DiMella Shaffer | Year in Review | 2014

YEAR IN REVIEW VOL.9

2014 CONTINUITY Having entered our 50th year in business, we celebrated by documenting the history of the firm through our blog buildingconversations.com. While writing, we learned how strong and consistent the personality of the firm remains in its second generation of ownership. We continue to design and explore new project types that keep us engaged in the joy of design discovery. We completed our first student center/library at Fitchburg State University, a six-year phased renovation that embodies the University’s transformed relationship with the city of Fitchburg and our first residential substance abuse recovery center for Spectrum Health Systems. Our interiors group was also hard at work completing The Jewish Vocational Service, an organization that provides job training to diverse populations.

Relationships, always a key to our success over the years, continue to grow. A major renovation of St. Mary’s Hall at Boston College is one whom we have worked with for 20 years. Our work in the life sciences sector, a 20-year-old personal relationship, is also growing into a significant line of early stage life science work with King Street Properties, with whom we completed the UniQure project in Lexington, MA. Our traditionally strong markets of higher education and senior living continue to provide interesting projects. This year we completed the public-private partnership high-rise residence hall East Village at Northeastern University. Additionally, we also completed an affordable senior community for The Neighborhood of Affordable Housing in Carlisle, an AIA Design for Aging award winner.

Lastly, our culture of pursuing balance is intact and evolving. Our mission continues to be to help our clients make the world more beautiful, functional and sustainable. Our goal is to achieve an optimum balance of project factors so we leave the world better than we find it. To this end, we signed the 2030 Climate Commitment this year to reduce our buildings’ energy footprints going forward. Take a minute, and think about the value of balance in your life. If you have a project that could benefit from better balance, give us a call.

Ed Hodges, AIA CEO

Randy Kreie, AIA President

Diane Dooley, AIA Principal

Steve Keyser, AIA Principal

FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT CENTER Fitchburg, MA

BOSTON COLLEGE ST. MARY’S HALL Chestnut Hill, MA

JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS Boston, MA

KING STREET PROPERTIES UNIQURE Lexington, MA

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY EAST VILLAGE Boston, MA

SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS CHARLES J. FARRIS RECOVERY CENTER Westborough, MA

NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING BENFIELD FARMS Carlisle, MA

Boston 281 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210

Seattle 1511 Third Avenue, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98101

Tel 617.426.5004 Fax 617.426.0046

Tel 206.686.0170 Fax 206.686.0171

2014 Projects 1 East Pleasant Street, mixed-use residential; Amherst, MA 165 Cambridge Park Drive, residential; Cambridge, MA 270 Third Street, residential; Cambridge, MA 90 Washington Street; Somerville, MA 181 Washington Street; Somerville, MA Benfield Farms, senior living community; Carlisle, MA Boston College, Devlin Hall; Chestnut Hill, MA Boston College, McMullen Museum; Chestnut Hill, MA Boston College, St. Mary’s Hall; Chestnut Hill, MA Center Communities of Brookline; Brookline, MA Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy; Boston, MA Fitchburg State University, Student Center; Fitchburg, MA Harmon Apartments, affordable specialized housing; Dorchester, MA Jewish Vocational Services, renovation and office fit-out; Boston, MA Kendal-on-Hudson; Sleepy Hollow, NY Kendrick Place, student housing; Amherst, MA Mount St. Mary’s Abbey, master plan; Wrentham, MA Northeastern University, East Village; Boston, MA Olympia Place, student housing; Amherst, MA Oregon Tech, master plan; Klamath Falls, OR Quanterix, office and lab space; Lexington, MA Sitkowski Apartments, affordable senior housing; Webster, MA Spectrum Health Systems; Westborough, MA UMass Amherst, South Academic Facility; Amherst, MA University of New Hampshire, Hamilton-Smith Hall; Durham, NH University Place Residences; Boston, MA UniQure, 113 Hartwell Place; Lexington, MA

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