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We are pleased to announce that Somerville High School has been recognized as one of the top educational planning projects of 2024 at this year's A4LE-Association for Learning Environments' LearningSCAPES conference!    🎞️ Explore the comprehensive project and hear from the many people who helped make this vision possible in our James D. MacConnell award submission video: https://lnkd.in/dvBba8Wi    The jury, comprised of A4LE members from the United States and Australia, commended the Somerville High School project for its response to technically complex site conditions while applauding its celebration of student diversity, educational visioning, and CTE connections. A big congratulations to award winner, NAC Architecture and finalist, Mahlum Architects on their impressive projects and entries! ✏️ Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dRK4BuM8 #LearningSCAPES #EducationalPlanning #SomervilleMa #HighSchoolDesign #MacConnellAward

Ben Davenny of Acentech contributes the latest guest post to Ambulatory Healthcare Design Lab. It addresses opportunities for creating acoustical privacy in exam rooms when the surrounding walls do not extend to the deck above. #ambulatorysurgery #acoustics #hipaacompliance #patientexperience

🎉 Join us on December 5 for an exciting Town Hall event on how developers, government, and communities can come together to weave the arts into development projects! Discover how these partnerships create vibrant spaces, strengthen cultural identity, and add lasting value to our neighborhoods. 🌆🎨 This stimulating conversation will be led by Kara Elliott-Ortega & Michael J. Bobbitt 🏳️🌈🖤, and moderated by A. Scott Butler, AIA. 🙌 This is also an interactive event, so bring your ideas & experiences to share! 🍕🥤Plus, enjoy pizza and beverages during the networking portion! Let’s shape the future of our community together! #TownHallEvent #arts #CommunityGrowth 👍 Free and open to everyone.  Registration link: https://lnkd.in/e4JsAUp5 Acentech Perkins&Will @MassCulturalCouncil @CityofBoston

First day at ArchEX in Richmond Virginia. looking forward to meeting old friends and new.

For more than a century, New Canaan’s public library has been a centerpiece of the bucolic—and affluent—western Connecticut town. Originally built in 1913, the library building was bordered by downtown’s Main and Cherry Streets and saw three major expansions, the last of which was in 1979. Called to respond to the changing needs of New Canaan and the modern media landscape, in which some physical books can be replaced by digital assets and make way for other forms of programming, the library undertook a major fundraising campaign to construct an entirely new building on the same site.⁠ “What we were hoping for was a community hub, a place for gathering and social interaction, and stretching people’s definitions of what libraries are,” says Ellen Crovatto, CEO of New Canaan Library. She adds that libraries have moved away from being places where people are shushed for talking, to spaces that are “active and loud and communal.”⁠ When the library approached Connecticut-based Centerbrook Architects and Planners to design its new building more than a decade ago, principal-in-charge Jim Childress came to the project having worked on several libraries. The New Canaan project further revealed his lifelong affection for these institutions—Crovatto describes Childress as a “professional library tourist.” (He is also an avid volunteer at his local branch in the town of Essex.) “That sensibility permeates the thoughtfulness and intent behind every decision that was made here in the design,” says Crovatto. “He has a world view, an interest in what is happening in Scandinavia, Amsterdam, Japan, and South America.” ⁠ Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gWWFXRRD Words by Jennifer Krichels Photos Jeff Goldberg/Esto

On October 2, we attended the grand opening for 40 Thorndike in Cambridge, MA! What a wonderful day celebrating this amazing project and the team that transformed the former Edward J Sullivan Courthouse and Jail into a 20-story mixed-use office, retail, and residential building. 40 Thorndike consists of 422,000-square feet of Class-A office space on the upper floors as well as 48 residential apartments at levels 2 and 3. The ground floor includes retail, restaurant, childcare and meeting spaces. #ElkusManfrediProject w/Leggat McCall Properties, Granite Properties, CBRE Investment Management, John Moriarty & Associates, WSP McNamara • Salvia, Structural Engineers. #grandopening #mixeduse #adaptivereuse To read more about this project refer here: https://bit.ly/3YsdDfH. Photos courtesy of Leggat McCall.