Tag: metrowest
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Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman Tennis Center
Weston, MA, 1970, Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates The Wightman Tennis Center sits on a 16 acre plot of land overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike in Weston. The site includes an exterior pool and tennis courts as well as interior courts and club space designed by Kenneth DeMay of Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates (now Sasaki). To account…
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Broomstones Curling Club
Wayland, MA, 1968, by The Architects Collaborative (TAC) Tucked in the woods of Wayland is this unassuming modern cabin-like structure, but hidden inside is the beautiful home of the Broomstones Curling Club. The building was commissioned after both the Wellesley and Weston Country clubs rejected petitions to include a rink in their facilities. The new…
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Westborough High School
Westborough, MA, 1968, by the Architects Collaborative (TAC) Westborough High School was originally designed by The Architects Collaborative under founding partner John “Chip” Harkness who had overseen many of the firm’s local high school projects including the famous Wayland High School. The planning committee’s report on the new high school praised Harkness for his focus…
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Duplicon Headquarters
Westborough, MA, 1969, Pierce & Pierce Architects The Duplicon Co. was a metal stamping company founded in Westborough, MA by Johan and Thomas Andersen. The brothers originally founded the company in an old cement block theater located at the intersection of Route 9 and 495. The company saw rapid growth and in 1969 expanded their…
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Memorial Elementary School
Natick, MA, 1969, Flansburg Architects Students and visitors enter this South Natick elementary school through a scenic path between a promenade of aged trees and a historic stone wall. This decision to set the building at the rear of its plot is actually one of many choices the architects made in order to create a…
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Fellowship Hall, Trinity Church–Presbyterian
Natick, MA, 1953, the Architects’ Collaborative (TAC) Built in 1956, the Fellowship hall for Natick’s Trinity Church – now known as Hartford Street Presbyterian Church – was designed as the first of a four building complex designed to reflect the four pillars of Church life: fellowship, education, meditation, and worship. The original plan would have…