Project
The two distinct program elements of the Hengqin Innovation Center – the Conference Center and the Innovation Research Center – are expressed as two complimentary architectural forms: the Jewel and the Mountain. [...]
Located at the heart of the NUIG Campus, the new Humanities and Social Sciences Research Building houses next-generation graduate, post-graduate, and faculty library space dedicated to academic research. NUIG’s vision for the building aspired to facilitate knowledge generation and to foster collaboration in a flexible space dedicated for research. The heart of the building features two “stackless” reading rooms, designed and furnished to enable individual and collaborative scholarship. [...]
Blog Post
Our OpenLab Boston team recently returned from a trip to Blacksburg, VA where student work from our Fall 2022 Oasis Studio was exhibited at the Virginia Tech School of Architecture and Design. [...]
Payette recently hosted an art exhibition of Payette People’s personal work in the Wilson Practice Room. The exhibit displayed an all-encompassing miscellany of artists, media and techniques. [...]
Next up in Payette’s continuing series of exhibition models is the Fifth Xiangya Hospital. Now under construction, the iconic building has its own scaled replica in our office, following the same language as the Hengqin ICTR. The exhibition model represents one of the two… [...]
Nearly two years after our first exhibit at Virginia Tech, we returned to Blacksburg with a truck loaded with models, furniture and artifacts from the inaugural OpenLab Studio. [...]
Parke MacDowell looks back on the role of fabrication within the studio this year. [...]
We are deeply saddened to announce that Tom Payette, the founder of our firm, passed away on November 12th, alongside his family after battling a long illness. [...]
We are thrilled to welcome our 13 fourth-year architecture students from Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design for the Center for Design Research OpenLab Boston Studio. [...]
Intern Zicheng (Roy) Zhang shares his experience at a site tour of Payette's projects at Northeastern. [...]
A’22 was a great opportunity to connect readers with the authors of our recently published monograph, Fusion — The Performance of Architecture. [...]
At its core the Spatial Equity Research Group is interested in design through the lens of social equity, diversity, and inclusion. This post is the third in a series exploring equitable design standards. [...]
Three members of our University of Hartford team participated in the inaugural Porcelanosa International Project Awards (PIPA) program in Milan, Italy. [...]
A recap of our annual Day of Service project with Elevated Thought, a remarkable non-profit that believes all young people should and could have access to wide-ranging, creative and alternative learning opportunities. [...]
The sixth in a series recapping Design Week, the annual tradition when we as a firm collectively explore projects we have worked on during the previous twelve months. [...]
Congratulations to Parke MacDowell for being selected for the 2022 AIA Young Architects Award. [...]
For 2022's MLK Day of Service, the team identified four aspects of the Blue Hills Trailside Museum in its current condition that could be modified to improve visitor interaction and engagement. [...]
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We love sharing the artifacts of our process. Over the course of the past year, Payette is honored to have been selected to present lectures and exhibit our work at several architecture schools along the east coast. Through drawings, models and finished photography the way we design and think about… [...]
Striving for an equitable, diverse and just architectural profession The more diverse the perspectives of those who participate in the design process and contribute to the culture of our firm, the stronger and better the work will be. Payette’s design philosophy celebrates architecture… [...]
People
Mi joined Payette in 2018 as a Graphic Designer with over six years of experience in marketing and PR firms. She currently leads all of the firm’s project photography, exhibition design and was a part of the design team for the firm’s monograph: Fusion. [...]
Since joining Payette in 2004, Diana has been a key team member on healthcare, higher education and research projects. [...]
Parke joined Payette in 2015 after working at NADAAA. During his first few years at the firm, Parke has been an integral part of design teams on a broad range of projects. [...]
Denise joined Payette in 2006, and serves as a Studio Manager to support a diverse number and scale of public and private projects. [...]
Research Projects
While low-emissivity (low-e) coatings have historically only been applied in between panes of glass in order to protect them, this new innovation has opened up a plethora of potential opportunities and research questions with major consequences for architectural practice. In order to understand these phenomena and assess their relative intensity, our practice performed a series physical experiments on different types of IGUs. [...]