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ACTWO were recent winners of an IIDA New England 2020 award, in the Office Spaces under 20,000 square feet category, for our expansion of the Kayak offices in Cambridge.

Check out the project:   Kayak Expansion

Clark University recently hosted the grand opening of the The Colin-Flug Graduate Study Wing.  To learn more about the program and its mission, read Clark’s story here.

As Kayak continues to grow, ACTWO continues to create new and exciting spaces for them to grow into.  In addition to space for more employee work stations and meeting rooms, the latest expansion was centered around a social hub and new vertical connections.  Keep an eye out for the full photo set, coming soon!

ACTWO recently topped the list of best Office Architects in the city, from Boston Architects, an architecture blog dedicated to chronicling the current state of design in Boston.  To see more of the list and how we stack up, visit them here.

The new Intarcia offices in the Boston Seaport District have been garnering plenty of attention lately.  The pharmaceutical offices have been shared by the Boston Business Journal and in StructureTone’s newest video profile.  The office was also featured in the latest Nulite catalog.

For more images and info on the offices, visit the 13th Floor and the 2nd Floor

ACTWO was honored to receive an AIA New England Citation Award for the recently completed RWU Sailing Center in Bristol Rhode Island.

The awards were presented to 2016’s winners by AIA Maine at the Customs House in Portland, ME.  Click here to learn more about the winning project.

The freshly opened Kayak.com office in Cambridge was profiled in this morning’s Boston Globe.  Read the article HERE

Ceilings don’t have to be boring.

ACTWO architects continues to grow, as the french magazine Architecture Bois published the Lincoln Residence in their special 10 year anniversary, celebrating some of their favorite projects published over the last ten years.

The new addition to the Fort Point in Boston, BLADE, is up and running.  They held a grand Launch Event last Friday to celebrate, and the only thing that looked better than the guest list was the space itself.  While the space has been in use for daily office activities for couple weeks, this was the first opportunity for the nightclub setting to be put to its full use, and it did not disappoint.

This guy had a good time.

photo: Phil G Oliver

photo: Phil G Oliver

photo: Bill Warner

photo: Phil G Oliver

photo: Bill Warner

photo: Bill Warner

photo: Bill Warner

photo: Bill Warner

photo: Phil G Oliver

photo: Bill Warner

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