Archiscape Blog
New England’s Historic Homes – Part One: 1600’s-1800’s
From the early colonials direct from England to the varied home styles of today, New England has a varied landscape of residences that memorialize the builders, the owners and the times in which they were built. From left to right: Jackson House – 1664; Mulford House – 1680; Nathan Wade House – 1751* Functional: Colonial Style…
From Our Portfolio: Fuzion Medical Aesthetic Boutique
Photo credits: Olson Photography (above and 2nd through 5th below), Karin Patriquin (1st below) / FUZION COMBINES ART AND SCIENCE, AESTHETICS AND FUNCTIONALITY When the owners of a new medical aesthetics group were looking for space to open their practice, they found that the building at 2 Chestnut Street, in the heart of Branford, would…
Tri-Town Family Practice
TRITOWN FAMILY PRACTICE This medical office in Essex, CT, is a family practice which took over a medical space from a radiology group. We looked at a number of ways to reconfigure the available space, while keeping as much of the infrastructure intact as possible. In the schematic phase, we drew up 3 schemes, in…
Industrial Architecture
Buildings housing industrial processes have historically been designed either efficiently for the process, or aesthetically to create a pleasing facade in a neighborhood. Recent architectural projects show that both are possible – an efficient building meant to invite the public in. Three main aspects of these designs are the entry, the office space, and the…
Connecticut’s Industries
Construction of Q Bridge, New Haven, CT Though famed for its rural loveliness, Connecticut derives most of its wealth from industry. Textiles, silverware, sewing machines, and clocks and watches are among Connecticut’s historic manufactures. The state’s principal industries today produce transportation equipment, especially helicopters, aircraft parts, and nuclear submarines; heavy industrial machinery, electrical equipment, electronics and computer equipment;…
Happy New Year!
Quebec City, 2010. Photo, Angelo Accomando. As 2010 comes to a close we want to thank you for your support. May 2011 bring you balance and harmony, vision and clarity, inspiration and integrity. / “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an…
Traveling Architect: Quebec City
Inner Courtyard of the Seminaire de Quebec. All photos, Angelo Accomando ‘Here was a small bit of mediaeval Europe perched upon a rock, and dried for keeping, in this north-east corner of America, a curiosity that has not its equal, in its kind, on this side of the ocean … We rode about as if…
A NORTHERN AUBERGE
Photos: Angelo Accomando The Auberge Saint-Antoine in Quebec City, QC, has a history as varied as that of the city in which it is situated. The oldest section was originally a house built in 1725 by a French fur trader. In 1822, following the Seven Year War, a stone warehouse, now the hotel’s restaurant, was…