Project Category: Engage

Center for the Arts

The Center for the Arts provides a 753-seat flexible event space. The audience chamber orchestra level has a 430-seat telescopic seating system that retracts to create a flat floor general admissions venue for up to 1000 people or a banquet set up for 270 people. The center has two entrances, one on Main Street and […]

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Sargent College

The Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences project encompasses a comprehensive renovation of the first floor and a portion of the second floor of the college’s building. Inside the renewed vestibule, an expanded lobby gives direct access to the Academic Student Services suite, newly accessible restrooms, and four new classrooms. Two of these are […]

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Oak Bluffs Town Hall

The Town Hall was in an old school building first constructed in 1938, then significantly expanded in the 1960’s. After a detailed assessment of the existing building, the design team was determined that the existing heavy timber roof construction, floors, and exterior walls could be retained (approximately 70% of the existing building). The design inserts […]

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Harold C. Smith Learning Commons

Transforming the existing library, a 1971 Brutalist-style concrete and brick building totaling 57,000 SF, into a modern Learning Commons meant virtually turning the building inside out. Creating a vibrant place for students required overcoming the problems of a rigid structure with a deep building footprint, little daylight and numerous building systems challenges. Dark glass and […]

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