✦ Commercial · Boston, Massachusetts

Algorand Headquarters

Original build · 2020 refresh
Lead image — the vestibule, electrochromic glass clearing to reveal the floor
AS SEEN ON
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Office Snapshots
✦ design intention

Algorand was building more than a headquarters. As an emerging technology company, it needed a workplace that felt innovative without becoming intimidating, a space that expressed technological ambition while remaining human and connected. The design sought to express that balance from arrival through the final workspace, technology made human.

✦ the arrival

YYou arrive in near-darkness: a glowing red arrow, a flickering vintage monitor, a spotlighted phone. The room asks you to slow down before revealing anything else. When the call is answered, the electrochromic glass dissolves instantaneously, flooding the space with daylight and revealing the entire workspace beyond. Before a word is spoken, the room has already made its case.

Every space beyond continues the same conversation. An open workplace unfolds: focus rooms, collaborative settings, and meeting spaces woven together into a landscape of connection. Leadership sits within the same ecosystem rather than apart from it. Exposed concrete is balanced by refined finishes and a controlled palette of muted greens, purples, and blues.

❖ Materials & finishes

Every material was chosen to reinforce the same idea: innovation without intimidation, precision without coldness. Technology made human.

Material and fabric board — swap for the flat-lay photo

❖ project imagery

Open office · Private conference or lounge · All hands and event area · Workstations

Material and fabric board — swap for the flat-lay photo
Collaboration spaceDining or communal area
Open office third area
Conference or loungeMaterial or detail
Best wide room shot
❖ 2020 refresh

Designed once, then re-tuned when the world changed what people needed from the room.

When the team returned in 2020, the headquarters didn't need reinventing. It needed re-tuning. Furniture and planning were reconsidered for new distances and new patterns of gathering. Fabric workstation dividers became glass, preserving openness and sightlines while allowing the workplace to adapt. The same architectural bones, flexed to support a different way of working.

Area one, original layout
area one, original layout
Area one, re-tuned
area one re-tuned
Area two, fabric dividers
area two, fabric dividers
Area two, glass dividers
area two, glass dividers
❖ bespoke pieces

Custom furnishings and partitions were designed specifically for this headquarters. Each piece was designed as part of the architecture, rather than introduced as furniture after the fact.

Reception deskConference tableBanquette
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