Swan Island Residence
Architect // Maurice Gagnon Architecture
Description
To accommodate the needs of a multi-generational family, our proposal for a home on the New England coast offers these solutions: Single-level living to foster interaction with nature and with each other. Four unique courts balanced with four distinct wings so private and social spaces spill from interior to exterior. Wide, gently curving roofs to capture rain, to capture sunlight, to capture volume underneath. Simple, bowed “frames” for efficient assembly, generous openings and expansive views.
Saint Sebastian Hall
Architect // Oak Point Associates
Description
Saint Sebastian Hall is a 17,000 square foot multi-purpose facility designed by Oak Point Associates. The project is located on the campus of Saint Patrick Academy, an historic Pre-K to Grade 8 school located in Portsmouth. Designed to fulfill the need for additional space and amenities, the facility houses a spacious gymnasium for basketball, volleyball, and tennis, bleacher seating for spectators, locker rooms, two flexible learning spaces, a multipurpose platform for presentations and performing arts, storage rooms, and support spaces. The design boasts large clerestory windows that bring in abundant natural daylight to create a bright, comfortable environment and to reduce the demand for artificial lighting during the day. An interactive ‘sports wall’ is incorporated into the south elevation’s construction assembly to extend the building’s program to the exterior and provide a backdrop for children to kick a soccer ball against or practice their accuracy while throwing a lacrosse ball.
Rosebrook Lodge
Architect // Bull Stockwell Allen
Description
Bull Stockwell Allen designed the four-season on-mountain lodge for the Omni Bretton Woods ski area and Mt. Washington Resort. The 16,500 square foot lodge serves as a special event venue, awarded Hospitality Designs’ Best in Event Space 2022, and destination dining experience for the Mt. Washington Hotel guest, Bretton Woods’ guests and Presidential Range destination visitors. Located near the top of the mountain, and accessed via the resort’s gondola, the lodge includes a coffee bar and fine-dining bistro on the main floor with the top floor dedicated to hosting special events and the winter season skiers looking for on-mountain dining and aprés ski. The lodge’s materials of timber, steel, stone and glass complement the region’s rugged natural beauty. The mountain’s topography and skier traffic patterns informed the design and massing of the building into a ‘knife blade’ form that sits comfortably in the mountain.
Rice Public Library
Architect // Archiphernalia
Description
This mid-century utilitarian structure was transformed into a welcoming 21st-century multi-use space. The project reimagines a former 1950s Army Reserve Center as a vibrant hub to support programming for the local senior community. The municipal facility meets the current need for flexible spaces of various sizes, while anticipating future growth of multi-generational community resources on the site. A new entrance vestibule and canopy provide a covered arrival and seating area and put a welcoming face on the building, “announcing” the new function to drivers on the adjacent thoroughfare. The lounge, a comfortable and inviting gathering space, is the focal point of the new interior while activity rooms of various sizes allow for flexible use, from lectures to yoga and dancing. Finishes throughout the building, including the wood vestibule, tiled fireplace, and felt panel accent walls were chosen to soften the existing masonry construction and provide warm, tactile material elements.
