Genzyme Center contain recycled content, and over 90 percent of construction waste was recycled. Since the building opened, more than 15,000 visitors have toured Genzyme Center. Genzyme Center has also received awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Association of General Contractors, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association and the Environmental Business Council of New England. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |