Bardt and Leski, partners in the Providence firm 3SIX0, both teach at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and explore ideas by making models—wire frame, paper, cardboard, wood, you name it—and mock-ups at various scales.
Harvard University recently acquired the 1887 Hasty Pudding Club building, formerly owned by the oldest society at Harvard, a secret society that transitioned into a theatrical group by the 1840s.
Restrictive zoning, rather than necessity, is often the mother of architectural invention. Made to withstand the harsh winters of Martha’s Vineyard while treading lightly on the island, the VH R-10 gHouse, designed by architect Darren Petrucci, AIA, was so profoundly shaped by local restrictions that it adopted the zoning district—R-10—as part of its name.
To those who have visited Provincetown, Massachusetts, it would be hard to imagine a 20,000-square-foot institutional building rising up in the middle of that quaint, New England seaside town.
The D’Amour Center for Cancer Care, an ambulatory care facility in western Massachusetts, offers a comprehensive program of radiation and systemic oncology.