Client: City of Holyoke

Role: Planning

Status: Ongoing

Fact: Volleyball was invented in Holyoke, MA, and the city is now the home to the Volleyball Hall of Fame

Client: New England Conservatory

Role: Architecture

Status: Completed 2009

Fact: During demolition of the existing space, a perfectly preserved wooden floor was discovered beneath the carpet to be removed. The design was altered to incorporate this wonderful find and saved the client thousands of dollars in a new floor.

Client: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Role: Architecture

Status: Completed 2009

Fact:  Through relatively simple suggestions, such as the utilization of compact shelving and consolidation of office spaces, we were able to increase square footage of study and computer areas by 60% and create an additional 4,500 SF of additional book storage space without major structural renovations.

Client: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Role: Architecture

Status: Completed 2007

Fact:  The Teaching Cluster is located in the basement of the Stata Center, the design uses Douglas Fir furniture and 'super graphics' as a nod to the Frank Gehry designed building.

Client: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Role: Architecture

Status: Completed 2005

Fact: The MIT Alumni Pool Curtainwall project received the Cambridge Historical Commission Preservation Award

Client: Beth Menachem Chabad

Role: Architecture

Status: Under Construction

Fact:  Ritual baths, known as 'mikvahs', are located in the lower level of the building. Religious rules require that the mikvah be filled with rain-water, and the water must not be pumped or carried by hand, requiring the baths to be gravity fed.

Client: Communication via Design

Type: Planning

Status: Completed

Fact: These design guidelines will be deployed in the 22 countries where Accion is located

Client: Suffolk University

Type: Management

Status: Completed

Fact: map-lab successfully renegotiated the unit cost of furniture with the furniture dealer which resulted in a 5% savings on the project. 

Client: Corcoran Jennison

Type: Management

Status: Completed

Fact: map-lab re-evaluated project goals while construction and renovations across the 400-acre campus were already underway

Client: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Type: Management

Status: Completed

Fact: By discovering that none of the existing furniture adequately satisfied the student's needs, map-lab advocated for custom designed carrels by the architect.