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Photo courtesy of Dyer Brown
What: MIT Federal Credit Union headquarters
Where: 70 Westview St., Lexington
Owner: MIT Federal Credit Union
Built: 1987
MIT Federal Credit Union’s new Lexington headquarters spans 25,000 square feet of renovated space at a Lexington office building redesigned by Boston-based architects Dyer Brown.
Dyer Brown’s multidisciplinary design team took into consideration banking security issues by locating critical data infrastructure above the 100-year flood line to protect electronic records, including a top-floor data center that connects to the Cambridge campus via duplicate writing for redundancy.
Circulation areas were updated with all public-facing spaces surrounding an interconnecting stair atrium, including a second-floor cafe. The reception area features a color palette of warm grays with geometric pops of red “pixels” to emphasize the credit union’s brand identity.
They Said It:
“MIT Federal Credit Union wanted a cutting-edge workplace, full of light and with a clean, modern appearance, as well as welcoming and exhibiting strong ties to the campus community and brand. These clear goals for the project emerged from our client engagement workshops, a thorough and collaborative visioning process that involved MIT Federal Credit Union leaders and employees.”
— Ashley Dunn, director of workplace, Dyer Brown
