210 Broadway
Arrowstreet helped reposition this four-story building for office and light lab uses. Renovations to public spaces and amenities included the exterior façade and lobby area. An updated streetscape added bike racks and a glass-paneled courtyard to the structure, part of a campus of three buildings recently acquired by BioMed Realty Trust. These renovations have imparted a new identity and will…
MIT Sustainable Roof Study
Reducing energy usage across campus The study and planning tool allows MIT to develop campus plan strategies and prioritize improvements that lower greenhouse gas emissions, maximize energy savings, improve storm water management, increase biodiversity, reduce the urban heat island effect, increase energy production, and provide more educational/research opportunities. Consistent with MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change that includes several…
King Open/Cambridge Street Upper Schools & Community Complex
The King Open/Cambridge Street Upper School & Community Complex establishes a new standard for education design and high-performing buildings by creating a 21st-century learning lab. This new building type combines two separate schools (King Open Elementary and Cambridge Street Upper School) with a mix of diverse community programs, creating a community resource that supports student learning with a vast range…
Brooklyn Boulders Queensbridge
Brooklyn Boulders Queensbridge (BKB) opened their fourth location in Long Island City, New York, joining their existing locations in Brooklyn, NY; Chicago, IL; and Somerville, MA. BKB Queensbridge has traditional climbing and bouldering walls, personal training facilities, and active collaborative workspace, but takes the use one step further as the first climbing gym to be located in a luxury, high-rise…
Immersive Renderings
With new technology, Arrowstreet is able to present client’s with a hands-on experience that enables them or a potential tenant to “be” in the space. With VR goggles the viewer has a fully integrated screen on their face that allows to them to explore the space in 3D. This view helps the client to feel the quality of the space,…
Blackstone Valley Prep High School
Arrowstreet’s design for Blackstone Valley Prep High School incorporates a contextual building and site development consistent with the scale, look, and feel of the town of Cumberland, Rhode Island and the neighborhood. With its rich industrial history the town experienced a dramatic population increase with the growth of wood-framed residential and small commercial buildings. The school needed to reflect a…
MATCH High School Boston
Arrowstreet’s Architecture and Interior Design teams worked together to create an inviting collaborative space for the MATCH Charter High School in Boston. The third floor had previously been dormitories for their in-house tutoring program. Faced with limited space in their current two levels, MATCH found alternate housing options for their tutors, and approached Arrowstreet to assist with the expansion of…
Model Making
Arrowstreet uses model building and 3D printing technology in our design practice. The creation of models allows us to take what has previously been a flat image on a screen, and turn it into an actual physical object that can be picked up and touched. These models serve multiple purposes and are utilized for proposals, interviews, community meetings, and zoning…
White Elephant Village Inn
The most recent addition to the White Elephant series of hospitality offerings, the Village Inn adds 6 luxury guest rooms and 14 suites to the Nantucket resort destination. Originally designed to be vacation condominiums, the space was reimagined to suit the shifting Nantucket hospitality market. The Inn offers a new lobby, guest check-in, and other amenities in a more urbane,…
Back Bay Station Revitalization
Arrowstreet has been working with client Boston Properties, the MBTA, and an innovative consultant team on a multi-phase renovation of Back Bay Station. The renovation will revitalize Back Bay as a major civic train station with a new generation of active retail uses. The main phase will include a complete renovation of the concourse level of the station. The architectural…