Governor Charlie Baker announced the 2019 Affordable Rental Housing Awards, which will support the preservation and production of 1,581 rental units, including 1,349 affordable units. Projects advanced through this initiative include Phase 2 of the Whittier Choice Neighborhood, designed by The Architectural Team with landscape architecture by Halvorson Design.
Yale New Haven Hospital announced the launch of a major healthcare investment on its Saint Raphael campus in New Haven. The $838 million project would include two new patient facilities, designed by architects Shepley Bulfinch with landscape architecture by Halvorson Design, and focus on innovation in the neurosciences.
The Patriot Ledger reports that the design for improvements to the East Milton Square Deck and surrounding roadways is nearly complete. Halvorson Design has been collaborating with engineers Howard Stein Hudson and the Town of Milton to create a flexible, welcoming public park on the Milton Square Deck that features an open lawn, surrounded by trees, and will be able to host community events.
Final plans for the renovations are expected to be completed by August, with construction beginning next spring.
Tremont Crossing, a new mixed-use complex in Roxbury that has been in the works for several years, is expected to break ground this summer.
The Boston Planning & Development Agency gave final approval to Feldco Development and Emma Lewis Partners to lease the site, which sets the stage for the development team to begin work on the proposed 1.7-million-square-foot complex featuring more than 700 apartments, offices, a new museum of National Center of Afro-American Artists, over 400,000 square feet of retail, and parking for nearly 1,400 cars. Halvorson Design is providing landscape architecture for the 7.5-acre site.
Clippership Wharf, the much-anticipated waterfront development rising in East Boston, has begun preleasing in advance of its June opening. The four-building complex, developed by Lendlease with The Architectural Team and landscape by Halvorson Design, will feature 284 apartments and 194 condo units, a meeting/event space, art gallery, and public access to the waterfront.
The Arts and Community buildings at St. Paul’s School were recognized with the 2019 AIA New Hampshire Merit Award for Design Excellence, Designed by Ann Beha Architects, with landscape by Halvorson, the spaces reinvigorate the arts program, “creating a comfortable place for young artists to create, and a welcoming gallery for formal and informal exhibits.”
Fuse Cambridge, designed by architects DiMella Shaffer with landscape architecture by Halvorson Design is featured in this article about how developers are luring prospective tenants away from expensive cities by “urbanizing” the suburbs. Spoiler alert: Fuse Cambridge helps to solve the “car challenge” by offering more bicycle parking than car storage.
Quincy’s new Hancock Adams Common, designed by landscape architects Halvorson Design with project manager Woodard & Curran, was honored with the 2018 Planning Project Award by the American Planning Association (APA) Massachusetts chapter. The APA MA Awards program recognizes outstanding projects, people and organizations, which have made “a significant contribution to the field of planning.”
In this opinion piece for Metropolis Magazine, The Architectural Team’s Michael Liu addresses the need for Boston to “move beyond project-by-project responses to rising sea levels.” He cites recent and ongoing efforts, such as Clippership Wharf an innovative multi-family residential development designed by TAT with landscape architecture by Halvorson Design for developer Lendlease that features a living shoreline and other strategic site design measures to protect against storm surges and flooding.
