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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…
Arrowstreet Bake-Off!
We held Arrowstreet’s first bake-off this week, and the results were delicious! We are a competitive group, and there were thirteen entries in the “no-rules” contest, from truffles, madeleines, and macarons, to ice cream, cakes, and tarts. The whole office was eager to try everything and we gathered in the kitchen after lunch for the tasting. The line stretched down the…
Building Minority Report
Last Friday evening one of our new team members, Stephen Zuber, spoke at an Arrowstreet Design Forum about some work he had done with interactive multimedia environments. Right out of the Tom Cruise film “Minority Report,” Stephen’s prior project for a university in Texas involved creating a large display wall which was visible to any viewer in the space, was able…
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…
Frightful Scenes from the Studio
As usual, we’re having too much fun in the studio – listening to Thriller on Sonos, enjoying an unfortunate amount of candy, and taking quick breaks to chat about Halloween plans and check out costumes. The good news, according to Inc. magazine today, is that this also makes us more productive. We’ll take it…
The Great Pumpkin Glow 2015
On Wednesday evening several members of the Arrowstreet team braved the rain and headed over to Kendall Square for the 2015 Great Pumpkin Glow. The annual corporate challenge is sponsored in part by our client, BioMed Realty, and benefits the Boys and Girls Clubs of Middlesex County. The Pumpkin Glow took place in the north plaza at Kendall, near our…
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…
Conversation Series, Part II: Graphic Design
Last week, we had Part 2 of our Conversation Series on “Project Delivery & Design Process,” which featured our graphic design studio’s work at the Boston Public Library. Our in-house graphics team works on a variety of environmental graphic design projects and comprehensive wayfinding programs. In addition to working on projects with the architecture team, we work independently on outside projects,…
Fenway High Opening
This week, the Arrowstreet schools team attended a celebratory Open House of the Fenway High School, where we completed renovations for the start of the school year. The Open House was a chance for faculty and staff, administrators, student ambassadors, parents, and neighbors to celebrate the potential of the space and speak about the future of school buildings and students education….
Arrowstreet “Super” Bowl
This year for our annual bowling tournament Arrowstreet hosted our own version of a “Super” Bowl at Kings Boston. Instead of throwing touchdowns and interceptions our caped crusaders rolled strikes and gutter balls. The competition was fierce and the scores were so close but in the end the super team of Katie Ferrier, Brian Hilliard, Jonathan Garland, and Claes Andreasen…