Insight
Edward Mazria at the BSA
Monday night, I attended a talk by Edward Mazria hosted by the Boston Society of Architects. Mazria is the founder of Architecture 2030, an organization which has created a path to reduce carbon emissions so that we do not reach the point of no return on climate change. Architecture 2030 promotes solutions to climate change through the design of the…
The Not-So-Financial District
Arrowstreet’s office, and our mixed-use project, Congress Square, lie at the center of a big change that has been happening in Boston’s Financial District. Financial institutions, insurance companies, and law firms have been moving across the bridge into the Seaport, and start-ups and creative firms, like Arrowstreet, are moving into their old buildings. It all began when the Boston Convention…
Collaboration Brings Ideas to Life
The following is Part III in a series on the Logan Airport Central Parking Expansion. Find Part I and Part II here. In the design and construction of the facade at the Logan Garage, our partnership with Extech allowed us to develop and fabricate a system that would have been difficult (if not impossible) without their collaboration. Throughout the design…
MSBA Roundtable
We recently were invited to speak and present at a MSBA Designer Roundtable titled “The Educational Importance of Adjacencies for K-12: Beyond the Space Summary,” where we shared our design and experiences from our Kipp Academy Lynn and Conservatory Lab Charter School projects. We appreciated the joint collaboration with SMMA and the MSBA, and had a great forum for the…
Research Leads to Design
This is part II in a series on the design of the Logan Airport Central Parking Expansion. Please find part I here. Once the design team and Massport came to a consensus on the idea of the artful screen on the expansion of the Central Garage, it was time for the team to start thinking about how to make it…
Black in Design Conference
Earlier this month, I had the privilege of attending Harvard GSD’s first ever Black In Design Conference, hosted by GSD’s African American Student Union (AASU). The two-day symposium involved local and national speakers covering the roles of both professor and practitioner in all facets of the design and digital media industries. The primary focus was on the impact of equitable…
Interview Series: Joel Dixon
As a part of an ongoing series, the following is an interview to dig a little bit deeper and learn what makes our team tick, what fascinates us about the design industry, and what is most important to us right now. Joel is a world traveler with an eye for high design. He has visited over 35 countries and lived…
Governor Baker on the Steps of Brooke Charter
Last Thursday, Governor Baker spoke at the Brooke Charter School, proposing legislation that would allow more charter schools to open statewide. Arrowstreet designed the new location for the Brooke school and it opened last year; they were able to move to the new Mattapan location to accommodate their growing and academically rigorous program to accommodate students in grades K-8. You…
Emerging Professionals in Sustainability
We’re proud of Jordan Zimmermann, whose efforts in the field of sustainability led to her selection as a runner up for the 2015 Kate Goldstein award in Sustainability through NESEA. The award honors an emerging professional in memory of Kate Goldstein, a PhD student at the MIT Building Technology department and a NESEA board member, in tribute to her legacy of leadership,…
Back to School with BPU, Part IV
This is the conclusion of a series of posts on the September 2015 presentation of Boston Properties University at the Broad Institute at MIT. Click here for Part I, Part II, and Part III in the series! Part IV: Waterkeepers After Arrowstreet’s involvement in the Boston ULI design charrette “Living with Water: The Urban Implications,” which was co-chaired by our…