Inspiration
Georges Island Tour
I took some photos of beautiful Fort Warren this weekend while visiting Georges Island in the Boston Harbor. The imposing structure is built almost entirely of granite and brick…
Medford Square Parking Facility
Arrowstreet’s design for a new parking structure in historic Medford Square was released to the public recently. The new building will replace a facility that collapsed a few years ago…
Universal Flex Labs: A New Approach to Lab Space
On June 1st, I will be speaking during the sold out NAIOP tour of 325 Vassar Street on the topic of Universal Flex Labs: A New Approach to Lab Space. A key part of designing 325 Vassar Street was working with Biomed Realty Trust to create the Universal Flex Lab template: a modular design of lab, office, and support space that could be quickly and easily customized to suit any technical discipline…
Festival of Art, Science, and Technology (FAST)
MIT is celebrating its 150th anniversary with 150 consecutive days of activities in technology innovation. During the FAST festival, designers at MIT used light, free-form plastic, magnets, string, and many other materials to alter both indoor and outdoor spaces…
FPD Training Conference
I’m speaking to the Federal Planning Division tomorrow morning at their annual Training Conference on the topic of “Strategic Planning to Maximize Community Food, Beverage and Entertainment Options.” I’ve been working with my co-presenter, Geoff Baekey of CHM, on a consulting project to assist the Air Force with transforming their food and beverage operations, and tomorrow morning we’ll be sharing our study process and showing some illustrative examples…
Waffles at Women’s Lunch Place
On a cold and sunny Saturday morning a group of ASTers met up at The Women’s Lunch Place (WLP) on Newbury Street. Arrowstreet is currently assisting WLP with a renovation and modernization of their space so we thought it would be a great time to get some people down to the shelter to volunteer and to see how the space functions. The group set up a waffle station (complete with toppings), then began cooking and serving waffles to the hungry guests…
Arrowstreet Celebrates 50 Years
This year, Arrowstreet celebrates our 50th anniversary as a firm. Over the last half century, 1,000+ employees have walked through our doors to become a part of the Arrowstreet family. Throughout these years and all of these employees, certain aspirations have remained central to the place— our sense of community within the firm and the sense of community in the places we shape. Be they the places we live, the places we work or shop, the places we learn, or where we go for entertainment, we have sought to advance that which gives life, enthusiasm, and opportunity to all whose lives we touch…
Net-Zero Energy Office
A recent article in the New York Times features the National Renewable Energy Lab’s new, 220,000 sf, hyper-efficient office building in Golden, Colorado. This amazing building is, to date, the largest net-zero energy office building in the nation. There are an increasing number of examples of net-zero commercial buildings in the world, but none of this scale.
City on a Hill Charter School on NECN
City on a Hill Charter School was just recently on NECN; a great story about the successes of the and its students. Charter Schools are making a difference. Arrowstreet helped with the renovation completed in 2007 and the addition was completed in 2008…
Career Day: Recruiting Tomorrow’s Designers
On Feb 4th we were invited to speak to some students at the St. Clement School in Medford for their career day. Lauren Haggerty and I had the opportunity to speak to 10 students about the Architectural and Graphic Design profession. Although teenagers are not particularly chatty at 8:30 in the morning, they did have some good questions and interest in the drawings and illustrations we brought along…