Profile Projects People Press Contact

 

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.

Back to top

 

  Current::

Recently completed and published::
Interview with Rick Ames - Green Building & Design Magazine, Nov/Dec, 2011.

Mount Pleasant Home - Jamaica Plain Gazette, July 22, 2001

Hannaford Supermarkets - Building Stone Magazine, Fall, 2001, Pages 42-47

On the Drawing Board::
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Housing & Community Development (DHCD) - House Doctor Program for Repairs and Renovations at Various Local Housing Authorities:

Braintree Housing Authority - Community Center Accessibility.

Whitman Housing Authority - ADA Bathroom Renovations.

Wilmington Housing Authority - Feasibility Study

Genzyme Center, Cambridge, MA - Space Planning & Office Fit-Out.

From the Construction Site::
Cambridge Housing Authority - Jefferson Park Apartments, Cambridge, MA.
Building envelope and roof upgrades, solar readiness and new energy efficient mechanical systems for seven buildings are currently under construction.

Mount Pleasant Home - The $13 million project currently under construction revitalizes a historic Georgian Revival Residential Care building by creating a sustainable, healthy living environment emphasizing daylighting and a rigorous building envelope. A new residential wing is connected to the historic structure by an enclosed public atrium creating a shared, multi-level space with living, dining, and community spaces.

Greenfield Community College Greenhouse - An energy neutral greenhouse and science facility with extensive integrated renewable and solar energy systems as a teaching and research demonstration project. The highly insulated envelope and strategically glazed structure uses its form and shell to dramatically reduce energy consumption while balancing plant growth and performance.

 

back to top
Back to Top

 

 

Projects::

Institutional::

[Selected Projects]: Greenfield Community College Greenhouse, Greenfield, MA + Mount Pleasant Home, Boston, MA + Harvard Allston Science Complex, Boston, MA + Buchheim Museum, Bernried, Germany + St. Benno High School, Dresden, Germany

[Additional Projects]: Putterham Branch Library, Brookline, MA + Solomon-Schector Day School, Newton, MA + CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Boston, MA

Commercial::

[Selected Projects]: Hannaford Brothers Grocery Store, Augusta, ME + Guangzhou Convention Center, Guangzhou, China + Genzyme Center, Cambridge, MA + Highpoint Wind Turbine Study, Cambridge, MA + Office Layout & Furniture Design, Cambridge, MA

[Additional Projects]: Brigham and Women's Hospital, New Primary Care Clinic, Boston, MA + Green Street Office, Jamacia Plain, 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::

[Selected Projects]: Mount Pleasant Home, Boston, MA + Burroughs Street Condos, Jamaica Plain, MA + The Clarence, Mixed-use, Kingston, Ontario + Parkside Village, Jamaica Plain, MA + Nuestra Commidad Healthy Home, Roxbury, MA + Distillery Redevelopment, South Boston, MA

[Additional Projects]: Cambridge Housing Authority - Jefferson Park Apartments, Cambridge, MA + Dickinson Building, Fitchburg, MA + DND Housing, City of Boston + 227 Harvard Street, Boston, MA

Residential::

[Selected Projects]: Gallery House, Chestnut Hill, MA + John Andrews Loft, Jamaica Plain, MA + Sterns Street House, Cambridge, MA + Alveston Residence, Jamaica Plain, MA + Essex Road Residence, Chestnut Hill, MA + 26 Arbutus Residence + Arborview Residence + Deering Road, Modular Triple-Decker + Gatehouse Road Residence, Chestnut Hill, MA + Meadowbrook Residence, Wellesley, MA + Tom Nevers Head, Nantucket, MA + Ludlow Residence, Jamaica Plain, MA + Ahern Residence, Chestnut Hill, MA + Freeman Residence, Newton, MA + Framer Road Residence, Wellesley, MA

Complete Project List

Competition::

[Selected Projects]: North Point: Parcel N, Boston, MA + Solar Village, Hadley, 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 ::

[Selected Projects]: Beijing Gui River Creative Zone + Harvard Allston Science Complex Planning, Boston, MA + De "Levenda Dam", Amsterdam, Netherlands + City Sculpture, Hannover, Germany

[Additional Projects]: Fenway Urban Village, Boston, MA

 

back to top
Back to Top

 

 

People::

Current Staff::

Rick Ames + Martin Werminghausen + Minqu Deng + Greg Smith + Keith Campbell + Andrew Todd Marcus + Christoph Gervais + DiAnn Mroszczak + Eliot Stulen + Amy Brassard

Collaborators::

Behnisch Architekten
[Behnisch Architekten is a renowned architectural firm located in Stuttgart, Germany.]

Bartenbach LichtLabor
[Leading authority in daylighting and optimized artificial light for all aspects of the built environment]

Fore Solutions
Long-term integrated design and LEED consultancy led by Gunnar Hubbard]

Transsolar
[A progressive climate engineer providing innovative design services for award winning projects]

Michael Singer Studio
[Michael Singer, Artist and Environmental/Landscape Designer]

 

back to top
Back to Top

 

 

Press::

Gallery House, Chestnut Hill, MA::
Boston Globe, Lifestyle, House & Home, October 31, 2010

Next Phase Studios designs a modern contemporary home in Chestnut Hill that connects to air, nature and daylight.

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 200 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

 

back to top
Back to Top

 

 

Contact::

Address: Next Phase Studios, 344 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116

Telephone: 617.375.9300

Fax: 617.375.9398

Email: Info@nps-architects.com

[click here to download directions.pdf]


View Larger Map

 

 

back to top
Back to Top

 

 

V 5.0 © 2008 Next Phase Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.