We are thrilled to announce we’ve been selected to lead the design of Bates College’s 54,000 GSF New Science Building. It will house research and teaching labs, a variety of classrooms and spaces for students to study and meet.
This project is exciting because it’s “really is about putting people together who have shared research areas and shared research needs” rather than separating them in quarters according to discipline, says Ryan Bavis, co-chair of Bates’ STEM Facilities Building Committee and the Helen A. Papaioanou Professor of Biological Sciences, as quoted in the Bates College announcement about the project.
We look forward to working with Bates College on designing a home for the college’s chemistry, biology and neuroscience programs that will reflect current thinking in science pedagogy and incorporate cutting-edge technologies.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.