176 Lincoln
The 176 Lincoln project re-envisions the building’s third life as a mixed-use ‘maker space’ with adjacent residences and offices to serve entrepreneurial tech start-ups.
176 Lincoln
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5.2 Acres
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In Design Development
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CBT Architects, architect
KMDG, landscape architect
Howard Stein Hudson, civil and traffic -
Housing + Mixed-use
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Design Distill, renderings
Boston, MA
176 Lincoln is a maker space and innovation district. Originally a 1920s-era steel fabrication building, an institution and developer-led project repurposed it in the 1990s into a large floor plate, high floor-to-floor raw lab space that never saw a tenant fit-out.
This project re-envisions the building’s third life as a mixed-use ‘maker space’ with adjacent residences and offices to serve entrepreneurial tech start-ups. The design introduces new ‘shell and core’ elements within the existing column and slab infrastructure, but the exterior, publicly-oriented spaces are the key components to this redevelopment. Some spaces are envisioned as extensions of the maker-spaces in which prototypes and larger elements can be assembled, tested, or weathered outside. Other spaces draw from this ‘maker aesthetic’ to become animated social spaces for gathering, events, retail functions like cafes, or as semi-private landscapes for residential dwellings in the complex.
