Yesterday PAYETTE’s Young Designer Core (YDC) observed the progress of the construction site at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge. PAYETTE is collaborating with Renzo Piano Building Workshop on this renovation and addition. For more information about the project, visit the Harvard Art Museums’ website.
Due to the close proximity of this project site to PAYETTE, we have been able to lead small groups on tours throughout construction. Because the project is now nearing completion, this is an especially exciting time for a tour: While nearly finished areas show the design intent, they still reveal enough of the construction so the group can understand the method of assembly.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.