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Profile::
Next Phase Studios Architects is a collaborative design firm providing full design services for architecture and interiors. We work as an experienced, integrated team and use a dynamic, problem solving approach. As both individuals, and studio members, we strive for a very high level of expertise and effectiveness. This method leads to creative, innovative design and well managed Project Delivery.
Our team structure allows us to execute a complex range of projects of a diverse type, budget, and size. Next Phase Studios provides project leadership and actively engages a full team of professional engineers, construction & costs consultants, landscape and lighting designers, and required specialists to collaborate with the client & builder from concept through construction and occupation. At the core of this approach is a design process that fully involves the client and adds value in the realization of architecture and its place in the built environment.
The results of our work incorporate the diverse experiences and contributions by all the team members involved in the creative or design process. This inclusive approach allows us to excel, for example, in the fields of Integrated Design, Sustainability and Building Performance. A creative process is always an integrated one within a Collaborative Team. In the context of our work, and brought into focus by each project, known principles and approaches are constantly questioned and interrogated through new methodologies and disciplined design.
In terms of architectural design, we prefer the unusual to the usual, or put another way, we tend to introduce the ‘usual’ in an unusual way. We see the experiential component of architecture, the composition of space and light, as being free and supportive of the social aspects. This leads to what we call human friendly or ‘Humanistic’ Design. We believe that such an approach can introduce a certain lightness and simplicity to architecture resulting in well received projects. |
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Current::
International Competition: Planning of Beijing Gui-River Creative Zone::
NPS is developing a sustainable master plan for a 210,000 sqm site with a mixed program of design studios, education facilities, conference center, museum, and hotel near Beijing, China. NPS was chosen from around 200 applications from all over the world as one of the eight finalists consisting renowned design firms from China, France, UK, the Netherlands and the US.
World's First LEED Platinum Supermarket::
Hannaford Brothers Grocery Store in Augusta, Maine: this daylit 49,000 Sq. ft. new store achieved the first LEED for Retail Platinum designation from USGBC. It uses 59% less energy and 38% less water compare to typical supermakets. Click here to see a photo taken when the store was under construction .
Lecture at Tsinghua University, Bejing, China::
Martin Werminghausen and Minqu Deng were invited by Tsinghua University's School of Architecture to give a lecture on Sustainable Design and Integrated Design Approach in April, 2009. Martin and Minqu were also invited to give a lecture at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China following their very successful lecture at Tsinghua.
On the drawing board::
CMMAEC Convention Center - an invited design competition for Chinese Medicine and Medical Appliance Exhibition Center, a 200,000-square-meter building complex with exhibition/conference spaces and support facilities in Guangzhou, China.
Collabrating firms include: Buro Happold (structure), Transsolar (sustainable design), Stephen Stimson Associates (landscpae) and Architecture Design Institute of CITIC South China (executive architect).
Gallery House - A private residence in Chestnut Hill, MA with modern living space expressing distinct clarity from the outside and spatial liberalness from the inside.
'Green' building is bright and beautiful::
Article by Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell on Genzyme Center wins annual Parker Medal: "What's most striking about Genzyme, though, is the way all these green initiatives work to make the place a physical and social delight." |
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Projects::
Institutional::
[Selected Projects]: Harvard Allston Science Complex, Boston, MA + Mount Pleasant Home, Boston, MA + Buchheim Museum, Bernried, Germany + St. Benno High School, Dresden, Germany
[Additional Projects]:
Solomon-Schector Day School, Newton, MA +
CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Boston, MA
Commercial::
[Seleted Projects]: Genzyme Center, Cambridge, MA +
Hightpoint Wind Turbine Study, Cambridge, MA +
Office Layout & Furniture Design, Cambridge, MA +
Hannaford Brothers Grocery Store, Augusta, ME + VS Headquarters, Tauberbischofsheim, Germany
[Additional Projects]:
Green Street Office, Jamaica Plain, MA + Vedior Software Headquarter, Wakefield, MA + MAG Motor Turbines, Worcester, MA + Robert Allen Contract Fabrics, Mansfield, MA + Broad St. Mill Complex, Hudson, MA + Mt. Pleasant Golf Course, Lowell, MA +
Neustra Culinary Ventures Kitchen Incubator, Boston, MA
Housing::
[Seleted Projects]: The Clarence, Mixed-use, Kingston, Ontario + Parkside Village, Jamaica Plain, MA
[Additional Projects]:
Pondside Manor, Jamaica Plain, MA +
"Heathy Home" Prototype, Roxbury, MA + The Distillery, South Boston, MA + Dickinson Building, Fitchburg, MA + DND Housing, City of Boston + 227 Harvard Street, Boston, MA
Residential::
[Seleted Projects]: Gatehouse Road, Chestnut Hill, MA + Stern Street House, Cambridge, MA + House Sievers, Filderstadt, Germany
[Additional Projects]: John Andrews Street, Jamaica Plain, MA +Essex Street, Chestnut Hill, MA + Tom Never's Head, Nantucket, MA + Monument Ave., Charlestown, MA + The Studio, Charlotte, VT
Competition::
[Seleted Projects]: CMMAEC Convention Center, Guangzhou, China + North Point: Parcel N, Boston, MA + River Douglas Bridge, UK + New York City Bike Rack, NY + Harbor Island Pavilion, Boston, MA + Parachute Pavilion, Coney Island, NY + Sunrise Park, Charlottesville, VA + Golf Tower, Lima, Peru + CT Science Center, Hartford, CT + Radebeul Church, Dresden, Germany
Urban Projects ::
[Seleted Projects]: Harvard Allston Science Complex Planning, Boston, MA + Beijing Rui-River Creative Zone Planning, Beijing, China + De "Levenda Dam", Amsterdam, Netherlands +
City Sculpture, Hannover, Germany
[Additional Projects]: Fenway Urban Village, Boston, MA
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Press::
New York City Bike Rack Competition::
WNYC, New York, NY, October 01,
2008
Next Phase Studios' design entry, "Cable Rack" was selected as one of 10 finalists of the City Rack Design Competition. The design competition drew
2000 participants from 24 states and 26 nations. Next Phase Studio's design prototype was exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
The Clarence Mixed-use Development::
Featured in Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture, by Kiel Moe, 2007
"The book presents 28 case studies that are robust examples of what too often and too easily is described as 'sustainable architecture.' As the book demonstrates, integrated design inevitably means a variety of things to various practices. However, regardless of their impetus, each practice develops productive confluences between energy strategies, construction, and architectural form.
Hannaford Supermarkets::
Maine Government News , ME, September 19,
2007
"AUGUSTA – Governor John E. Baldacci joined Augusta Mayor Roger Katz and Hannaford CEO Ron Hodge today to unveil a
proposal for a new Platinum-certified LEED supermarket at the site of the former Cony High School. The store would be the first
Platinum-certified LEED supermarket in the world and the first green supermarket in the State of Maine, according to Hannaford."
Genzyme Center::
Boston Globe - Editorial Section
Boston Globe - Real Estate Section
METROPOLIS
Boston Magazine
North Point - Parcel "N"::
Boston Globe - Business Section
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