The NOBULL US Headquarters is a workplace that embraces the lifestyle of people who work hard and don’t accept excuses. The HQ design approach embraces an active workplace, where movement is encouraged in many ways. The HQ also serves as a design, research, and training facility. In addition to apparel, NOBULL produces various forms of media that encourage active living, with podcasts and video production. The space celebrates effort, reveals the artifice of its making, and promotes creative engagement through activity and design. This is not an ordinary HQ; it is the embodiment of the NOBULL attitude.
Project Team
Hansy Better Barraza Anthony J. Piermarini Paul Dahlke Damien Bolden Ignacio Lopez
Structural Engineer
Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering
Code Consultant
Fitzmeyer & Tocci Associates
Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing
& Fire Protection Engineer:
BLW Engineers
Landscape Architect
Design Under Sky
Climbing Wall Designer
Eldorado Climbing
Acoustic Consultant
Eremos
Lighting Designer
CLI Design
Specifications Consultant
Kalin Associates
Photography
Jane Messinger
An Active Workplace
COMPLETE FITNESS ECOSYSTEM
The design approach embraces elements of community, retail and commercial spaces, complementing NOBULL’s principles and pushing past the traditional boundaries of an athletic brand
BRIDGING AESTHETIC AND ATHLETICS
PUSHING TRADITIONAL BOUNDARIES
The headquarters plays to our strengths while allowing us to explore new creative opportunities in the world of fitness and promoting creative engagement through activity and design
ENERGIZED RELATIONSHIPS
TRANSLATING BRAND ETHOS
By matching the energy of NOBULL, we have been able to translate our design process and style into their brand ethos. Our partnership creates an integrated brand experience that serves NOBULL’s multifaceted growth in products, retail pop-ups, community events, film and training content
Project Overview
The design team worked with the NOBULL leadership to design the brand’s new headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. The headquarters creates a total fitness ecosystem with elements of community, retail and commercial spaces, complementing NOBULL’s principles of hard work and dedication while pushing past the traditional boundaries of an athletic brand.
The 100,000 SQFT corporate headquarters bridges aesthetics and crossfit athletics creating an active and versatile workplace. The structure will not only offer a retail store where customers can purchase all of their favorite NOBULL products, but will also feature an indoor track, crossfit gym, yoga, meditation room, climbing wall, locker rooms, saunas, phone booths, a recording studio, a conference suite, smaller conference rooms, a screen room, open floor offices, a kitchen, and lecture hall for community gatherings.