Community NewsJan 27, 2023 Share ↗ Boston Globe Spotlights Harleston Parker Winner "As If It Were Already Here" Photography by Melissa HenryThe Boston Globe recently featured coverage of Janet Echelman's 2022 Harleston Parker Medal Award-winning sculpture "As If It Were Already Here" on bostonglobe.com (paywall).Noting that this year's medal marks the first award for an ephemeral work, the Globe observes that the award jury vigorously discussed the time-limited 2015 work, ultimately conferring the medal, which annually recognizes “the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument, or structure built in the metropolitan Boston area in the past 10 years.”Further detail about the Harleston Parker Medal and BSA Design Awards can be found on the BSA website at designawards.architects.org.
2023 Mass Timber Accelerator Awardees AnnouncedTo help meet the City of Boston’s ambitious goal of getting to carbon neutral by 2050, the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) and the Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) recently announced the second round of awardees in the Boston Mass Timber Accelerator program. Three development projects in Boston were selected to receive funding and technical assistance to explore the feasibility and embodied carbon potential of using mass timber construction.Community NewsMar 08, 2023