The Challenge of Designing Lighting for Medical Offices

Lighting is a vital aspect of any building project. For our purposes, the term “lighting” means the use…

Restaurant Design: Space Flow

What makes a restaurant layout efficient? And why is this important? At the most basic level, an efficient…

Restaurant Design: Seating

The design of seating arrangements for a restaurant should reflect the type of cuisine and service that is…

Restaurant Design: Lighting

Lighting is one of the key elements in giving a restaurant its character and atmosphere. Beyond the basic…

Restaurant Design: The Details

What brings the design of a restaurant to a cohesive whole is the sum of its details: –…

Adaptive Reuse: 27 Stack Street

A look at the interior of an historic silk manufacturing building conversion to affordable apartments. AN EXISTING BUILDING…

Adaptive Reuse: Saint Mary Place

A look at the interior of an historic school building conversion to affordable apartments. AN EXISTING BUILDING This elementary…

The World of GIFs in Design

Just as GIFs have taken over social media, we have begun using GIFs in our architectural design presentations….

Project Share: Adaptive Reuse of Historic Mill Building

This former silk manufacturing building in Middletown, CT is being converted into affordable apartments. The former loading dock…

Musings On Good Classroom Design

In our time as architects (and parents), we’ve had experience with classrooms across the spectrum- from early childhood…

From our Portfolio: Friends Center for Children

  FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION The Friends Center for Children is a sustainably designed early childhood facility…

Friends Center for Children – Presentation Boards

These are our presentation boards, prepared for the Friends Center for Children. The site is shared with the…