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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…
Arrowstreet Designer Launches The Curatist
One of our designers, Timea Szabo, and her husband, coder Zsolt Nemeth, have collaborated to create The Curatist: a new platform for browsing architectural content from around the web in one place. Currently available online and as a Google Chrome extension, the Curatist aggregates and filters architectural news and presents a variety of sources in a single place. The site is…
FLOAT Boston
We’ve worked on some really interesting experiential retail, but FLOAT Boston may be one of our most unique. Arrowstreet served as the architect for a fit out at 515 Medford Street for this flotation therapy company. We designed a reception area and a private room for each float tank (ensuring that there was sufficient structural support) and developed an interior…
Commuting by Ride Sharing
I commute from Coolidge Corner in Brookline to Arrowstreet’s Post Office Square office on the Green Line. A year ago, I saw small groups of people waiting in the morning for what looked like a private driver. One day I decided to ask what were they waiting for and was told about Bridj. The company operates small, luxurious shuttle buses…
Target’s Big Idea for Going Small
We are thrilled to announce that we have been working with Target Corporation to assist with their roll-out of small-format urban stores in the Northeast region. In recent months, Target has opened a handful of these new stores in Minneapolis and San Francisco, and they’re now focusing on the northeast states. What distinguishes these stores from their suburban locations is…
Studying Swiss Graphic Design
[Ben Keel is a graphic design student at the University of Cincinnati (UC). Last summer, he won a poster design contest through Northeastern University and Swissnex while interning at Arrowstreet, and was sent to visit four design schools in Switzerland as part of his prize. He has just returned to Arrowstreet for his second co-op internship.] This fall I was…
Arrowstreet at the NESEA BE 16 Conference
Join me to discuss net zero buildings, along with Samuel Lasky (William Rawn Associates), Michael Black (City of Cambridge), and Shannon Kaplan (In Posse), at the NESEA BE 16 Conference at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston on March 9th from 1:30-3:30pm. The panel will be discussing user engagement in the design process in case study projects, including the proposed net-zero…
Constructing the Universe
It’s Oscar season and these days we’re all talking about movies. To get into the spirit, we watched a movie during lunch this week. Not just any movie; a movie made by my cousin, Eric Anderson, who is a filmmaker in Los Angeles. His animated short, The Looking Planet is winning awards in film festivals around the world. I was…
Tesla Drives to the Future
Last year, Elon Musk of Tesla announced that they were expanding beyond cars, and launched Tesla Energy. He said, “Our goal is to fundamentally change the way the world uses energy.” While it seems hard to imagine how a small car company can change the way the entire world uses energy, I recently attended a presentation by Tesla’s Chris Walti,…