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METROPOLIS Celebrates the Arch30 Boston Cohort

They city’s most promising emerging architects, affiliated with influential firms, convened for METROPOLIS’s Arch30 event held in April.
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Payette’s New EXP Building is Designed for Research and Built to Perform

How Northeastern University is fostering exploration through insightful and transparent design.
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Shepley Bulfinch Celebrates Its 150th Anniversary with Boston Exhibition

A Legacy of Design Innovation, on view through May 7, commemorates the firm’s decades long legacy of progressive practice and innovative design.
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Leers Weinzapfel Associates Renovates a Space Age Library in Boston

Built in 1961, the Roslindale branch of the Boston Public Library just received a $11.7 million renovation by the Boston-based firm.
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Creating a Gleaming New Gateway at MIT

Weiss/Manfredi's 314 Main Street works with other new buildings on the east edge of the legendary campus to create a new center of energy.
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Bower Marks a New Phase of Transit-Oriented Infill Development in Boston

Designed by The Architectural Team, the two-tower complex counts ample train connections among its sustainable features.
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In Boston, a Development’s Approach to a Changing Coastline Is to Embrace It

Among the resilient features of Clippership Wharf is a “living shoreline” of marsh and native fauna.
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Elkus Manfredi Architects’ Glass Insertions Restore and Update Emerson College’s Little Building

The Boston firm uses glazing between the iconic finger-like towers to add contemporary style as well as critical space for students.
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Outlier Lofts in Charlestown Has the Neighborhood in Its Bones

Designed by French 2D, the three floor-through lofts were built in the husk of a legendary Boston bar.
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Hacin + Associates Reinvents the Tiki Bar—in the Heart of New England

Shore Leave, a new watering hole in Boston’s South End, reimagines the kitschy mainstay through its clever approach to sequence, material, and lighting.
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At Boston’s BSA Space, a New Exhibition Explores the Latest Smart City Tech

Balancing Act: Urbanism & Emerging Technologies avoids grandiose ground-up smart city developments, instead focusing on designs that could impact life in existing cities.
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In Lynn, Massachusetts, a Public Art and Lighting Initiative Enlivens a Former Industrial City Center

The city's expansive downtown installation comprises 42 large-scale murals by renowned street artists, underpass lighting, and 11 refurbished vintage neon signs
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OPINION: When it Comes to Resiliency, Boston Can Think Bigger

Michael E. Liu, vice president and principal at Boston-based The Architectural Team, writes how the city must move beyond project-by-project responses to rising sea levels.
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As Universities Become More Urban, Campus Planning Is Evolving

At a Think Tank discussion held at SmithGroup in Boston, Metropolis's Susan S. Szenasy led a discussion on new town/gown dynamics.
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Harvard Opens Snøhetta-Designed Prototype for Super-Sustainable Retrofits

Dubbed HouseZero, the building uses data-collecting sensors, passive ventilation, low embodied energy materials, and geothermal wells, among other strategies.
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Henry N. Cobb Looks Back on 70 Years of Architecture

A founding partner of the venerable firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Cobb has built extensively, nowhere more than in his native Boston.
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Harvard GSD Taps Herzog & de Meuron and Beyer Blinder Belle to Expand Gund Hall

The two firms are designing a new space that aims to foster cross-disciplinary work among the GSD's many programs and Harvard at large.
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NatureStructure Exhibition Shows How Infrastructure and Nature Can Work Together

On view at the BSA Space in Boston, NatureStructure features a bridge that doubles as bat habitat, plans for 3D-printed reefs, a floodwater-absorbing parking lot, and more.
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IDEO’s Bold New Cambridge Office Uses Architecture to Join a Start-Up Community

Designed by Hacin + Associates, the new office enables collaboration between its teams while plugging into Boston’s burgeoning start-up and tech scene.
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How Elkus Manfredi Architects Is Uniting Five Different Companies in One Office

For two years, the firm worked with 171 employees from its client Publicis Groupe to develop a design for this 225,000-square-foot office in Boston.