Articles Tagged with ''Massachusetts''

There are times when a site is so perfect, so breathtaking, there is nothing for an architect to do but surrender to it.

A family wanted a light-filled, modern beach house that was spacious enough for gatherings, but intimate enough for a winter retreat.

Last fall, the artist Tatzu Nishi created a fully furnished living room around the statue at the center of New York's Columbus Circle.

Awe is a concept central to Judaism, and awe is the feeling you get as you enter Temple Beth Elohim, a Reform synagogue in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

“True Science thrives best in glass houses, where everyone can look in,” wrote Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist Max Perutz. Boston-based William Rawn Associates, Architects (WRA) took this sentiment to heart in the design of their Pritzker Science Center at Milton Academy, which puts visibility, in every sense of the word, front and center.

The development of this site in Massachusetts by two generations of a very close family in the Berkshires has lasted more than a decade.

Occupying the crest of a windblown bluff overlooking the Atlantic and nearby saltwater ponds, this four-bedroom, 6,850-square-foot summer house was intended to be reminiscent of the early camps in Martha’s Vineyard.

To First-time visitors to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), it might appear that the fruits of its $345 million capital project are limited to the recently opened Arts of the Americas Wing at the building’s eastern end, designed by London-based Foster + Partners.

The Digital Images and Slide Collection at Harvard College’s Fine Arts Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, houses more than 750,000 images in 35-millimeter-slide and digital formats.