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Concrete Visions on Display at the BAC
Check out a new exhibit at the Boston Architectural College: Concrete Visions. Held in their McCormick Gallery, the exhibit showcases our winning entry in a design competition for the BAC, as well as other Boston projects, such as City Hall. The exhibit is free and open through April 22, 2016. The exhibition frames the Boston Architecture Center’s importance as an…
Food and Real Estate
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the ULI Food and Real Estate Forum in New Orleans. It rained the whole time, making it hard to sneak out of the hotel for late night beignets, but the dialogue made up for the inclement weather. The group discussions covered a wide range of topics about the role of food in our…
In Memoriam: Stanford Anderson
Now that I’ve reached the time in my life where I recognize most of the people shown during the In Memoriam segment of the Academy Awards, weeks like the last become more poignant. In the same week that we found out that one of Arrowstreet’s founders, Jack Meyer, had passed away, a few of us attended the memorial service for…
Graffiti & Steel: Embracing Culture
For most of us, graffitied walls and industrial sites are usually things to be repainted and remade. But in our hearts we all know that the most interesting places have a little bit of grit to them; it’s what gives them life, character, and makes them memorable. In the end, the things people leave behind them are what make communities…
Modernizing Historic Buildings
There are a lot of interesting, historic buildings in Boston, and increasingly less space available for new development. As a result, developments like Congress Square are enhancing the best parts of historic buildings, and thoughtfully adding to them to create needed additional space, combining the best of both worlds. An added benefit of building up, opposed to demolishing, is that…
Lost and Found Blueprints
Many times when we are doing renovation projects, we are left to our own resources to figure out how the building was designed and built. We were recently across the street from our studio, walking through the basement of one of the buildings at the old Fidelity block, (which will become the new Congress Square project), when we came across some drawings of the buildings…
The Not-So-Financial District
Arrowstreet’s office, and our mixed-use project, Congress Square, lie at the center of a big change that has been happening in Boston’s Financial District. Financial institutions, insurance companies, and law firms have been moving across the bridge into the Seaport, and start-ups and creative firms, like Arrowstreet, are moving into their old buildings. It all began when the Boston Convention…
Back to School with BPU, Part IV
This is the conclusion of a series of posts on the September 2015 presentation of Boston Properties University at the Broad Institute at MIT. Click here for Part I, Part II, and Part III in the series! Part IV: Waterkeepers After Arrowstreet’s involvement in the Boston ULI design charrette “Living with Water: The Urban Implications,” which was co-chaired by our…
Back to School with BPU, Part III
This post is part of a series on the September 2015 presentation of Boston Properties University at the Broad Institute at MIT. Click here for Part I and Part II in the series, and stay tuned for more! Part III: Demographics Dr. Joseph Coughlin, Director of MIT’s AgeLab told us that “the future is gray, it is delayed, it is…
Back to School with BPU, Part II
This post is part of a series on the September 2015 presentation of Boston Properties University at the Broad Institute at MIT. Click here to see Part I in the series, and stay tuned for more! Part II: Space Killers Robotic Furniture might seem like something you’d only see in a sci-fi movie, but for Hasier Larrea, it is very…