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Arrowstreet at ALIS
It’s hard to believe, but January is around the corner, and David Bois will be heading out to sunny Los Angeles just as the chill sets in. He will be attending the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) January 25-27th at the JW Marriott and Microsoft Theater. ALIS is the largest hotel investment conference in the world, and it features seminars…
BSA Family Design Day
Join Arrowstreet’s Kachina Studer and Nicole Voss at the BSA for Family Design Day this Saturday for decorating tips and design suggestions from the entrants in the CDRC’s 4th annual Gingerbread House Design Competition. Our ambitious entry of a winter scene at City Hall Plaza required a lot of creativity and hours of teamwork to complete, and we are excited…
City Hall: Naughty or Nice
Arrowstreet’s entry for the Community Design Resource Center’s (CDRC) 4th annual Gingerbread House Design Competition required a lot of engineering consulting, and resulted in a few burnt fingers. We ambitiously chose to create a winter scene at City Hall Plaza. To respond to the theme of “Imagine Boston,” we envisioned an activated plaza with a row of shops, almond people,…
Congratulations to our newest RA!
Congrats to Arrowstreet’s newest registered architect: Nicole Voss! On the traditionally unlucky day of Friday the 13th, Nicole found out that she had passed her final ARE exam, especially impressive given that she only began the process in March. To acknowledge our new RAs, Arrowstreet honors them with $1,000 bonuses…and while it’s not in our office manual, a bottle of…
Arrowstreet among BostInno’s 50 on Fire
Arrowstreet was named a winner in the design category at BostInno’s 50 on Fire Awards! The recipients are driving the innovation economy in Boston (and beyond), and were grouped into 10 categories. A panel of judges comprised of industry-specific community leaders and influencers chose the 50 winners from a pool of 200 finalists; winners were announced at a celebration with…
Arrowstreet Bake-Off!
We held Arrowstreet’s first bake-off this week, and the results were delicious! We are a competitive group, and there were thirteen entries in the “no-rules” contest, from truffles, madeleines, and macarons, to ice cream, cakes, and tarts. The whole office was eager to try everything and we gathered in the kitchen after lunch for the tasting. The line stretched down the…
Building Minority Report
Last Friday evening one of our new team members, Stephen Zuber, spoke at an Arrowstreet Design Forum about some work he had done with interactive multimedia environments. Right out of the Tom Cruise film “Minority Report,” Stephen’s prior project for a university in Texas involved creating a large display wall which was visible to any viewer in the space, was able…
Jordan Zimmermann presenting at ABX 2015
How resilient is East Boston? The Urban Land Institute (ULI) in conjunction with Neighborhood of Affordable Housing with the financial support of the Kresge Foundation, have conducted a Technical Assistance Program (TAP) to study the impacts that climate change has on transportation, utilities, and planning. Find out what they learned from Arrowstreet’s Jordan Zimmermann, along with Michelle Landers, Phil Giffee,…
ULI Boston TAP at ABX
At today’s Arrowstreet Update, our bi-weekly office meeting, Associate Jordan Zimmermann presented the work she has been doing with the ULI Boston TAP (technical assistance panel) program in East Boston. Through the Kresge Foundation, NOAH (Neighborhood of Affordable Housing, East Boston), received a $100,000 grant to fund this research. The TAP had several goals to assist NOAH, including identifying community…
The Great Pumpkin Glow 2015
On Wednesday evening several members of the Arrowstreet team braved the rain and headed over to Kendall Square for the 2015 Great Pumpkin Glow. The annual corporate challenge is sponsored in part by our client, BioMed Realty, and benefits the Boys and Girls Clubs of Middlesex County. The Pumpkin Glow took place in the north plaza at Kendall, near our…