After months of intensive study of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, his biographies and Poe Square, the team of Sculptor, Ann Hirsch, and Architect, Robert Olson, designed and proposed a work with many layers of meaning intended to address and inform all viewers. The design focuses
LandscapeOnline.com 2012 Connecticut ASLA Chapter Design The Excellence Award went to Robert Olson Associates of Boston for the Community Health Center Roof Garden in Middletown, Conn. The roof garden covers 12,400 sq. ft. One-quarter of the garden is enclosed, with a central glass wall pavilion in the
Inside Roxbury's Dillaway-Thomas House, an archeological approach to restoration lays bare a succession of styles By Robert Campbell GLOBE CORRESPONDENT The story of anyone's house. They started with not enough money and just added things as they could afford to. “ Robert Olson, a Boston architect, isn’t talking about
ARCHITECTURE BOSTON The Thompson Sampler Five buildings, five views of an architectural legacy. By Elizabeth S. Padjen FAIA BOYLSTON HALL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, Massachusetts When Ben Thompson, then a principal of The Architects Collaborative, remodeled Harvard’s Boylston Hall in 1959, it had already undergone a century of expansion and renovation. But
PROJECT PROFILE The project’s goals were to create high performance lab spaces that optimize energy and the indoor environment, reduce resource consumption, and increase occupant engagement. The project team was committed to sustainability from the onset and followed the Harvard Green Building Standards to make more
The Decorative Painting Program for interior of Memorial Chapel, completed in May 2004, was the last phase of the renewal of the Memorial Chapel and ’92 Theater complex, begun in 2000. The Decorative Painting is part of an overall design approach that preserves the historic
