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225 Franklin Street
Boston, MA
Corporate interior
225 Franklin is a 34-story classic 1970s office tower with a glass-and-concrete façade. The original lobby design was a series of paths forming a maze-like progression to access the 23 elevator banks. CBT’s design reconfigured the ground floor creating an open, contemporary entrance that transports this building into the new millennium.
A dramatic addition to this gut renovation is a 22-foot-tall structural glass curtain wall separating the interior from the exterior and providing for a natural-light filled “Great Room” with views of Post Office Square. The column-less glass wall is stabilized by vertical and horizontal glass fins.
The backdrop for the Great Room is a wall made of Italian Paonazzo marble setting the warm palette for the entire lobby. The reception desk is carved from a single block of the same Italian stone with quarter-sawn Mozambique wood accents serving as a complement to the wood walls stepping towards the elevators. The floor is a rich crystalline brown stone that allows the stunning feature wall to glow. A luminous, seamless ceiling washes the space in light and presents a limitless feel.
Corporate interior
225 Franklin is a 34-story classic 1970s office tower with a glass-and-concrete façade. The original lobby design was a series of paths forming a maze-like progression to access the 23 elevator banks. CBT’s design reconfigured the ground floor creating an open, contemporary entrance that transports this building into the new millennium.
A dramatic addition to this gut renovation is a 22-foot-tall structural glass curtain wall separating the interior from the exterior and providing for a natural-light filled “Great Room” with views of Post Office Square. The column-less glass wall is stabilized by vertical and horizontal glass fins.
The backdrop for the Great Room is a wall made of Italian Paonazzo marble setting the warm palette for the entire lobby. The reception desk is carved from a single block of the same Italian stone with quarter-sawn Mozambique wood accents serving as a complement to the wood walls stepping towards the elevators. The floor is a rich crystalline brown stone that allows the stunning feature wall to glow. A luminous, seamless ceiling washes the space in light and presents a limitless feel.