Boston City Hall renovation preserves "straightforward honesty" of brutalist building
LED lights illuminate the gridded concrete structure of Boston's brutalist city hall, which has been renovated by local firm Utile. More
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MIT Media Lab director resigns after allegedly covering up Jeffrey Epstein donations
Joichi Ito has stepped down as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab after The New Yorker magazine claimed he made efforts to hide donations from American businessman and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. More
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Supernormal reimagines the classroom for children's educational centre in Massachusetts
American firm Supernormal has created a nursery and preschool in the Boston area that features sculptural volumes wrapped in vibrant wallpaper and open play areas illuminated by speckled daylight. More
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William Rawn designs cedar-clad pavilions for Tanglewood campus in the Berkshires
US firm William Rawn Associates has created a series of buildings for a performing arts campus in western Massachusetts, where retractable glass walls allow music to spill outdoors. More
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Geodesic dome cabin in New England gets major overhaul by Jess Cooney
Large triangular windows bring daylight into this dome house in western Massachusetts, which has received an extensive makeover by local firm Jess Cooney Interiors. More
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Doug Aitken's mirrored balloon New Horizon flies over Massachusetts
American artist Doug Aitken has created a mirrored hot air balloon to travel across rural landscapes of Massachusetts this summer. More
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Five polycarbonate volumes form Harvard University's ArtLab by Barkow Leibinger
Architecture firm Barkow Leibinger has covered this experimental arts hub at Harvard University in polycarbonate panels to make it illuminate like a "lightbox at night". More
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Pelli Clarke Pelli unveils folded glass One Congress tower in Boston
Pelli Clarke Pelli has revealed plans to build an office tower in Boston with a folded glass facade that resembles a "dramatic theatrical curtain". More
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BIG wraps Massachusetts university building with "domino effect" copper walls
Bjarke Ingels' firm has completed an extension to the business school at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with gradually sloping walls that resemble falling dominos. More
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Gender Bending Fashion exhibition in Boston challenges notions about clothing
Designs by Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier and Rei Kawakubo feature in this fashion exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which aims to explore and question assumptions about gender-specific clothing. More
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WOJR envisions House of the Woodland topped with huge roof for Massachusetts forest
This set of highly realistic renderings unveil a cabin that American studio WOJR has designed for a forest clearing in Massachusetts, featuring a large pyramidal metal roof set on concrete block walls. More
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"Boston City Hall is the frog waiting to wake up as a prince"
As the brutalist Boston City Hall celebrates its 50th birthday, Aaron Betsky reflects on the building's history as a monument to social democracy, and wonders if proposed updates will bring it a happily ever after. More
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Pentagram prints stencil-style supergraphic across ICA Boston
A logo resembling "stencil letterforms" is printed on the exterior of the Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed art gallery on Boston's waterfront, as part of a major branding overhaul by graphic design studio Pentagram. More
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Snøhetta completes ultra-efficient HouseZero at Harvard University
Rooftop photovoltaics and windows that automatically open and close are among the sustainable features in a small Harvard building, which Snøhetta, Skanska and university researchers have retrofitted. More
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SCAPE contributes to Resilient Boston Harbor flood-protection project
Boston is moving ahead with plans to address rising sea levels predicted as a result of climate change, using designs by New York firm SCAPE. More
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Maryann Thompson refurbishes and extends shingled Cove House in Martha's Vineyard
Massachusetts firm Maryann Thompson Architects has enlarged a shingle-style house by opening up its ground floor, and building two additions on the grassy coastal property. More
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Tourists hotel in The Berkshires takes cues from classic American motor lodges
A magazine founder, a chef and a bassist are among the diverse team that has torn down an old motel in western Massachusetts to make way for this wood-clad inn, based on "the aesthetic of a classic American motor lodge". More
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Construction workers suffer highest death rate from opioid overdoses in Massachusetts
A new study of opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts has found that the construction industry is the worst affected, while architecture and engineering are the only occupations to have a higher death rate among women than men. More
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Herzog & de Meuron to overhaul Harvard GSD's Gund Hall
Architecture firms Herzog & de Meuron and Beyer Blinder Belle have been enlisted to renovate and expand the main building at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, in order to support "groundbreaking collaborations" between its programmes. More
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Destruction of brutalist buildings shown at Boston photography exhibition
The razing of notable brutalist buildings from the 1960s and 1970s, including work by architects Paul Rudolph and Alison and Peter Smithson, is the subject of a photography exhibition at a Boston art gallery. More
