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One trait that I see over and over again in designers is that they’re always looking for ways to improve things. Whether it’s Le Corbusier with the density of Paris, or Michael Graves with a teapot, designers look at the world differently than the rest of us. That belief holds true for Brookline-based architects Jin [...]
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As the saying goes, a company is only as good as its employees. CBT Architects underscored that philosophy when they named new Senior Associates and Associates. Recognizing the leadership value these individuals bring to the firm, CBT Architects, Boston’s second largest architecture and urban design company, has named 5 new Senior Associates, and 12 new Associates. [...]
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Earlier this week, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) concluded their Greenway District Planning Study, setting building height limits along the 1-1/2 mile long Rose Kennedy Greenway. To ensure that no one building or collection of buildings dominates the Greenway in terms of its scale, orientation, or architecture, the team examined potential massing studies from the [...]
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The Boston Globe recently reported on a proposal by local developer Samuels and Associates for two new buildings in the Fenway. A building at 132 Brookline Ave. would house 170 high-end apartments and include retail space on the first floor. A street over, on the corner of Boylston and Van Ness streets, another building would [...]
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After an open call for entries and a “a review process conducted by a jury of prominent designers”, winners for this year’s Design Biennial Boston have been announced: Dan Hisel of Dan Hisel Architect, Somerville Carla Ceruzzi and Ryan Murphy of Ceruzzi & Murphy Projects, Somerville William O’Brien, Jr. of William O’Brien Jr. LLC, Cambridge [...]
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It took way too long, finding the processing limits of my MacBook, and solving an upload issue with my video hosting provider, but we have it: video of Steve Glenn’s recent talk at DWR. On a drizzly Thursday night — nothing compared to what we’ve had for the last few days, mind you — over [...]
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Stephen is a Boston-based architect, teacher, and design show host. I recently had the chance to interview Stephen about his work — both in architecture and on television — and his life. Trained at Harvard, Stephen cut his teeth at Richard Meier and Partners in New York, and Machado Silvetti in Boston. He was Design [...]
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In last Sunday’s Boston Globe, Dushko Petrovich explored how Boston could find itself as the home of a new art revolution. In his essay, Dushko cites all that Boston has going for it: “several great museums, a superabundance of universities, many galleries, a highly educated and increasingly sophisticated audience, and a density that allows for [...]
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It seems only natural, given the turbulent economy of the last couple years, that you’d start to see mergers and acquisitions in the architecture and design industries. This week showed that come true, when Seattle-based NBBJ and Cambridge-based Chan Krieger Sieniewicz announced they are merging practices. NBBJ, a global architecture and design firm, and Chan [...]
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We’ve learned about a lot of great events focusing on green design lately around the city recently, and just learned about one more. CBT Architects – whose office is a beacon in a sea of sports bars across from the TD Bank Garden – is hosting CBT Green Day 2010. The name is a bit of a [...]
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