Fenway High School
Arrowstreet renovated the historic Mission Hill High School for Fenway High, an award-winning Massachusetts Pilot school in the Boston Public School system. The design preserved the graceful historic details of the original building while enhancing the facility with innovative programming ideas. The existing formal entrance lobby was extended through the building to create an active ‘mainstreet’ leading to the new…
Brooke Mattapan
Brooke Charter School, a network on the leading edge of successful charter schools in Massachusetts, commissioned Arrowstreet to create a new home for their second school. Planned to support 475 students in grades K-8, Brooke Mattapan includes the renovation of an existing four-story historic building and gymnasium. The modernization of this 57,000-square-foot building included substantial interior rehabilitation, restoration of the…
UMASS Lowell Residence Hall Inn and Conference Center
The University of Massachusetts Lowell commissioned Arrowstreet to renovate a former Doubletree Hotel into a multi-use facility containing both a student residence hall and a separate Inn and Conference Center. The top seven floors of this nine-story building were reserved for student use during the school year, providing housing for four hundred students. The bottom two stories now function as…
KIPP Academy Lynn
Arrowstreet’s design for the first ground-up charter school in Massachusetts captures the focused approach to academic success that is the hallmark of the KIPP program. The design prioritizes learning space: the extremely efficient layout supports 850 students in 68,000 square feet. The compact middle and high school classroom wings bookend the central common spaces of the cafeteria, gymnasium, library, lobby,…
City on a Hill
City on a Hill, a public charter high school renowned for its inventive, academically rigorous curriculum, commissioned Arrowstreet to create a new academic facility from an obsolete school building. School administrators wanted the new construction, including the new entrance, to reflect their forward-thinking attitude towards education. The program includes the addition of a 7,200 square-foot auditorium, which will double as…
Artists For Humanity EpiCenter
The non-profit Artists for Humanity’s mission is “to bridge economic, racial, and social divisions by providing at-risk youth with the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in the arts.” The organization is built on the philosophy that art is a powerful force for social change and that creative entrepreneurship is a life-changing and productive opportunity for young people. The 22,500…
Chestnut Hill Square Medical Office Building
As a part of the Chestnut Hill Square mixed-use development, Arrowstreet designed a state-of-the-art medical office building currently occupied by Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare. The approximately 200,000-square-foot office building houses walk-in urgent care, primary care, and outpatient services, such as sports medicine and rehabilitation, obstetrics, and an on-site lab. This facility provides patients and staff access to world-class medical services…
450 Kendall Street
Close to the heart of Cambridge’s Kendall Square, 450 Kendall is steps from many life science and high-tech companies and MIT. Completed in 2015 for BioMed Realty Trust, the building is a nexus for cutting-edge life science research and its financial backers. Within minutes of MIT’s scientific and business leaders, the location serves as both a place to collaborate and…
Rechler Office Building
Sustainable, future-forward design Arrowstreet designed a sleek new corporate headquarters for this leading real estate developer. The project renovated a building rich with history – one of the first warehouses built by the company – into a contemporary glass and steel structure that reflects both the company’s industrial history as well as its high-tech, design-oriented future. An iconic curved roof…
Two Financial Center
This 12-story office tower contains more than 200,000 square feet of Class-A office space. The building is located in downtown Boston, next to One Financial Center and South Station, the hub of transportation for the city. Arrowstreet’s design complements the modern high rises of the Financial District and the turn-of-the-century Leather District lofts. In 2021, Arrowstreet completed a modernization of…