The new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex defines Northeastern University’s expansion across major rail lines reconnecting two Boston neighborhoods. The site for the new high performance research building provided an opportunity to strengthen the Columbus Avenue corridor, improve pedestrian connections and create new open space and streetscape amenities to be shared with the surrounding community.
Similar to the building location connecting two neighborhoods, the atrium, with its signature staircase, brings together teaching and research as one collaborative research culture. By strategically placing all the offices, staff workstations, conference rooms, break areas, cafes and research labs look across the atrium, all the pedestrian traffic is centered around the atrium space creating a vibrant shared social hub of the building.
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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