Design
Rock Spring Centre in the Press
Arrowstreet project Rock Spring Centre was featured on a DC Real Estate forum recently, including some of the newer project imagery…
Georges Island Tour
I took some photos of beautiful Fort Warren this weekend while visiting Georges Island in the Boston Harbor. The imposing structure is built almost entirely of granite and brick…
Rock Spring Centre
Arrowstreet is currently working on Rock Spring Centre, a large mixed-use project in Montgomery County, Maryland. The project received Planning Board site plan approval earlier this year, an important milestone that entitles the development to proceed to final certification prior to submission of documents for construction permitting…
Medford Square Parking Facility
Arrowstreet’s design for a new parking structure in historic Medford Square was released to the public recently. The new building will replace a facility that collapsed a few years ago…
A New Home for Congregation Shir Chadash
Arrowstreet is designing a permanent location for Shir Chadash’s growing reform Judaic congregation. The planned 14,000-square-foot building reflects the congregation’s strongly held beliefs in nature, sustainability, and social-justice, and is designed to meet the changing demands of the congregation.
New Graphics at the Seaport World Trade Center
Over the past year, Bob Lowe and I have been working with Pembroke Real Estate on a new environmental graphics program for the Seaport World Trade Center. In addition to other changes happening around Seaport Place, Pembroke Real Estate wanted to breathe some new life into the 98 year old building. Along with new banners, awnings and tenant signage, the heart of the program will include nods to the pier’s rich history…
Re-Imagining Urban Retail
For about six years now, we’ve been working with real estate brokers and building owners as an integral member of their successful leasing and sales campaigns. Most often, our clients want to show prospective tenants how their brand could be envisioned within the space they are leasing. The concepts and photo-illustrations we create explore the potential in retail locations and help everyone involved see how dynamic a space can really be.
It is a process that we fell into when our friends at Cushman & Wakefield in New York asked us for retail advice. The photo-illustrations combine our knowledge and experience in architecture, retail, illustration and graphic design and are just fun to produce…
Designing with BIM
BIM is clearly the production tool of the future for the architectural profession. But when is the best time to integrate BIM software into the conceptual design of a project? At Arrowstreet, it is becoming more and more clear the answer is “the sooner the better”. Arrowstreet architectural staff members such as Jason King, David Burn, Matt Rice, and others continue to demonstrate the advantages BIM provides with regards to being able to explore multiple design options quickly and produce images that are easy for clients, consultants, contractors, prospective tenants, and public officials to understand. This allows for a very fluid process, expediting design decisions and budget and cost analysis, as well as assisting in the leasing and marketing aspects of several projects…
Sea Glass Mural in the Globe
It was great to see our work profiled in yesterday’s Boston Globe. We completed this mural for our client, Pembroke Real Estate, a few years ago to invigorate their headquarters’ storefront windows along Atlantic Avenue. It’s nice to be reminded how it enlivens this stretch along the Greenway, even on the bleakest of days.
Icelandic Institute of Natural History
Arrowstreet, as part of an international design team, created a sustainable master plan for a mixed-use community on a spectacular hilltop site in Garðabær outside of Reykjavik. The Icelandic Institute of Natural History was the first office/lab building to be built in the project, and is already getting noticed around the world for both its beautiful design and its sustainability features. Arrowstreet served as design consultants to the architect-of-record, Icelandic firm ARKIS, and led the sustainability effort…