Guilford Woodruff Housing
Our office teamed with a site/civil engineer, surveyor, landscape designer and funder, to explore the feasibility of affordable housing for the Town of Guilford. The site has multiple opportunities and constraints on development, including wetlands, limited soil suitability for septic and stormwater, brownfields, and existing adjacent facilities. We prepared 3 options for the configuration of…
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This parcel of land in the center of Madison, ideally located for walkable amenities and beach access, centers around an existing historic house known as “The General’s Residence” after one of its storied owners. The concept for a new community of condo units involves locating single-family detached homes along the road, facing a new communal…
Read MoreGreenwich Academy
Greenwich Academy is an independent, college preparatory day school for girls located on a 39-acre campus in central Greenwich, CT. Campus facilities include Ruth West Campbell Hall, buildings for the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools, and the Ridgeview Avenue Campus that accommodates the Pre-Connecting and Connecting (Pre-K and Kindergarten) classes. On the Ridgeview Avenue Campus,…
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Slate School is an independent elementary school in North Haven, CT situated on a 25-acre parcel featuring forest, open meadow lands and organic gardens. This backdrop celebrates nature as a means to observe and play. The School’s small, single-story buildings minimize site disturbance by occupying the same footprint as the large 1980’s-era single family home…
Read MoreEsana Plastic Surgery Center & Medspa
A former furniture retail store in Guilford, CT, is the new home of Esana MedSpa and Plastic Surgery Center. The building is made up of a historic pre-Revolution house and a large barn-like addition from the 1990s. We have designed modern medical offices, patient and staff areas in the existing spaces of this building, while…
Read MoreTrinity Baptist Church Addition
The continuous growth of the congregation at Trinity Baptist Church has led the leadership to the consideration of a new building that will connect the two existing historic buildings and offer classrooms, offices and meeting spaces. The new two-story building creates a new entrance to the small campus, expands the classroom possibilities and allows congregants…
Read MoreQuinnipiac River Oyster Farm
The Quinnipiac River Oyster Farm is a fourth-generation aquaculture site owned by Norm Bloom and Son, and is one of the last traditional oyster farms in the United States. Our master plan for their New Haven location explores traditional and modern production patterns for growing, harvesting, shucking and preserving oysters in the heart of Fair…
Read MoreHeights on the River
Once home to a bustling commercial streetscape with apartments on upper floors, this stretch of East Grand Avenue, the gateway to Fair Haven Heights, sits almost vacant today. We propose to bring rental apartments, a new restaurant/café to the corner at the river, a private entrance for residents and retail spaces that will likely attract…
Read MoreThe Vault
This historic building in Norwich, CT known as Geer’s Block was built circa 1878. The longtime home to an insurance company, with a large vault in the basement, our modernization proposes a mixed-use building of cafe/restaurant on the street level and four apartments on the upper floors. On the ground floor, the original mosaic floor,…
Read MoreRestaurant Concept
Located in an area of local businesses and residences, and close to two colleges, this restaurant will serve a mixed clientele from lunch into late evening. The building had two vacant tenant spaces, the larger of which we converted into an open dining area with views to the kitchen prep area and pizza oven. The…
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