Preservation
Join Arrowstreet for the 32nd Annual Boston Preservation Alliance Achievement Awards
The evening will be hosted by award-winning Journalist Katie Couric and include stunning visual narratives of this year’s outstanding projects that reveal there is always more to the story. Arrowstreet’s Jim Batchelor will be honored with a President’s Award as well as the Dillaway-Thomas House. Bestowed annually since 1988, the Preservation Achievement Awards honor outstanding achievements in historic preservation and…
Boston Volvo Village Awarded 2020 Preservation Massachusetts Award
We are proud to announce that Boston Volvo Village has been awarded Preservation Massachusett’s Paul & Niki Tsongas Award, which is awarded to projects that have displayed the highest level of commitment to historic preservation in the Commonwealth! Boston Volvo Village is an adaptive reuse project that challenges the future typology of car dealerships, transforming a historic 1926 International Harvester…
Boston Preservation Alliance presents the 2020 President’s Award for Excellence to Jim Batchelor and Arrowstreet Inc.
The Boston Preservation Alliance is pleased to present our 2020 President’s Award for Excellence to Jim Batchelor FAIA and Arrowstreet Inc. As a Boston-based architecture and design firm, Arrowstreet has been energizing and revitalizing forgotten neighborhoods in and around Boston since the early 1960s. “Conceiving innovative and engaging ways to breathe new life into old buildings and to insert bold,…
Hot Property: 139 Main St. in Cambridge
The following is an excerpt from Banker & Tradesman What: 139 Main St. Where: Cambridge Owner: MITIMco Built: May 2017-May 2019 Boston-based architectural and design firm Arrowstreet was recently named recipient of the Cambridge Historical Commission Preservation award for its work on 139 Main St. One of the last remaining pieces of Cambridge’s first-generation commercial construction, 139 Main was built…
How Design Can Complement Historic Environments
When it comes to design, one rarely thinks of words like “compliment, appropriate, memory or story-telling” as apt expressions to describe our work. That is, unless you plan on intervening in the historic fabric of some of the oldest and most memorable communities of New England. In his book, The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton writes, “In a more emcompassing…
For Better or Worse, Provincetown is Ahead of the Curve
Provincetown is one of my favorite places – anywhere. I’ve been going there for almost 30 years; I have watched it change, as places do, and I love it now as much as I did then. But like all communities, it has its concerns and issues. So I was honored to be part of an Urban Land Institute Technical Assistance…
What is the Future of Downtown?
One of the best things about great cities is that they adapt and change. Rail yards become new neighborhoods, and industrial districts become lofts, offices, and shopping centers. The ability of the urban fabric to evolve with the rapidly changing ways we live and work is part of the reason people and businesses are returning to the city core. It…
Exploring Possibilities at Back Bay Station
As part of our work exploring options for renovating Back Bay Station for Boston Properties, we went on site with a lift operator, structural engineer, and preservation expert to determine how to best restore the wood arches. Originally built and opened in the 1980s, Back Bay Station will be undergoing a transformation in the coming years to modernize it and…