PERSPECTIVES

DotBlock has won approval from city officials Thursday night!

Along Dorchester Avenue between Savin Hill and Fields Corner, the mixed-use complex will add more than 350 housing units and 40,000 SF of retail to a busy intersection. The biggest project in years in the neighborhood, it also sits along a stretch of Dorchester Avenue and Freeport Street that the BRA plans to rezone for more dense, transit-oriented development.

"It’s a smart place to launch a project that could help transform a neighborhood", said City Council member Frank Baker, who represents the area.

“We need to build on our density in our neighborhood,” he said. “I think this is going to be great for Dorchester, and great for the city.”

Original article by Tim Logan, Boston Globe

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May 13, 2016 – August 19, 2016

East Wing Gallery, 1st floor Campbell Hall, Charlottesville VA

RODE's work with Harvard Art Museums is being featured in the Inaugural UVA School of Architecture Alumni Exhibition “Living-Learning Environments. Twenty first century speculations on the academic village” The inaugural alumni exhibition at the School of Architecture showcases a wide range of innovative work of our alums from the past ten years that have re-defined higher education living and learning environments.

In the 1960s and 1970s, American college campuses—like American suburbs—grew quickly, through dispersed spatial patterns and in the form of single-function zones. Today, students, faculty, staff and alumni want their campuses to provide community as well as a place to educate and be educated. Campus buildings and landscapes should be attractors, spatial invitations to linger, to dream, to gather, to converse, to discuss and debate. They should afford urbanity—the effects of mixed uses, walkable campuses, places that inspire individual and collective discovery, compelling public spaces, ecologically-performative campus landscapes—regardless of the university’s location in a city, a suburb or small town.

This exhibition highlights the diverse ways 51 UVA School of Architecture alumni are contributing to and changing the conversation about the programming, planning and design of living-learning environments in higher education. Reimagining and reinterpreting the concepts of our Academical Village for a twenty-first century university.

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Pictures from March 30, when Kevin Deabler and Mike DelleFave were the ‘expert visitors’ at the Henderson Inclusion School Kindergarten class in Dorchester, MA. The students are learning how to envision, design, work in teams, research, edit and EXECUTE!!!

Amazing stuff being taught to these young kids. They also presented some RODE work, answered A LOT of questions, and participated in critiques of team projects.

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RODE is working with Dorchester Brewing Company to open Boston’s first contract brewery and second full-pour taproom. The 25,000-square-foot facility at 1250 Mass Ave, consists of a large tasting room with a 40-foot bar re-purposed from the buildings original wood flooring, brewery observation, beer garden and a new grain silo which highlights the buildings newly fenestrated facade. Stay tuned for updates as we get closer to the grand opening this spring.

Learn more about our collaboration with Dot Brewery at BostInno!

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It has been a great week for RODE at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, with 232 Old Colony Avenue and 35 South Huntington approved!

Situated between two major red line MBTA stations and bus hubs, 232 Old Colony has been approved for construction. The 24 condo unit building will include commercial/retail opportunity and an offset entry and wider paths, creating a stronger public realm by pushing sidewalk back for outdoor space.

The 35 South Huntington mixed-use 5 and 6 story development includes 38 units and retail space opportunities. Additionally, the building will widen the sidewalk that runs along the first floor commercial space in order to activate a public environment and increase pedestrian interaction.

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