The first privately financed LEED Platinum office building in America.

“I’ve always thought Genzyme was marvelous, probably the best office space ever created in or near Boston.”

— Robert Campbell, Boston Globe architecture critic

Status: Sold to BioMed Realty Trust in 2005
Address: 500 Kendall Street, Cambridge, MA
Project: Kendall Square
Architect: Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner
Builder: Turner Construction
Awards: 2005 US Green Building Council LEED Platinum; 2004 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Projects Award; 2005 NAIOP Green Development Award; 2004 AIA Excellence in Sustainable Design Award; 2010 Forbes Magazine: The Five Most Important Green Buildings; 2008 Harleston Parker Medal for “The Most Beautiful Building” In Boston

Genzyme Center

The Genzyme Building is surrounded by Kendall Square's outdoor space and many amenities.

The 12-story atrium and lobby feature a mobile that is both an artistic gesture and a mechanism for refracting daylight. (Photo: Peter Vanderwarker)

The building received the 2008 Harleston Parker Medal, the highest honor awarded by the Boston Society of Architects/AIA recognizing “the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument or structure within the City or Metropolitan Parks District limits.”

The Genzyme Corporation helped make Cambridge into the biotech center it is today, and is often ranked as one of the top places to work in the hot Boston biotech world. (Photo: Peter Vanderwarker)