Cambridge Seven Associates
Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. (C7A) is an American architecture firm founded in 1962 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The original seven partners, Lou Bakanowsky, Ivan Chermayeff, Peter Chermayeff, Alden Christie, Paul Dietrich, Tom Geismar, and Terry Rankine applied their diverse skills in architecture, planning, exhibit design, graphics, industrial design, and filmmaking to create a single design studio founded on the conviction that each assignment, at any scale, would be an opportunity to apply fresh thinking in search of creative solutions. The firm was founded upon the idea that the collaborative efforts of a varied group of designers and architects would be far more effective than those of any one individual. In writing about the firm, the architecture critic Robert Campbell stated, "From the start, the Seven set out to combine architecture with the other design arts - with exhibits, with graphics, and signage, with public art, with product design, with film, even with city planning. Most of their work is a collaboration among many disciplines..."[1] The practice won the American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award in 1993, and was described by the AIA Committee on Design as "an influential and stimulating example, demonstrating new directions of professional practice."[2]
Cambridge Seven Associates have undertaken work in architecture, urban design, planning, exhibitions, graphic, and interior design. The firm has executed a diverse range of building types including academic, museum, exhibit, hospitality, transportation, retail, office, and aquarium facilities. The firm has practiced throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with an annual revenue of over US$26 million in 2014.[3]
Notable projects
Museums and aquariums
- Children's Zoo and Entry Complex "The Greeting," Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, MA
- Carolina SciQuarium, Greensboro Science Center, Greensboro, NC
- National Aquarium of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah Financial District, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Science Museum and Geo-Climate Centre, King Abdullah Financial District, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- EcoDiscovery Center at the Museum of Discovery and Science, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts, United States,[4] the firm's first major commission
- Boston Children's Museum LEED Gold Expansion and Renovation, Boston, Massachusetts
- Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
- National Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland
- Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Osaka, Japan
- Lisbon Oceanarium, Lisbon, Portugal
- Kuwait Scientific Center, Salmiya, Kuwait
- Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, Alaska
- US Pavilion, Expo 67, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Exhibits
- Gyeonggi Children's Museum, Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
- Knock, Knock Children's Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- 49ers Museum, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California
- Maryland's Sports Experience, Baltimore, Maryland
- KidZooU Exhibits, Philadelphia Zoo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Long Island Sound Exhibits, The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Norwalk, Connecticut
- Dalton Discovery Center, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples, Florida
- Gloucester Harbour Walk, Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- "World Alive" at Discovery Place, Charlotte, North Carolina
- "Everglades Airboat Adventure," "Otters at Play," and Science Theater at the Museum of Discovery and Science, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- The Hall at Patriot Place, Foxborough, Massachusetts
- World Brooklyn Exhibit, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn, New York
- Heifer Education Center, Heifer International, Little Rock, Arkansas
- Aquarium of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Academic
- Gordon School Expansion, East Providence, Rhode Island
- Dining Commons, Westfield State University, Westfield, Massachusetts
- Marine Technology & Life Sciences Seawater Research Building, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- Health and Social Sciences Building, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts
- du Pont Library, Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut
- Rice University Bioscience/Bioengineering Lab, Houston, Texas
- Learning Laboratory for Complex Systems, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Mullins Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, in Amherst, Massachusetts
- College of Engineering and Petroleum, Kuwait University, Sabah Al-Salem University City, Kuwait
- College of Business Administration, Kuwait University, Sabah Al-Salem University City, Kuwait
- College for Women, Kuwait University, Sabah Al-Salem University City, Kuwait
- Center for Art and Dance, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
- Marine Science Center, Kuwait University, Fintas, Kuwait
- Searles Science Building, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
- Kanbar Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
- Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
- Weston Middle School, Weston, Massachusetts
Civic
- Ministry of Education Headquarters Building, South Surra District, Kuwait
- Kuwait National Petroleum Company Headquarters, Ahmadi, Kuwait
- West Cambridge Youth Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Arcus Landmark Depot, Arcus Foundation, Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority stations, Boston, Massachusetts
- Miami-Dade Transit
Hospitality
- Revere Hotel Renovation, Boston, Massachusetts
- Hanover Inn, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
- Liberty Hotel, Boston[5]
- Adaptive Reuse of the Ames Building, Boston, Massachusetts
- Hyatt Place Braintree Renovation, Braintree, Massachusetts
- Charles Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Brookline Courtyard Marriott, Brookline, Massachusetts
Commercial
- Pine Restaurant, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
- Corbu Spa, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 100 Westminister Renovation, Providence, Rhode Island
- Sushi-Teq, Boston, Massachusetts
- CBS Scene Restaurant, Patriot Place, Foxborough, Massachusetts
- Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- House of Blues, Boston, Massachusetts
- Hard Rock Cafe, Boston, Massachusetts
- Hard Rock Cafe, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Hard Rock Cafe, Honolulu, Hawaii
Notes
- ↑ Beaver, Robyn (December 2006). "Contemporary Architecture, Vol. 1". Images Publishing Dist A/C: 242.
- ↑ Jack, Michael (July–August 1993). "1993 Architecture Firm Award: Cambridge Seven Associates". Memo: the Review of People, Information, and Ideas (AIA). pp. 8–9.
- ↑ Cramer, James P. "Almanac of Architecture & Design 2014; 15th edition". DesignIntelligence. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ↑ "New England Aquarium". greatbuildings.com. GreatBuildings.com. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ↑ "The Hotel: History". libertyhotel.com. Liberty Hotel. Retrieved 19 February 2011.