It’s that time of year to find the perfect gift for that special architect or designer in your life.
We’ve polled the office and here are a few items that are at the top of our lists.
For the love of concrete! This set of concrete writing tools is one of a kind. Includes a rollerball pen, sketch pencil and mechanical pencil.
This notebook is described as “the perfect tool for right-brainers and left-brainers alike.” A full 144 pages of graph paper, charts, tables and info graphs.
Get in touch with your inner child and build your favorite landmarks and skylines in LEGO.
Start your collection of designer furniture. Our suggestion: Eames molded plastic side chair.
Or instead of exchanging gifts, check out some great exhibits at the BSA Space located at 280 Congress Street. Currently on display, the 6th Annual Gingerbread Design exhibition are masterpieces created by local architecture and landscape architecture firms from around Massachusetts. This year, 15 teams explored the theme: “Innovations and Firsts.” The exhibit will be open to the public until December 31st from 10am-5pm, except on December 23 which will be open 10am-3:00pm and will be closed all day on December 25.
While you are at BSA Space, you can also check out the four finalists for the BSA/AIA Harleston Parker Medal. This annual award seeks to recognize “the single most beautiful building or other structure” built in the metropolitan Boston area. We are honored that our Northeastern University Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex is a finalist. In the exhibit, you can learn more about all four projects including model replicas of each project. The winner will be announced at the 7th BSA Design Awards Gala on Thursday, January 18.
From all of at Payette, we would like to wish you a safe and happy holiday!
Cape Cod Community College’s Frank and Maureen Wilkens Science and Engineering Center is a net-positive energy building designed to transform the heart of campus.
The project approaches sustainability through a holistic and global approach, implementing a range of moves including passive solar shading overhangs, air-source heat pumps, high performance materials with low embodied carbon and the expansion of the range of thermal comfort and lighting power density. Combined with on-site photovoltaics, the project achieves net-positive energy use.
The project’s thermally modified wood rainscreen façade is a study of the modern expression of vernacular Cape Cod architecture while reducing embodied carbon. Early lifecycle assessments identified the immense carbon savings of wood over fiber cement. The design team did not stop there, furthering reductions by peeling back unnecessary finishes like carpet and ceilings. Together, these decisions enabled a 19% reduction in embodied carbon.
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