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
Last December, amidst the chilly winter in Boston, our team returned to warmer weather at Virginia Tech for our 3rd OpenLAB Studio Exhibition! [...]
Sho-Ping Chin Exhibit fabricated by Payette at WLS 2023. [...]
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. [...]
The OpenLAB Studio provides us the opportunity to have a cohort of students integrated within our practice and elevates us to teachers for a new group of young architects. [...]
Today we celebrate our newly promoted Associates / Managers Pt. 2. [...]
It is with great pleasure that we announce the following individuals have been promoted to Associate Principal/Director. [...]
Sandrine Héroux recently joined the ranks of the firm’s licensed architects. [...]
A personal note from Annping Chin, sister of Payette legacy Sho-Ping Chin. [...]
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. [...]
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A practice that functions like a school. We teach, we mentor and we give back to strengthen our firm culture, our profession and our community. We are an Academic Practice that engages deeply with the profession and the academy… [...]
Promoting healing process through nature We think of the hospital as a small city. The analogy is a powerful one, a continual reminder that it is first of all a place of human relationships. We conceive of it as a community of neighborhoods, formed around gardens and plazas-moments… [...]
Making clarifies ideas. Clear ideas enable decisions. Decisions move projects forward! Through the art-of-making, we explore and develop new compositional and tectonic possibilities proud of our virtuosity synthesizing program, sustainability, materiality and building form. In our workshop culture, artifacts of process are everywhere –… [...]
In an increasingly digital world, we are equally inspired by physical objects. We believe that hands-on exploration of shapes, textures, materials and details is a critical component of design. payettepeople View… [...]
Students in the OpenLAB program work side-by-side with our designers and architects, reinforcing a holistic curriculum. We engage in deep conversation on design, practice and philosophies for bridging the two with life. This is a chance for students to explore new ways of thinking and making and integrate them into… [...]
In 2022, PAYETTE selected three community partner organizations whose projects represented a range of scales and typologies, from streetscapes to graphic design. PAYETTE volunteers included 23 individuals drawn from multiple areas of our practice. They worked collaboratively with representatives from their partner organizations, arranging in-person site visits and virtual and… [...]
A new pedagogy for architectural education embedded in practice Integrating architectural education with the practice of architecture has always been a signature aspiration for the profession. Each year, OpenLAB Boston provides a unique collaboration between PAYETTE and the Virginia Tech School of Architecture, offering a radical new and effective pedagogy… [...]
Women in Design is an internal employee led group that serves to promote the professional development and advancement of women at PAYETTE through regular dialogues that encourage teamwork, collaboration, and learning in an atmosphere of collegiality. The group includes women professionals with all levels of experience, in all roles, who… [...]
Vision Our Work Invents, Innovates and Inspires. We embrace a practice model based upon collaborative authorship and diverse voices to create boldly original buildings with vision, exceptional execution and grounded by the experience of the people they serve. We embrace rigorous inquiry. Through the art-of-making, we explore and develop new… [...]
The partners at PAYETTE are pleased to announce the establishment of this annual memorial scholarship to honor their friend, colleague and fellow partner, Sho-Ping Chin FAIA. More information about eligibility and administration of the fund can be found… [...]
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. [...]
Originally from Kathmandu, Nepal, Shreeya joined PAYETTE in 2019 and has been an invaluable member of several project teams for clients such as Northeastern University, Harvard University and multiple confidential corporate clients. She brings her diligent and meticulous attention to project work at all phases from design to construction administration. [...]
Sandrine joined PAYETTE in 2020, soon after receiving her MS Arch. degree, where her keen interest in parametric design, complex concrete casting and architectural acoustic performance was explored through fabrication in her thesis. Currently, Sandrine manages our FabLab, shepherding projects of all scales from design through to fabrication. She has… [...]
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. [...]
Charlie has led teams on technically challenging projects such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology PDSI Project, the Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building at Columbia University and the Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street Expansion and Renovation. Charlie’s strength lies in assembling teams that work collaboratively to solve complex problems. [...]
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. [...]