News | July 11th 2024

CBT Wins Three Rethinking the Future Awards!

What do the amenities of a DC residential building, a sustainable office tower in Downtown Boston, and a park-side multifamily residence in Cambridge Crossing have in common? They’re all 2024 Rethinking the Future Award winners.

We are delighted to announce that CBT-designed Central Armature Works, Three Eighty Stuart, and Park 151 have each received a Second Award in the 2024 international Rethinking the Future awards competition in the Residential Interiors, Commercial Design, and Housing Over 5 Floors categories, respectively. The Rethinking the Future Awards are a competitive, international showcase of innovation and future-ready ideas, recognizing creative excellence and inspiring architecture and design from around the globe. These three CBT projects join an impressive roster of innovative, future-oriented designs selected from more than 1,200 entries across 40+ countries.

Anything but a generic ode to an industrial aesthetic, the interior amenities design of The Rigby and Market House -- the two residential towers that make up Central Armature Works in DC's NoMa neighborhood -- represent a model of modern urban dwelling, filled with 65,000 square feet of uncommon common space, indoors and out. With design both refined and abstract, the amenities of both multifamily buildings come alive through subtly synthesized art and craft. Interior material choices, bespoke furnishings, sculptural light fixtures, and artwork throughout give the project a unique aesthetic and a distinctive spirit of place. 

Learn more about Central Armature Works here.

Park 151 is a 20-story, 468-unit residential building at the apex of the 42-acre Cambridge Crossing (CX) neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Expanding on the larger CX vision to transform the site of an inaccessible, contaminated railyard into a vibrant, mixed-use community, Park 151 introduces one of the first multifamily residences to the neighborhood and brings with it a collection of retail and new public spaces. From strategic massing and orientation to a community-driven street presence and colorful, detailed interiors, its design is the architectural embodiment of Cambridge’s character: artistic and scientific, with an elegant minimalism that belies its complexity.

Learn more about Park 151 here.

Like no other Boston building today, Three Eighty Stuart is a 642,000-square-foot tower that is rewriting the script on the sustainable downtown tower. A striking addition to the city skyline, Three Eighty Stuart’s distinctive architecture is equally driven by three pillars of sustainable design: environmental conservation, human health, and the interconnectivity of the urban ecosystem. One of the city’s first all-electric buildings, when completed, the 28-story office building will bring a wholly new form and energy to Boston’s skyline, one that is softer yet charged with subtle, vertical boldness. The tower’s distinct curves and open-air terraces introduce a new architecture that includes and embraces as it rises in a gentle undulation.

Read more about Three Eighty Stuart here.