X4 Pharmaceuticals

X4 Pharmaceuticals ("X4") sought a new workspace designed to further encourage a sense of community for colleagues to gather and connect within different work styles and settings. Our standard project approach helps us understand the client's needs and brand as a design foundation, which was the deciding factor for X4’s team when selecting Bergmeyer for the project. Together, we discovered that smaller, more intimate meeting rooms and a Town Hall would benefit the X4 team. These alternate spaces allow for small group meetings with colleagues in other locations.

Creating a new workplace representative of a company's culture within an existing space in a historic building makes for many potential design challenges, especially when the chosen space is larger than the original budget anticipated. Add to that additional expenses that arise from the need to meet critical building infrastructure needs, and careful decisions must be made.

In this situation, choosing a Design Collaborative like Bergmeyer with long-standing experience and familiarity with designing and permitting within historic cities like Boston is an ideal way to overcome many unforeseen challenges. Starting with an existing white box, the scope included visioning for the interior design with a full interior fit-out, historical review, new interior communicating stairs to connect two floors, furniture, fixtures, equipment, and structural coordination with the building's landlord.

Through diligent coordination and communication with the client, MEP engineers, and the building’s landlord, our workplace team guided X4 through the process of designing their new office on a grander scale, successfully meeting their vision of a collaborative space without sacrificing the integrity of the original design and budget.