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Women’s Lunch Place Volunteering
Over the weekend, several of Arrowstreeters and myself, volunteered our Saturday morning to help prepare and serve breakfast at the Women’s Lunch Place in the Back Bay. It’s always a rewarding feeling giving back to the community that we live in, but it’s also extra special when we can experience the spaces that Arrowstreet creates in a full functioning capacity….
Earth Month at Arrowstreet
Each April is Earth Month at Arrowstreet. This year we ran a series of educational and collaborative environmental events throughout the month including a conversation about the role of bees in the ecosystem and how hives can be incorporated into architecture. Other events included a pecha-kucha, presentations on resiliency and advocacy, documentary screenings, green building tours, and green trivia. As…
Arrowstreet’s VR/AR Team at SXSW
SXSW, Austin’s annual festival has transformed into an innovation hub for tech drawing crowds of designers, planners, visionaries, and game changers. Arrowstreet’s VR/AR Design + Development team spent five days in the Capital City, seeking insight and answers to complex questions centered around how the rapidly evolving innovations in tech will drastically inform the future of place-making, visualization, and the…
Greybarn Phase 2 Construction is Underway
While Phase 1, 10 Greybarn Lane is quickly filling up with tenants, our contractor, Racanelli Construction Co. Inc., is keeping busy building the next phase of the project to meet demand. Phase 2, which includes Buildings 20 and 30 Greybarn Lane are taking shape and will provide an additional 155 units, schedule for completion in Fall 2017. Amenities like a…
Demonstrating Virtual Reality for Architecture at HUBweek
As a part of the HUBweek festival, Arrowstreet participated in Harvard Innovation Lab’s “Explore the Emerging Worlds of Augmented and Virtual Reality” event. Our team presented work using the GearVR and the HTC Vive to immerse visitors in how we are using Virtual Reality as part of our design process. We showed interior and exterior 360-degree views of a boutique…
Saturday Morning at Women’s Lunch Place
At the end of August, I joined a few members of our staff for Arrowstreet’s annual volunteer session at the Women’s Lunch Place, an amazing Back Bay facility designed by Arrowstreet for homeless women. It was an honor and humbling experience to volunteer in the kitchen – prepping, cooking, serving, and seeing the many faces and personalities of the women who utilize…
Generating a Culture of Women’s Leadership
We were given the opportunity to participate in a pilot program for women’s leadership in the design industry run by The Coxe Group – a consulting firm who provides business management guidance to design firms, including Arrowstreet. At first, we were skeptical of the program being ‘women only.’ We are trained as architects, not female architects, and had reservations about pointlessly…
Arrowstreet Walking Tour: East Boston
We traveled across Boston Harbor via water taxi last week for the first of our summer walking tours. East Boston is becoming one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city, and underutilized land on the waterfront is being made accessible to the public at a number of new developments. Our tour weaved through the neighborhood, stopping at three new mixed-use…
Economical Design and Boston’s Housing Gap
If you live in the greater Boston area, you’re aware of Boston’s current housing crunch and just how expensive it is to live here; according to a report from real estate data firm Reis, Inc., the average rent in Greater Boston topped $2,000 in 2015. Development and construction in desirable, urban areas is expensive, and as a result, it is often…
Interiors at the HD Expo
The interiors team at Arrowstreet recently took a trip to the Hospitality Design Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. With several upcoming hospitality projects set to begin within the next few weeks, we were in search of new and innovative products and materials. With over 250,000 square feet of booth space and 800 individual exhibitors, there was certainly not a shortage…