PAYETTE is pleased to announce that the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health has received a 2015 AIA New England Merit Award. The sole judging criterion is design excellence. The AIA New England award celebration will take place on October 30, 2015.
Beneath layers of renovations of MIT’s historic Building 4, we found something quietly extraordinary—massive planks of lumber, once part of a mezzanine, weathered by age and use. A good wood plank will catch any architect’s eye; we immediately began brainstorming ways to reuse and reinsert this incredible material back into the project as part of our 18,000sf renovation to insert high-performance lab spaces.
We saw not just material, but story—of place, of craft, and past use. What followed was a journey: from reclamation to study models and full-scale steel joint studies. What resulted was a 14-foot conference table of reclaimed wood and steel, designed and fabricated in-house.
Old floors, now foundations for conversation and collaboration.
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