Currently on the boards, BLOOM's preliminary design for a mixed-use building, an expansion of an existing 1-story retail building to incorporate 8 new units of housing above. On a constrained lot with frontage on a major commercial street, the project will offer new transit-friendly housing in this popular neighborhood

ITHACA, NY BLOOM has been hired to design various commercial improvements to this classic former school building. Located Downtown, the building is a preservation success and a model of sustainability. DeWitt Mall in Ithaca is an adaptive reuse of the former Ithaca High School / DeWitt Junior High School, designed by William Henry Miller in 1914, a Cornell-associated architect, in a Tudor Revival style. Around 1971, when the building was declared obsolete and put up for sale,

BLOOM was selected via RFP to create a new 36,000 sf clubhouse in Great Brook Valley, a neighborhood within a federal housing development described by the client as a "child development desert." BLOOM arrived with extensive BGC experience from past projects in Lynn, Haverhill and Watertown, and when we encountered both the site and the project mission, we were immediately inspired, knowing this would be a great process and project. The new club will serve 500 kids and teens p

renderings of apartment amenities in Bloomington Indiana.

BLOOM's design for Little Children Schoolhouse in Brookline Village

This past year, BLOOM developed an overhaul to a Conceord estate property in conjunction with LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects and Lagasse Group Custom Builders. The program was a major landscape renovation, clearing out invasives and openign views to the riverfront. The pool and spa are to be replaced, and a new multi-purpose structure will anchor the composition. The building is arranged in two halves with a large void in the center, corresponding to teh pool's central ax

Another opportunity to contribute to the revitalization of downtown Lynn MA. Having completed the new home for Girls Inc. of Lynn, and an...

Boston Outdoor Preschool Network (BOPN) Roxbury

We are happy to be working with Berklee College of Music with renovations to their Commonwealth Ave Residence Halls. We first...

double walls, geothermal , passive solar, the house will both endure the harsh climate and use a minimum of energy

We are happy to be working again with the sisters at the Carmelite Monastery of Roxbury. Our previous collaboration produced a beautiful...

BLOOM Architecture's renovation to a Techbuilt House in Sudbury Massachusetts

Located on Beacon Street in Brookline, MA, this renovation of an abandoned former mixed use building, will bring the vacant building back to life with a small retail shop on the street level and 5 residential units above.

Harvard Square renovation

We are busy modernizing this hip-roofed ranch on a sloped site in Winchester, MA. The steep topography creates a two-story rear facade...

Hair Salon in Downtown Boston's Waterfront District

Stetson West is a modern concrete and glass structure built for Northeastern University in 1966. BLOOM was brought in to convert the main le

Construction has begun! BLOOM was tasked with refinishing the exterior of this Winchester Home from the 1950's, without impacting the interiors, to reinvent the house in a more modern style. Two front gable roofs are extended laterally to create a covered front porch and a deep overhang at the breezeway entrance. New windows and doors will replace the original models, and new low-maintenance siding will clad the walls, a combination of cement tongue & groove siding and ship-l

BLOOM is excited to announce our collaboration with the wonderful folks at the WBGC to expand the age groups that they serve, with a...

Swampscott MA is a gorgeous seaside town north of Boston, with striking enclaves of midcentury houses mixed in with the predominant...