Tag: office
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New England Power Service Company
Computer & Accounting Center Westborough, MA, 1963 by Anderson, Beckwith & Haible The former home of the New England Power Service Co. (now part of National Grid) and later BJs Wholesale Club, this massive three building complex now sits vacant overlooking Route 9 and the Westborough/Southborough border. The complex consists of three interconnected structures on…
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Centros House
Framingham, MA, 1984 by August Associates Despite its name, Centros House is a six story, 166,500 square foot office building located on Old Connecticut Path in Framingham. The name comes from the British developer of the site, Centros Properties, continuing the English tradition of naming important office buildings ‘House’. The black steel and glass upper…
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Speen Street Office Buildings
Framingham, MA 1976-1980 by Hughes and MacCarthy This stalwart collection of modern office buildings began as a single headquarters for the Consolidated Group Trust insurance company in 1976 by the Framingham-based firm Hughes and MacCarthy. The site was chosen for its visibility from the Massachusetts Turnpike and significant regrading was done to lift the building…
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Point West Place
Framingham, MA, 1985 by Robert AM Stern This year at MetroWest Modern we are broadening the scope of our project to take a look at Modern architecture’s successor, Postmodernism. While we’ll still focus primarily on Modernism, it’s hard to ignore the rich history of Postmodern architecture that runs through the region. No building represents this…
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Carousel Office Park
Framingham, MA, 1971, 1978 by Beckstoffer and Associates A lesser known development by famous developer Gerald Hines, the Carousel Office Park consists of one massive structure broken up into three connected buildings. The structure was originally built with only two, but a third building for office space was added less than ten years later. All…
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47 Church St, 1 Abbott St, & 34 Central St
Wellesley, MA, 1961, by Mary Ellen (Marilyn) Fraser, AIA In many ways, Wellesley Square is a prototypical New England downtown -a tight street lined with shoppers and restaurants and sprinkled with churches and municipal hubs. Most of the town’s modern and contemporary architecture has been carefully locked behind the gates of Wellesley College. But tucked…
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Metrowest Place
Framingham, MA, 1969 by Fletcher Thompson Spend any amount of time admiring modern architecture and you’re sure to notice that many iconic designs are coated in the iconic orange of the truck rental company UHaul. The company prides itself on buying underutilized, often oversized buildings and converting them into facilities for storage or truck pickup.…
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The Ewen Knight Corporation Headquarters
Natick, MA, 1960, By Samuel Glaser The Ewen Knight Corporation was founded in 1952 to develop radio technology for Harvard University’s Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts and would go on to become a major radio equipment distributor for observatories including the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The building was designed by noted Architect Samuel Glaser…
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Wellesley Office Park Building No. 4
Wellesley, MA, 1970, Pietro Belluschi and Jung/Brannen Associates Built in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Wellesley Office Park has a uniquely singular vision for most of its buildings. Most of the original buildings share the same palette of exposed steel, orange brick and tiles, and mirrored glass windows and landscape elements such as…