The Macallen Building is a multi family building in South Boston, designed to incorporate green design as a way of marketing a green lifestyle while at the same time increasing revenue from the project by Boston based architecture firm office dA, Inc.

This building located in a transitional site that mediates between highway off-ramps, an old residential fabric, and an industrial zone, the building negotiates different scales and urban configurations.

The Macallen Building was designed from the ground up to take advantage of “green” building techniques and materials. Some of the green …