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Here are some photos from the event. Last Friday PLA had the opportunity to spread a little Christmas cheer by helping decorate the Heading Home Offices in South Boston. Heading Home is a non-profit organization that provides emergency, transitional and permanent housing. In addition, they provide support services to (formally) homeless and low-income individuals and families in and around the Boston Area. Chris Zarek has been active working with this terrific organization over the last years, helping to re-furbish several transitional apartments. One of our Interior Designers, Catherine Harnist, led our design team’s effort in preparing the space for holiday … Continued

New Health Center in Guaimaca , Honduras End of Year Charitable Opportunity for Giving In the spirit of the holidays, and for those of you that are looking for end – of – year opportunities to donate to worthy charitable causes, the new Health Center in Guimaca, Honduras may be of interest to you. We also encourage you to share this fund-raising appeal with others. Spearheaded by the efforts of two remarkable women (Sister Maria Cabellos and Sister Marta Ines Toro), things are changing in the village of Guaimaca, Honduras (population 10,000). The two nuns are members of Dominican Sisters … Continued

The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob) is the longest running currently active architectural drawing competition in the world. For this year’s 39th annual competition, PLA’s own Alex Hogrefe (also of www.alexhogrefe.com) was asked to sit on the jury along with fellow representation and visualization experts such as architect and University of Michigan Associate Professor Perry Kulper and sci-fi and fantasy artist Stephan Martiniere. I had a chance to ask Alex about his experience and overall impressions of this year’s competition: “The jurors for the competition all brought to the table a unique set of criteria for judging, which I … Continued

PLA was recently awarded second place in the “Small Lots / BIG IDEAS” competition in Northampton, MA. The competition was sponsored by the town’s planning department and called for design solutions well suited for a narrow site not far from Smith College. The Town will make the land available to residents that will build one of the submitted design proposals. Our submission, the “PV+ House” is a prototypical house based on an open plan design found in both the classic New England barn and the New York loft. The 24 by 42 feet footprint providing a compact yet spacious 2,000 … Continued

Recently, Paul Lukez was interviewed for an article in the latest issue of NEA Arts, a quarterly magazine of the National Endowment for the Arts. The article “The Suburban Canvas: An Emerging Architectural Model of Artistic Possibilities”, discusses the current state of suburbia and how new opportunities have begun to arise to creative innovative and sustainable communities. Click Here to view the full article.