Boston responds to climate change with elevated parks and flood barriers
Boston has launched a plan to prevent flooding in its most vulnerable waterfront neighbourhoods, becoming the latest US city to respond to the threat of rising sea levels. More
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Parking garage extension forms home for architects Ensamble
To build their own home in the Massachusetts town of Brookline, the principals of Spanish firm Ensamble Studio prefabricated individual parts of the structure in Madrid and sailed them across the Atlantic to be assembled on site. More
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Flansburgh Architects takes cues from wooden barns for dance studio in the Berkshires
American firm Flansburgh Architects has created a studio building for a performing arts campus in rural Massachusetts that is wrapped in warm-coloured wood and bands of glass. More
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Leroy Street Studio updates traditional New England architecture for harbour-side Cove House
A harbour view is framed through the gap between the two sides of this house in Massachusetts by New York firm Leroy Street Studio. More
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Toshiko Mori and Maya Lin create buildings for Boston pharmaceutical campus
Architects Toshiko Mori, Maya Lin and CannonDesign teamed up to design this new research complex for Swiss drug company Novartis, located in the Boston area. More
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Stern McCafferty Architects converts entrance of old Massachusetts house into a gallery
Boston-based Stern McCafferty Architects has overhauled a country home in Massachusetts, transforming the layout to showcase a collection of art work and expand the living areas into a bright annex. More
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Leers Weinzapfel completes America's first cross-laminated timber academic building
The University of Massachusetts Amherst's new design school is the first academic building in the US to have a structural frame made of cross-laminated timber, according to its architects Leers Weinzapfel Associates. More
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Massachusetts island home features walls of charred cedar and textured concrete
US firms Gray Organschi Architecture and Schiller Projects took cues from the natural terrain of Martha's Vineyard, a vacation island off the coast of Cape Cod, to create this holiday retreat. More
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The architecture of MIT: 10 impressive buildings on the tech university's campus
Dezeen is visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the Being Material conference this week. Here's a look at some of the best architecture at the campus, from Frank Gehry's library to Eero Saarinen's chapel. More
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Bruner/Cott further expands MASS MoCA art museum in the Berkshires
American architecture firm Bruner/Cott has completed the latest stage in transforming a former textile factory into the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. More
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ASH NYC adds pops of pink to Dig Inn Boston restaurant
Pink accents contrast the pale palette that US firm ASH NYC has used for the interior of this farm-to-counter restaurant in Boston. More
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Matter Design's architectural play equipment encourages kids to crawl, jump and fly
Intersecting wood-clad volumes create a playground for children in a Massachusetts suburb to scurry through, clamber over and zip-wire from. More
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Harvard to offer free online architecture course
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is launching a web-based course that offers architectural education at no cost. More
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O'Neill Rose creates elongated wooden home in the Berkshires
A long cypress-clad volume that projects from a hillside in rural Massachusetts forms this home, designed by US studio O'Neill Rose Architects for a nature-loving couple. More
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Eight concrete boxes form a "moveable" vacation home on Martha's Vineyard
A cluster of eight interconnected concrete volumes make up this Martha's Vineyard residence, which is designed to be moved in the event of site erosion (+ slideshow). More
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DuoSkin temporary tattoos can remotely control devices
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have created a series of smart temporary tattoos that can control devices through touch (+ movie). More
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Nick Waldman creates a "studio in the trees" on a holiday island in Massachusetts
Designer Nick Waldman has completed a cedar-clad residence and studio for a graphic novelist in Martha's Vineyard – an island just south of Cape Cod that is a popular destination for affluent summer vacationers (+ slideshow). More
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Jim Stephenson photographs Eero Saarinen's "breathtaking" MIT Chapel
Undulating brick surfaces are concealed behind the smooth, windowless exterior of this chapel by Modernist architect Eero Saarinen, captured in these new images by British photographer Jim Stephenson (+ slideshow). More
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Arquitectonica's Pierce Boston tower to feature apartments aimed at young tech entrepreneurs
Sales have officially launched for apartments inside this skyscraper in Boston by New York firm Arquitectonica, amid a "boom" in the city's luxury condo market created by its growing tech scene (+ slideshow). More
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Merge Architects clads Massachusetts home in weathering steel
US studio Merge Architects has completed a family home in the Boston area with facades clad in pre-rusted steel and interior spaces that overlook slot gardens (+ slideshow). More
