http://www.utiledesign.com Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:30:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chris Genter of Utile recently returned from Quebec, where he visited A. Lacroix et Fils Granite, a family-owned company that is supplying and cutting the granite pavers for the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion. The pavers will form a 40-foot-by-55-foot granite floor map of the Harbor Islands Park. Each element of ... http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/08/24/granite-pavers-for-the-harbor-islands-pavilion/ A week after winning an award for significant neighborhood rehabilitation from the Boston Preservation Alliance, Zumix has been awarded LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Zumix is intended to be a green building demonstration project for nonprofits and the neighborhood of East Boston. http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/08/11/us-green-building-council-awards-leed-gold-certification-to-zumix/ Check out Arch Daily for the great feature on Utile's Moose Hill House, a single family residence completed in 2008. Also, stay tuned for more information on UtileHome, an exciting new initiative geared towards the design of single family homes and interiors! http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/08/09/moose-hill-house-featured-on-arch-daily/ Utile's renovation of the old East Boston firehouse, completed last winter, has just been awarded this year's Significant Neighborhood Improvement Award by the Boston Preservation Alliance! From the BPA website: Built in 1923, the Engine 40 Firehouse originally serviced the Jeffries Point neighborhood of East Boston and eventually housed the ... http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/08/09/zumix-wins-boston-preservation-alliance-award/ Recently, as a special Friday LunchMEAT, the entire Utile staff participated in the firm's first ever U-til-e-Ku-cha, a Pecha-Kucha style presentation of some of the firm's currently active projects. With just 5 slides and 30 seconds per slide, staff gave concise overviews of projects between bites of pizza. ... http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/07/08/u-til-e-ku-cha/ Christina Crawford of Utile and Jason Schrieber of Nelson\Nygaard recently presented the outcome of a public parking garage and parking management feasibility study for Downtown Medford, Massachusetts. The study included test-fit scenarios for a 178-car garage on a municipal parking lot located immediately behind prime retail spaces along High Street. ... http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/06/18/green-garage/ Matthew Littell, Utile principal, was a guest this week on Radio Boston, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti. Littell and MIT’s Tom Piper were invited to discuss the success and failings of the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Downtown Boston. Listen here for a recording of the segment. Utile, under Littell’s leadership, recently ... http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/06/11/matthew-littell-featured-guest-on-wburs-radio-boston/ Last Thursday Utile took a field trip, organized by architect Chris Milford, to visit the Ames Estate in Easton, Massachusetts.  This was to celebrate Utile's contribution to the successful campaign to protect the historic Ames Shovel Shops. The Ames Shovel Shops is part the North Easton historic district that contains ... http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/06/04/utile-visits-ames-gatehouse/ Utile has been hired to conceptualize, design, and produce the Complete Streets manual for the City of Boston. The Utile team, led by Ryan Sullivan and Corey Zehngebot, is working closely with Nick Jackson of the Toole Design Group and Vineet Gupta and Charlotte Fleetwood of the Boston Transportation Department, ... http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/05/05/utile-to-design-city-of-boston-complete-streets-manual/ Under unseasonably tropical skies, the Boston Harbor Island Alliance and the National Park Service co-hosted the official ground-breaking of the Harbor Park Pavilion on May 3. Reflective of the jurisdictional complexity of the project, representatives from dozens of state agencies were there to extol the virtues of inter-agency “partnerships.” ... http://www.utiledesign.com/2010/05/04/boston-harbor-island-pavilion-ground-breaking/