The Mayflower Building, Boston College
Boston College’s bespoke learning centre for young people and adults, ‘The Mayflower’ officially completed in 2025, with a footprint of 1,940sqm and a gross internal floor area of approximately 2,880sqm. The remodelling of the site included 74 car parking spaces and 60 bicycle parking spaces on the site for learners, staff and visitors, together with botanical gardens for the whole community to share.
The two-storey teaching building provides spaces for new start up businesses in the business hub wing, also voluntary services, careers advice, health and wellbeing support, and opportunities for skills development. It will be home to University-Level students being trained in the art of commercial catering, working and learning in the new large commercial standard kitchen & bakery training rooms and also accommodating on-site student-led fine dining restaurant, called “1620” (a nod to the date the original Mayflower sailed from Boston).
The impressive entrance function space is a large open plan atrium with a feature roof formed by five glulam beams, 13 metres high with the area lit by 30no. controllable, dimmable 1200mm diameter Halo Lights. The roof is constructed by built up system aluminium standing seam with a gold finish externally, to visualise the ship’s main sail. Internally it follows the form of a ship’s hull, with the beams visible from inside. It was designed as a nod to the original Mayflower Ship that took the founding fathers to America in 1620.
Drayton Windows Designed, supplied and installed:
- Senior PURe System Windows
- Senior PURe Commercial Door
- Senior SFG Door – (Plant room doors)
- Senior SF52 Curtain Wall