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Touring Italy’s Tile Manufacturers
This Fall, Arrowstreet interiors had the unique opportunity to join Tony Butlin of Division 9 Collaborative on a tour of tile manufacturers in Sassuolo, Italy. The Italian province is an industrial hub and home to hundreds of tile manufacturing showrooms and factories, including Valmori, Lea Ceramiche, 41 Zero 42, Ceramiche Piemme, Target, 14Ora, Provenza and Iris. Not only was the…
Arrowstreet Receives a SCUP Honor Award For Excellence in Planning
Arrowstreet receives prestigious SCUP Honor for its Sustainable Roof Study at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Environmental tool will enable MIT to reduce campus carbon emissions by 32 percent by 2030 BOSTON (July 18, 2018) – Arrowstreet Inc., a local architecture and design firm, is pleased to announce its MIT Sustainable Roof Study and Planning Tool is the recipient of…
A Boutique Hotel’s Façade Goes Up in 13 Days
If you took a vacation in May and noticed what looks like a new building downtown when you returned, here’s a brief version of the story. A 163-room boutique style hotel, combining contemporary materials with historic details, got a new face. With one third of the building being an addition, the new façade became critical in creating an identity for…
An Architect’s Experience at Google I/O 2018
Google I/O is an annual event that brings together developers and creators from around around the world to Google’s home base in Mountain View, CA. For three days, the Shoreline Amphitheater is packed with sessions, codelabs, tech sandboxes, hands-on learning with Google experts, and a first look at the latest releases of products. Despite the exciting nature of I/O,…
Innovative Techniques Appear on Congress Square
Architects Push the Limits of Old Materials in New Construction Featured in Banker & Tradesman | April, 15, 2018 A few years ago, during my time as an associate at an architectural, urban planning and engineering firm, I was the lead technical designer on Poly International Plaza (Poly) in Beijing, China. The client wanted an iconic building, something that people…
Arrowstreet Wins Architecture at Zero Competition
A joint collaboration between Arrowstreet, Copley Wolff Design Group, and HTM Office/Madrid received the Merit Award in the 2018 Architecture at Zero design competition. This international competition presented by PG&E, San Francisco State University, and the AIA California Council challenged entrants to create a zero net energy bayside community education and visitor’s center, for SFSU’s Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental…
Touring Toronto’s Furniture Showrooms & Factories
As we kick off a new year, Arrowstreet’s Interiors Studio is reflecting back on 2017 and looking forward to all that 2018 has in store. The past year was full of opportunities to network and make connections in the design community as well as advance our knowledge of the latest and greatest interior products. We would especially like to thank…
The Arrowstreet Annual Ugly & Savage
‘Twas the night of the Yankee Swap, and all through the firm Not an Architect was working, not even the printers throughout the whole firm The gifts were laid out in the Voodoo Lounge with care In hopes that all the participants would soon be there; The Architects were nestled all snug with a beer, While the ugly sweaters appeared…
Arrowstreet wins the 2017 Design Technology Throwdown at ABX!
Congratulations to Arrowstreet’s team of Tristan McGuire, Gabi Baierle-Atwood, Katherine Chin, Edbert Cheng, and Alfred To for winning the 2017 Design Technology Throwdown at ABX! During a 4-hour competition, the team completed a site analysis and design for a live-work building centered around urban agriculture that would supply an organic supermarket at the street level for a proposed site in…
Arrowstreet Selected to Renovate the Children’s Room at Thayer Library
Arrowstreet was selected to design the renovation of the Children’s Room at Thayer Public Library in the Town of Braintree. This project blends the firm’s extensive experience in our Learning Environments, Graphic Design, and Interior Design studios. This active space in the library is in need of updating to accommodate growing demands, expanded programming, updated technology, and a flexible environment…