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Last week, our design for Amherst College's Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Lyceum received a 2024 Boston Society for Architecture/AIA Honor Award in the Adaptive Reuse, Renovation, or Preservation Category. Here is a short book about the project! https://lnkd.in/eiCZtGGd Thanks to Amherst College, to our incredible consultant team, and to DOC for building it. This building evolves Bruner/Cott 's design approach to blending old and new, achieves world class performance in operational and embodied carbon, and brings people together to study and explore the human condition.

Celebrating the incredible women shaping our built environment 👷♀️   This #WomenInConstructionWeek & #InternationalWomensDay, we’re proud to recognize and celebrate the talented women at Bruner/Cott Architects and beyond who bring vision, skill, and innovation to every project.    #WICWeek2025 #IWD2025 #BrunerCott

The Huntington Theatre is featured by the National Trust for Historic Preservation! "The Huntington’s $146 million renovation was partly funded by NTCIC tax credits. The funds allowed the theater company to modernize, creating a new universal ADA accessible entrance, elevators, HVAC and other systems, while restoring historical elements like the gold-leaf dome and repurposing historical hardware." Read more: https://lnkd.in/eWK7KDCm

Amherst College's first all-electric building will receive the prestigious Boston Society for Architecture Design Excellence Award. 🌱 The Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum, the first building on campus designed with a goal of zero embodied carbon, is one of the most energy-efficient at Amherst. Debuting this past fall as a space for the humanities, the Lyceum houses the Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) and history department, intertwined with spacious common areas and classrooms. The renovation and addition to the historic Greek revival house on campus was designed by Bruner/Cott Architects. https://bit.ly/40tjFwr 📸: Robert Benson and Chuck Choi

We are thrilled to be presenting at and sponsoring the upcoming #PRP4 Conference, co-organized by Historic Preservation Education Foundation, the Boston Architectural College, and Docomomo US, on March 19-22. The conference program will include three tracks of presentations on advocacy challenges and preservation strategies, history and context and technical conservation issues and solutions for post-World War II resources. Don't miss our team at the following sessions: Josep Lluis Sert: Two University Buildings, Origins, Half-century Life, & Reinvention Henry Moss, AIA, LEED AP Thursday, March 20 | 11:00am – 12:30pm Reglazing Gund Hall: Innovative Design for a High-Performance Future George H. Gard, AIA, David Fixler Friday, March 21 | 11:00 – 12:30pm Preserving Icons of Modernism Moderator: Henry Moss and Docomomo US/New England Friday, March 21 | 9:00am – 10:30am Register here: https://lnkd.in/dfU7mYhF

The conservation of Modernist buildings from the middle of the last century presents a special set of challenges. Many were constructed with experimental materials and systems that are now failing and no longer available or have fallen out of favor. They were built in an age of inexpensive energy and global-warming naivete, often requiring huge quantities of natural resources to heat and cool. How can such buildings be preserved in a way that enhances their performance and sustainability while maintaining their essential character? Gund Hall, home of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), on the university’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus, provides an example. The late-modernist structure, designed by Australian architect John Andrews (a GSD alumnus) and completed in 1972, is a composition in exposed poured-in-place concrete and steel. Glass—as one would expect with a building designed before the 1973 oil embargo—is an essential feature, especially for the studio expanse, which has east-facing clerestory windows incorporated into the cascading roof, and gridded glazed facades on the north and south. Andrews clearly succeeded in making a bold pedagogical statement, putting studio courses at the heart of design education. However, this generous use of glass, all uninsulated and single-pane, created problems almost from the get-go. There was often too much daylight, creating glare, and the trays were cold in the winter, hot in the summer, and prone to leaks, sometimes even dripping on student work. (The roof leaked on this writer’s drawings during a summer program several decades ago.) Over the years, the GSD undertook ad hoc envelope repairs, including patching, caulking, and adding sun-control films to the windows. But now, just over a half century since the building was constructed, the school has completed a comprehensive project to replace the studio volume’s inefficient glazing with advanced, high-performance systems. The envelope retrofit was led by Bruner/Cott, a firm that has undertaken several sensitive conservation and revamp projects, including some on buildings of this era—and at Harvard—such as the renovation of Josep Lluís Sert’s Holyoke Center (now the Smith Campus Center) with Hopkins Architects. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ewYkBJJi Words by Joann Gonchar, FAIA, LEED AP Photos: © Noritaki Minami (1, 3-5); Historic New England, Steve Rosenthal Collection of Commissioned Work (2)

We are thrilled that retrofit has recognized the Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum at Amherst College with 1st Place in the Additions category of the 2024 Metamorphosis Awards! Inspired by the Lyceum of ancient Athens, the Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum is a sustainable academic venue that seamlessly integrates a semi-historic home with a sleek glass and stone addition to create a dynamic hub for learning and collaboration. Read more via retrofit: https://lnkd.in/e3D4yGc3

Gund Hall’s recent renovation—led by Bruner/Cott Architects—demonstrates how thoughtful retrofitting can honor a building’s original character while making it more sustainable. The iconic structure is now equipped with cutting-edge, high-performance glazing that drastically improves energy efficiency without compromising its original character. The project preserves John Andrews' beloved design and sets a new benchmark for how Modernist buildings can be revitalized for the future. Read the full article online or in the November issue of Architectural Record! https://lnkd.in/ewYkBJJi

Exciting News! Bruner/Cott Architects has been honored as a 2024 Emerging-Professional Friendly Firm by AIA New England! This recognition celebrates our dedication to fostering professional growth and personal development for the next generation of architects. We're incredibly proud of our team's commitment to nurturing emerging talent and creating opportunities for career advancement. Are you an emerging professional looking to thrive in an environment that supports your growth? Connect with us and see how we’re designing with purpose. #EmergingProfessionals #Architecture #CareerGrowth #BrunerCottArchitects