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After two decades in makeshift space, the Rashi School held its first day of school today in its new, permanent home in Dedham, MA, designed by HMFH Architects, Inc. The new school is seeking LEED Silver certification and will utilize its site on the Charles River to create environmental curriculum links.

September 7, 2010 - Boston Globe PDF

On Friday, June 25, HMFH launched summer with its annual bus trip. Each year, the firm’s architects, designers, and other staff tour several in-construction projects. The team visited the Rashi School in Dedham, Boston Renaissance Charter Public School in Hyde Park, and Hanover High School. HMFHers got to see projects at a variety of distinct construction phases, from the early stages of building to nearing completion. Team members compared notes on preferred construction materials, cutting-edge green technologies like displacement ventilation systems, and design challenges, and also gained more complete understanding of HMFH projects currently underway.

On Wednesday, May 26, HMFH Architects and Suffolk Construction welcomed more than two dozen sixth graders from the Boston Renaissance Charter Public School (BRCPS) to the construction site of their school’s future home in Hyde Park, MA. HMFH representatives Chin Lin, AIA, LEED AP and Devin Canton led the students on a tour of the school’s new buildings and explained how the firm was repurposing and renovating a historic mill building and unused warehouse to create BRCPS’s new buildings. After the tour, the students enjoyed lunch with HMFH and Suffolk employees and were given sketchbooks to help them remember the day and inspire them to think like architects.

HMFH Principal, Laura Wernick, shared her experiences as an architect and athlete with girls at Boston’s Umana Middle School Academy last month. Invited by America SCORES New England, a non-profit whose mission is to empower students in urban communities through soccer, writing, creative expression and service learning, Laura was a featured speaker in the Score’s Shining Women, Bright Futures Speaker Series. Speaking with their girls' soccer and writing team, Laura, an avid soccer player in her spare time, talked about becoming an architect and encouraged the girls to pursue their dreams on and off the field.

Matt LaRue, AIA and Seong-Il Ahn, AIA LEED AP, both experienced architects known for their design and sustainability talents, join HMFH as Associates.

Matt, who was nominated for the AIA Young Architects Award, is Project Architect for the Dame-Eastman School, one of three new elementary schools that HMFH is designing for Concord, NH, and he is working with other team members to address the challenges of program equity in three very different buildings on sites ranging from urban to rural.

Seong, whose college and university work has received national design awards, is Project Architect for Wayland High School, a complex reconstruction of a 200,000 sf secondary school campus that is designed around an outdoor student commons and features an integrated daylight system.

HMFH was selected to develop options for a new or substantially renovated facility for this K-5 neighborhood school.

Representatives from HMFH, contractor WT Rich, and project owner City of Cambridge accepted a Performance Award for Cambridge War Memorial Recreation Center at the AGC Build New England Awards Program 2009.

Beaver Country Day School's Arts Center, with its intricate brick-patterned exterior and lobby, was honored with a 2009 Brick in Architecture Bronze Award in the educational category.

June 25, 2009 - Banker & Tradesman PDF

Brookline Town Hall, comprehensively renovated by HMFH, was awarded the Illumination Engineering Society's Award of Merit for Energy and Environmental Design Award.

Cambridge War Memorial was featured on the cover of Athletic Business, in a story about the costs of renovating and operating high school pools.

January 12, 2009 - Athletic Business PDF

The Mary E. Baker School and Manthala George, Jr. Elementary Schools increase capacity and improve equity across districts while incorporating highly visible sustainability elements, such as photovoltaics mounted in the cafetorium doors at the Baker School.