Culture
Fast Company Innovation Festival
Amy Korte and David Bois will be in New York City from November 1-4 for the Fast Company Innovation Festival. The event brings extraordinary personalities together for surprising talks, hands-on workshops, unexpected performances and behind-the-scenes tours designed to inspire creativity and innovation.
Team Arrowstreet at the Thompson Island 4K Trail Run
Team Arrowstreet took to the trails as part of the Thompson Island 4K Trail Run to raise money to support the amazing work that’s happening on Thompson Island with kids from the Boston Public Schools. Each year, thousands of middle school students come to Thompson Island for free, hands-on learning and team building, not to mention life changing time spend…
Saturday Morning at Women’s Lunch Place
At the end of August, I joined a few members of our staff for Arrowstreet’s annual volunteer session at the Women’s Lunch Place, an amazing Back Bay facility designed by Arrowstreet for homeless women. It was an honor and humbling experience to volunteer in the kitchen – prepping, cooking, serving, and seeing the many faces and personalities of the women who utilize…
Volunteer Hour to Benefit Women’s Lunch Place
Yesterday at lunch we got together to prepare for an upcoming Saturday morning volunteering shift at the Women’s Lunch Place. Arrowstreet’s staff has been collecting toiletries for our ongoing basic necessities drive to benefit the Women’s Lunch Place, and we gathered to sort the items so they can be easily distributed. With everyone’s help we collected over 750 individual items, including…
Touring KIPP Academy Boston
Last week, Katie Ferrier and I led a group of Arrowstreet designers on a tour of the new KIPP Academy Boston Charter School in Mattapan. As the project nears completion, school administrators are gearing up for the start of school, and we took a sneak peek at what the new facility will provide for KIPP students and the local community. After…
Arrowstreet Walking Tour: East Boston
We traveled across Boston Harbor via water taxi last week for the first of our summer walking tours. East Boston is becoming one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city, and underutilized land on the waterfront is being made accessible to the public at a number of new developments. Our tour weaved through the neighborhood, stopping at three new mixed-use…
Arrowstreet Mini-Golf 2016
This week our friends and family joined us for Arrowstreet’s annual in-studio mini-golf tournament. Every year, our talented staff designs a nine-hole course using $15 worth of materials, plus whatever additional items they can find at home or in the office. The results are always creative, inventive, and more than a little humorous. The event is one of our favorites…
#ArrowstreetTravels
Arrowstreet’s diverse staff come from across the country, and around the world. We all have different schedules, but stories, photos, and inspiration from our travels through New England, the USA, and across the globe are shared a little more frequently in the summer months. See where we go, what we see, and what inspires us by following us on Instagram, and by checking…
ACE Mentoring’s Final Presentations
Last night I served as a panelist at the Ace Mentoring Program’s final presentations. ACE Mentoring is a non-profit, volunteer based mentor organization that pairs high school students interested in architecture, construction, and engineering with professionals in the industry. The final presentations offer an opportunity for the students to present their semester’s work to a panel of industry professionals. It…
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…