{"id":121012,"date":"2025-07-08T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=121012"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:59:51","slug":"the-st-regis-residences-boston-2023","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/projects\/the-st-regis-residences-boston-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The St. Regis Residences | 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Elkus Manfredi Archtiects<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Boston\u2019s historic waterfront, the St. Regis Residences Boston is located on Boston Harbor in the Seaport District. Totaling 319,650 square feet, 22 stories, the 250-foot-tall building houses 114 residences plus three levels of below-grade parking. Occupying the first two levels is an 8,138-sf restaurant with 2,073 square feet of exterior terrace set alongside the adjacent Harbor walk, the public pathway that traverses Boston Harbor\u2019s perimeter. Public open space occupies approximately 60% of the ground floor. <\/p>\n<p>The architecture was guided by the principal objectives of: connecting with the harbor and the Seaport\u2019s deep ties to shipping and sailing, contributing to activation of the waterfront and Harbor walk and capitalizing on site constraints to create vertical proportion and add complexity.<\/p>\n<p>The aim was to create a building prepared for the future \u2013 resilient and sustainable, prioritizing community connectivity, occupant well-being, reduced overall electricity and water consumption, and management of rising sea levels.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges included: the highly constrained 15,504-sf site, the state requirements for public access and views to the waterfront, a 250-ft height limitation by the FAA and to accommodate rising sea levels and storm surges.<\/p>\n<p>Complex, compelling, and aesthetically arresting, the building\u2019s design evokes the billowing sails of schooners plying the seas. Its entire exterior is a unitized curtainwall of silver-blue glass that creates an ethereal, shimmering presence reflecting the harbor\u2019s skies and waters. Anything but a simple glass box, the building\u2019s form changes when viewed from different vantage points, shape-shifting for passersby. <\/p>\n<p>The east fa\u00e7ade features five deep \u201cpleats\u201d that conjure up a tall ship under full sail and give the building movement and drama, appearing to twist on a central axis as the pleats rise in a state of torsion twisting north at the top and south at the bottom. Only the east fa\u00e7ade twists; the south fa\u00e7ade\u2019s \u201csails\u201d \u2013 projecting bays that rise the height of the building \u2013 are a counterpoint to the east fa\u00e7ade. The other fa\u00e7ades are perpendicular, acting like a sailboat\u2019s masts to bring stability and a central element around which other elements are organized. Tilted structural columns run continuously from the building base to the top, their location changing on each level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120825,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[164,147],"class_list":["post-121012","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-164","portfolio_category-residential-towers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/121012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/121012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121194,"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/121012\/revisions\/121194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurehouseaward.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=121012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}