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A deck with a view
The Kickstand and creative placemaking
We designed this pop-up mini-park in a leftover off-street parking area on Langdon Street in downtown Montpelier, Vermont. Built by Rogen Design-Build it was installed for three summer seasons. It provided a shaded flexible seating area and bike parking. My son called it The Kickstand due to it being right next to a bike shop. The name stuck. Ward Joyce collaborated with us on this project.
Approachable and elegant by design, National Life lobby completed
Earlier this summer Arocordis Design’s longtime client, National Life Group, an Insurance and Financial Services company headquartered in Montpelier, began using their newly renovated lobby designed by Arocordis Design.
The renovated 4,500 SF Lobby elegantly opens up and makes more approachable a campus wide space used daily by over 2,000 people. Arocordis Design aligned the renovation design with National Life’s youthful #Cause driven culture and sustainability ethos while elegantly connecting to its past........
Farmhouse Renovation Project - Vermont Style
Recently work was completed on a heavy renovation of a central Vermont 1840's cape style farmhouse for a mutual friend and daughter. Her long term goal is to get off fossil fuels and live as close to net zero in the long term as possible while refreshing the historic "bones" of a vintage old Vermont Farmhouse in a budget minded yet values driven way.
We helped set to stage to transform a 175 year old building of average quality with relatively recent upgrades including....
Trend 4: User Experience and Branding - Cultivating Culture
The rise of user Experience and Branding
Recently, internal space branding and creating powerful user experience or (UX) has risen in importance as key design factors in planning and developing design strategies for office and workplace projects. User experience when linked with the data from the rise in beacon and sensor technologies embedded into furniture, floors, walls, ceilings, lighting and more, provide the possibility for new insights on the power of place to support work, workers, and the workplace. However, these new technologies must be met with...
Inside Out Home
A new small prototype green home we have in design. 1,300 sf +/- of single level living space, 2 bedrooms, flexible kitchen-dining-living area whose space extends to a generous terrace and pergola. The single living level recognizes the growing need for homes allowing older homeowners age in place, reducing the need to further downsize....;
ZigZag House 2
Interested in modern inspired small home living? Read on for more about ZigZag House 2, one of our many prototype green homes.
Why Best Place to Work Thinking?
Curious if Best Places to Work thinking might be valuable to your business or organization? See this post for more. Check back in the weeks ahead for more insights about Best Places to Work thinking and design.