Goody Clancy Firm News
Dennis Swinford Leads Session at SCUP Conference
Goody Clancy’s Higher Education Planning Practice Leader Dennis Swinford led a session, along with University of Massachusetts Amherst Senior Campus Planner Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, at this year’s Society for College and University Planning Conference in Washington, D.C. Dennis and Ludmilla’s session, “Integrating Sustainability Planning with Master Planning,” outlined concrete steps for comprehensive physical planning that uses […]
Jean Carroon Weighs in on Skyscraper Shadow Debate in New York Times
Learn more about the debate over Boston skyscrapers and the effects of their sweeping shadows in today’s New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/boston-development-shadow-building-boom.html?mcubz=0&_r=0 Goody Clancy’s Principal of Design, Preservation, and Sustainability–Jean Carroon–is quoted in the article: “a booming economy is always hard on heritage and heritage values.” An interesting read featuring an awesome time-lapse video of […]
The National Building Museum’s New Exhibition features work by Goody Clancy | HDR at St. Elizabeths
In Washington, D.C., the National Building Museum’s new exhibit, titled “Architecture of an Asylum: St. Elizabeths, 1852-2017,” features the work of a Goody Clancy | HRD joint venture as it illuminates the history of the former psychiatric hospital. Goody Clancy is the overall project manager for the 176-acre project which repurposes the site’s historically significant […]
Jean Carroon questions Net Zero in Building Energy Magazine
In the latest issue of Building Energy, the magazine of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), Goody Clancy principal Jean Carroon questions the benefits of focusing on Net Zero Energy (NZE) as a goal for individual buildings. Questions about the sustainability of energy storage, efficiency of small-scale power generation, (perhaps mistaken) focus on end-use energy, and […]
Dennis Swinford ASLA Joins Goody Clancy as Practice Leader for Higher Education Planning
February 14, 2017 – (Boston) – Award-winning architecture, planning, and preservation firm Goody Clancy announced today that Dennis Swinford will be leveraging his deep expertise in the planning and implementation of projects at colleges and universities as the firm’s new Higher Education Planning Practice Leader. Most recently, Swinford was Director of the Office of Campus […]
Groundbreaking at UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management
Collaborating for the first time, Goody Clancy and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) developed the design for UMass Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management Business Innovation Hub. A recent groundbreaking ceremony was held at the project site, where construction is scheduled to be complete in September 2018. The 70,000 SF addition will elevate not only the student experience, but […]
Ben Carlson Talks Barnum TOD Strategies at NEDA Conference
Bridgeport, CT, is home to many economic and community assets, as well as a fair amount of vacant industrial land. Our TOD planning effort for the area around the planned Barnum Station aims to revive this land, leveraging newfound public access the train station will provide. At this week’s Northeastern Economic Developers Association’s 60th Annual […]
Virtual Tour of the New Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center for Executive Education
Take a look at Goody Clancy Associate Principal (and notoriously snappy dresser!) Victor Ortale in this video from Harvard Business School. Standing from the vantage point of the Gathering Stair, Victor offers some firsthand insights into the design process for the new Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Executive Education Center. The video provides a virtual tour […]
Preservation Team Receives GSA 2016 Design Award for Conrad B. Duberstein Courthouse (Brooklyn, NY)
At 3 PM today the General Services Administration (GSA) hosts its Design Awards Ceremony for 2016. We are honored to receive a Design Award for our extensive architectural preservation work on the exterior of the Conrad B. Duberstein U.S. Bankruptcy Courthouse. Our interventions included the restoration of roughly 75,000 SF of 1930s-era terra-cotta and granite […]
Integrated Sciences Complex at UMass Boston Earns LEED Gold Certification
We learned earlier today from the USGBC that our design for the Integrated Sciences Complex at UMass Boston has struck gold! The coalescence of many design decisions in the name of sustainability has earned the 225,000 GSF building LEED Gold Certification. A few of its many green features include high-performance glazing, a complete “cool roof” […]