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Reflecting on KIPP Academy Boston
Ahead of the official ribbon cutting ceremony for the KIPP Academy Boston Charter School in Mattapan, we’ve been looking back on the journey from concept through construction, culminating with our office tour, and the first day of school. Here is what some of the team had to say about working on the project. Larry Spang: Bringing buildings to life through strategic…
Celebrating KIPP Academy Boston
For the past 18-months we’ve been posting updates about KIPP Academy Boston in Mattapan. A few weeks ago, the school welcomed students for the first time, and later this week a ribbon cutting ceremony will be held to commemorate the opening of the new school. The K-8 school is intended to be an asset to the community as well as a…
Construction Update: KIPP Boston
KIPP Boston is on schedule to open for the new school year in the late summer of 2016. At the end of the year we were working on plumbing and electrical, finalizing masonry, installing windows, and preparing for the installation of the school gym. In the past few weeks, things have been moving quickly as the pre-engineered gym structure has been…
KIPP Construction on Track
KIPP Boston is on schedule to open for the new school year in the late summer of 2016. Thanks to the warm weather, we were able to move quickly along with the construction of the main building. We currently are working on plumbing and electrical on the interior, and on the exterior we are finalizing masonry and installing windows throughout….
A Refreshing Purpose for the Upper Devotion School
To accommodate their rising student population, the Town of Brookline decided to make use of a former school building to serve as a temporary location while they renovate existing schools. Arrowstreet served as architect for the project, which fell under the Town Building Department, and focused primarily on upgrading the building and its systems. We worked closely with the town…
NEWIRE Tour of Chestnut Hill Square
Here are some photos of the recent NEWiRE tour of the Chestnut Hill Square project we’re working on for New England Development. As a member of the project team for a couple of years now, I enjoyed hearing from NED’s Doug Karp about the project, and hearing feedback from attendees about the project’s design. And we even received a reward for attending – the retailers contributed to amazing gift bags, Wegmans provided beverages and light appetizers, and the evening was capped off at neighboring Capital Grille. Some of the stores are open now, with more opening this month and Wegman’s scheduled to open next spring (2014).
Mount Equinox
I took a vacation last year to a site with no easy way in or out: Mount Equinox‘s Skyline Drive holds the record for the longest paved private road at 5.2 miles. While it’s not open year round, the drive is a pretty amazing vantage for views of most of New England and the Adirondacks. It’s a pretty crazy drive, full…
Windmills
I recently came back from upstate NY and got a chance to revisit my extended family’s windmills. My sister-in-law’s family scaled back their farming over ten years ago and now rent out part of their land for seven windmills. Most of the land around the windmills is still in rotation, so it’s a relatively fluid and symbiotic relationship…
Chestnut Hill Site Visit
This past week I was able to join an Arrowstreet group to get a tour of the Chestnut Hill site from Jason King and Mike Manship. The project has had a long history in the office but I’ve only recently joined the team, working on the 350+ space pre-cast garage scheduled to open in the fall of 2013. In addition to…
Using GIS for Planning Projects
I’ve recently been working on an Air Force Services planning project. Part of the project involves some really cool design proposals for future implementation; the initial steps included assessing the existing programs and assigning them to the existing building layout, for which we used a powerful piece of GIS software called ArcMap…