Cambridge Seven Associates
Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. (C7A) is an American architecture firm founded in 1962 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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, annually completing work totaling over US$500 million in construction costs.
Notable projects
Museums and aquariums
- 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,[3] the firm's first major commission
- Boston Children's Museum LEED Gold Expansion and Renovation, Boston, Massachusetts[4]
- Tennessee Aquarium, Chatanooga, Tennessee
- National Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland[5]
- Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Osaka, Japan
- Lisbon Oceanarium, Lisbon, Portugal
- Kuwait Scientific Center, Salmiya, Kuwait
- Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, Alaska,
- US Pavilion at Expo 67, Montreal, Quebec Canada
- San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
- The Boston Museum, Boston, Massachusetts (being built)[6][7][8]
Exhibits
- 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
- Our Common Wealth, The Commonwealth Museum and Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts[9]
- Heifer Education Center, Heifer International, Little Rock, Arkansas
- Aquarium of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Academic buildings
- 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
- 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
- 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
Office buildings
Transportation
Hospitality
- Liberty Hotel, Boston[10][11]
- Adaptive Reuse of the Ames Building, Boston, Massachusetts
- Charles Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Brookline Courtyard Marriott, Brookline, Massachusetts
- House of Blues, Boston, Massachusetts
- Hard Rock Cafe, Boston, Massachusetts
- Hard Rock Cafe, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Hard Rock Cafe, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Sushi-Teq, Boston, Massachusetts
- CBS Scene Restaurant, Patriot Place, Foxborough, Massachusetts
Institutional buildings
- Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- West Cambridge Youth Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Greensboro Cultural Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Landmark Depot, Arcus Foundation, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Notes
- ^ Beaver, Robyn (December 2006). Contemporary Architecture, Vol. 1. Images Publishing Dist A/C. p. 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.
- ^ "New England Aquarium". greatbuildings.com. GreatBuildings.com. http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/New_England_Aquarium.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "Being Green". bostonchildrensmuseum.org. Boston Children's Museum. http://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/about/green_museum.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "Who was the architect for the main Aquarium building?". aqua.org. National Aquarium. http://www.aqua.org/faq_faq_architect.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "The Boston Museum, Boston, Massachusetts". c7a.com. Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc.. http://www.c7a.com/Portfolio/museums/the_boston_museum.asp?pos=0#. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ Palmer, Thomas C., Jr. (19 March 2008). "Boston Museum seeks new site". boston.com. Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/03/19/boston_museum_seeks_new_site. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "Boston Museum Bids onNew Downtown Site". bostonmuseum.org. The Boston Museum. http://www.bostonmuseum.org/. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "Commonwealth Museum". sec.state.ma.us. State of Massachusetts. http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mus/museum/index.htm. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "The Liberty Hotel, Boston, MA". c7a.com. Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc.. http://www.c7a.com/Portfolio/hospitality/charles_street_hotel.asp?pos=0. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
- ^ "The Hotel: History". libertyhotel.com. Liberty Hotel. http://www.libertyhotel.com/the_hotel/history.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
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