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LEVER Architecture Wins Design Competition for Campus Expansion of Maine’s Portland Museum of Art

January 9, 2023

The proposed design of the mass-timber addition prioritizes accessibility and openness while celebrating the Pine Tree State’s lumber heritage.

Davis Center at College of the Atlantic by Susan T Rodriguez | Architecture • Design and OPAL Architecture

Bar Harbor, Maine

Suzanne Stephens

November 1, 2021

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A sustainable classroom building by Susan T. Rodriguez | Architecture • Design in collaboration with OPAL embodies the mission of the an environmentally oriented college in Maine.

Somes Sound House

Maine

April 19, 2018

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The client, a family with two young boys, wanted a vacation house built on undeveloped land near Acadia National Park.

House on Maine Coast

The house is designed so that the living-dining area and the master bedroom overlook the water.

Suzanne Stephens

October 16, 2015

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Toshiko Mori designs a modernist house in picturesque Camden, Maine, that is embedded in the earth but opens out to the view.

Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, Colby College Museum of Art

A new gallery designed by Frederick Fisher at Colby College in Waterville, Maine adds onto existing spaces for displaying art, including a 1999 wing designed by the architect himself.

Suzanne Stephens

November 15, 2013

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For a small, private educational institution, Colby College has assembled a formidable cache of American art, including work by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, John Marin, and Alex Katz, among others.

Portland Public Library

March 16, 2011

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A renovation of Portland's International Style public library, with a new café, an expanded computer center, a larger children's area, a new space for teens, meeting rooms, and an auditorium, spread over the main and lower levels.

Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness, Bowdoin College

Cambridge Seven creates an ethereal extension for exercise on a traditional campus.

Suzanne Stephens

November 15, 2010

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Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, has one of the few consistently picturesque New England campuses where brick-and-stone 19th-and-20th-century Federal, Classical Revival, and Gothic Revival structures are clustered around a large, tree-lined quad.

Studzinski Recital Hall and Kanbar Auditorium

Featured in our Performing Arts BTS for its qualities as a musical performance venue, Studzinski Recital Hall captured our attention again, this time for its ingenious story of adaptive reuse from a college swimming pool to an auditorium for musical celebration.

July 1, 2008

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Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College transforms a historic McKim, Mead and White swimming pool into a 287-seat recital hall.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Machado and Silvetti Associates chooses a dialectical, but not dissonant approach to adding onto the historic Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine.

Suzanne Stephens

February 19, 2008

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The wisest architects are often ones who do not hang on too long to their first scheme.

Stowe Hall, Howard Hall, Bowdoin College

August 1, 2000

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Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU

This course covers important considerations when specifying glass railings including best practices in design, component selection, and installation.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 IACET CEU

Join us for an overview of the benefits and considerations of mass timber building enclosure design as well as providing best practices via several case studies of successful projects.