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Prime Therapeutics - Boulder Lakes Office
Eagan, MN
Project development, function and design
This office building is a headquarters campus for 2,000 occupants. With employee well-being at the heart of the design, the interior environment is light-filled and flexible with open stairways to promote internal mobility and collaboration. Amenitie… Read More
Nearly 70,000 square feet of both black and white insulated precast concrete spandrels with an acid etch and polished finishes were used on the exterior façade. The precast producer was involved in an extensive collaborative effort with HGA in designing the structural systems to support precast.
The slender, ivory colored, horizontal spandrel elements give the building a visual lightness. A vertical precast concrete fin, featuring a polished front edge, punctuates the building facades at 15’ on center. Projecting beyond the spandrel units, the fins cast shadows that change throughout the da… Read More
The intent for the exterior facade of the Class-A corporate campus office building was to have uninterrupted horizontal bands of sparkling white architectural precast spandrels with prominent projecting sills and deep reveals within the spandrel. To disrupt the continuous ten-foot high ribbon of gla… Read More
The designers wanted the lowest level of the office building to be a bold architectural platform emphasizing the light-look of the architectural precast spandrels and ribbons of glass on the levels above. A vertical element a little heavier than the window mullions to break up the horizontal look of… Read More
The Prime Therapeutics Boulder Lakes Office features and precast concrete and glass exterior. The aesthetic of the precast is elevated by horizontal banding (acid etch finish), vertical accent fins (polished face), color variation, and textural differences. A timeless architecture is achieved throug… Read More
Since the location site location was near a lake that could not be disturbed, the team had to come up with an alternative plan to erect the panels, as a result, nearly a quarter of this project was blind set, installation of the precast on north side was had to set over the building with a 400 ton c… Read More
