Our new mobile office building for Save That Stuff, a recycling and composting company, is well into construction at the factory. In keeping with the client’s mission, the project started with old construction trailers to provide efficient, sustainable, and well … Continue reading →

We’re very pleased to announce that the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion won a 2011 Honor Award for Design Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects. From the jury comments: The design is a wonderful example of how a simple issue—in … Continue reading →

This winter Utile completed work on the MIT Center for Real Estate’s new offices overlooking Massachusetts Avenue on the third floor of MIT’s Building 9.  This new home will further the integration of the real estate program with graduate education … Continue reading →

This past summer Utile completed work on The Advent School’s SMART Lab, a satellite facility housing the independent elementary school’s science, math, and art programs.  Located a few blocks from the school’s main campus on Beacon Hill, the new facility … Continue reading →

Utile has been hired by The Beal Companies to develop a sustainable cafe concept for the main office building at The Arsenal on the Charles complex. The study reveals how the surplus space in the lobby area can facilitate  increased … Continue reading →

Fast progress is being made at the First+First Townhomes project in South Boston: 10 of the units are fully framed, and foundations are now started on all the remaining units. Windows started going in yesterday, and rough-ins, roofing, and insulation … Continue reading →

At last! Our urban design for Broad Street is taking shape. They are currently installing our state-of-the-art storm water collection system, developed by our landscape partners Richard Burck Associates. What you see (above left) are the PVC water collection sumps, … Continue reading →

Tim Love recently appeared on a panel at Build Boston about how architects and developers can work together to engage the community and ensure the success of their projects. Helene Solomon moderated the panel, which also featured Aaron Gornstein, executive … Continue reading →

Utile, Inc. has been designated by the Boston Redevelopment Authority as the master planners for City Hall Plaza. Utile–working closely with Reed Hilderbrand Associates and Alex Krieger of Chan Krieger NBBJ–will develop an implementation master plan for the plaza, building … Continue reading →

The new curtain wall for Mattahunt Elementary School is going up! Utile has been working with Gale Associates on the project for the Boston Public Facilities Department.

Utile is part of a collaborative team, led by McMahon Transportation and Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, that is studying McGrath Highway for its potential to reconnect fragmented Somerville while still serving local and regional traffic needs. The team has finished the … Continue reading →

We’re very pleased to announce that the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion won the Grand Honor Award at the Build New England Awards gala last night. The Build New England Awards program, organized by the Associated General Contractors (AGC), recognizes project … Continue reading →

Utile and GFC Development are pleased to have been selected for Mayor Menino’s Energy Positive “E+” Green Building Demonstration Program. Utile and GFC will be developing a project for 64 Catherine Street in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Congratulations to the … Continue reading →

The Provincetown Harbor Hotel was named the best Cape Cod boutique hotel by Boston Magazine’s annual “Best of Boston” issue, and was lauded for its “mod new look” and “superb amenities”.  The hotel opened on June 24th.

Utile, with CPCS Transcom, is helping the Tanzania Ports Authority develop strategies to revitalize the downtown Dar Es Salaam waterfront. Like cities across the globe, Dar Es Salaam is trying to capitalize on its waterfront as a driver of economic … Continue reading →

In today’s Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid writes about public art in Boston (full article here), and she mentions the Nature Special temporary exhibition, curated by the DeCordova, at the Harbor Islands Pavilion on the Greenway: The Boston Harbor Islands Alliance … Continue reading →

On the Boston magazine website, Janelle Nanos wrote about the new Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion: . . . It’s a welcome reprieve from the otherwise frenzied tourist outposts that line the harbor. Its thoughtful, open-air design showcases a mix of … Continue reading →

The Northeastern University News Office produced a three-minute video about the pavilion and the Harbor Islands, with interviews with Tom Powers, president of the Boston Harbor Island Alliance, Bruce Jacobson, the NPS superintendent for the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation … Continue reading →

The Provincetown Harbor Hotel will officially open today, June 24.  It was featured in yesterday’s Metro (full article here), which praised the hotel for its “fun and simple” makeover and “functional, modern” appeal.  For full details, visit www.harborhotelptown.com.

Utile founding principal Tim Love will be speaking at TEDxBoston on June 28th. Watch the live simulcast online!

Michael LeBlanc recently spoke about Utile’s work at the Hillside Salon at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst. Michael is an alumnus of the university’s architecture program.

As part of the Boston Harbor Association’s series on “A Clean Boston Harbor: What Next?”, Mimi Love spoke about Utile’s recent work on the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at the Moakley Courthouse. e 

Utile has partnered with Stoss Landscape Urbanism for a study of the New Haven Mill River District for the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven and the City of New Haven. An article in the New Haven Register lays out … Continue reading →

Tim Love and former Utilian Christina Crawford (currently a PhD student at Harvard) recently published “Plot Logic: Character-Building through Creative Parcelization” in Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process.

The Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion on the Greenway officially opened on Thursday, June 2. The pavilion was also featured in an article by Casey Ross in the Boston Globe (full article here) on June 1, 2011.

Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion was featured prominently in an op-ed by Renée Loth in the Boston Globe this past weekend (full article here).  The article highlighted the pavilion’s forward-looking design, its full range of sustainability features, as well as its … Continue reading →

Matthew Littell spoke at the recent Residential Design and Construction conference on Spencer Green. Utile worked on the 48-unit affordable, sustainable rental housing project for Chelsea Neighborhood Developers.

Utile has been working with Reed Hilderbrand on a study of City Hall Plaza for the EPA’s Greening America’s Capitals initiative. A three-day workshop in December helped identify priorities for the plaza. Casey Ross interviewed Tim Love and writes in … Continue reading →

Utile has been hard at work designing the graphics and a website for the Boston Transportation Department’s (BTD) Complete Streets Manual. Working iteratively with the BTD, Toole Design Group, who are writing much of the manual, and an Advisory Committee … Continue reading →

The North Bridgton House is featured in the January/February 2011 issue of Maine Home + Design.

The Double Gable House, west of Boston, is nearing completion, and Utile made an office field trip to the house.

The Boston Globe featured an article about Tim Love’s recent presentation of Utile’s work for the EPA on City Hall Plaza at a City-sponsored symposium on Greening Government Center.