Boston, Massachusetts
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The Institute of Contemporary Art, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, sits harborside, backed by the financial titans of the city skyline. The surrounding parking lots will disappear as the district is developed in the coming years. -
In the centuries since Boston’s founding, Deer Island has been used as an internment camp for Native Americans, a point of entry for Irish immigrants, and a prison. Now it’s home to a waste-water treatment plant and a state park. -
Artists and others who live and work along the Fort Point Channel were less than pleased about the massive Vent Building 5, one of five structures that deliver power and fresh air to the Big Dig’s underground highways. -
Orinoco restaurant is loved as much for its warm, casual environment as for the traditional Venezuelan cuisine. -
Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius lived in the house that bears his name from 1938 until his death in 1969. -
The bare cabin where Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden is long gone, but the pond still offers an escape from urban life. -
True to the quirky vision of its founder, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s collection mixes major with minor. Titian’s Europa, on a wall upholstered in French fabric, holds court over an 18th-century Italian chair and other assorted pieces. -
The Titian room at the Gardner Museum overlooks an interior courtyard. -
Chief curator Nicholas Baume in the ICA’s digital media room. -
Cherries, fava beans, fiddlehead ferns, and other organic local treats for sale at Plum Produce. -
The windows of the ICA's theater offer an expansive view of the harbor and the cantilevered galleries above. -
One of the dozen small public spaces that dot the South End, Blackstone Square is a lively center of civic life—filled with yuppie dog owners and young parents with children. -
Brick bowfront rowhouses, most constructed in the mid-19th century, are a South End signature.
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Building Your Brand as an Interior Designer
A Conversation with Mary McDonald and Martyn Lawrence Bullard, moderated by Matthew Stewart, Editorial Relations Manager of Niche Media
Join celebrity designers Mary McDonald and Martyn Lawrence Bullard for an inside look at how they have built their wildly successful, yet wholly individual, brands. Mary and Martyn will offer insight on how to transition your interior design business into its own luxury brand, making yourself the star of your own show. The conversation will be moderated by Matthew Stewart, Editorial Relations Manager of Niche Media, publishing group of Boston Common Magazine.After the talk, preview Martyn’s new wallcovering collection and Mary’s new fabric and rug collection in the Schumacher & Patterson, Flynn & Martin showroom | Suite 529.
Ecology.Design.Synergy Exhibition
Ecology.Design.Synergy redefines the term “sustainability” by examining how people inhabit their built environments. This exhibition showcases the innovative design approach of Behnisch Architekten and Transsolar ClimateEngineering as illustrated by a roster of international projects and ongoing collaborations.
Behnisch Architekten, long known in Europe for its dedication to sustainable practices, has built a reputation in the United State through it 10-year-old Los Angeles office, now joined by a studio in Boston. The architecture firm’s clients include the City of Santa Monica, Harvard University, Yale-New Haven Hospital, and University of Baltimore, among others. Its best-known North American building is the LEED-Platinum Genzyme Center in Cambridge, MA, which is featured in the exhibition.
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