New England Design... Redefined
The Isles of Shoals are a small group of islands, approximately 6 miles off the coast of New England, straddling the borders of New Hampshire and Maine. Smuttynose, the 3rd largest of these islands, has a colorful history. Known as the site for Blackbeard’s honeymoon and a shipwreck of the Spanish ship Sagunto in 1813,…Read More
As TMS Architects has such an interest in historic preservation , we were particularly interested in learning about a new feature exhibition at Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH which opened May 1 and will run through October 31, 2012. Entitled Threads: Stories of Fashion at Strawbery Banke, 1740-2012, the exhibit provides a rare glimpse into…Read More
Our friends at Regeneration Park have done it again…found another way to re-purpose a building material with spectacular results! This time, a 160 year old live oak that had been stored in a Massachusetts pond was fashioned into a massive round table for Demeters Steakhouse. The craftsman-sculptor-artist, Les Haskell of Eliot, Maine, and his table…Read More
TMS Architects volunteers, Retta Fitch, Gillian Baresich, Jason Bailey, Tim Giguere and Nicole Martineau, have spent recent after-school afternoons at a local elementary school assisting students with a nationally-recognized program called “Box City”. In this innovative curriculum, students learn how to plan and build a city – using donated boxes. With the help of skilled volunteers,…Read More
Every once in a while, something comes to our attention that really resonates. TMS Architects just received a newsletter from a firm called “repurposedMATERIALS “, located in Denver, Co. that prompted further investigation. According to their website, “repurposed MATERIALS is a unique business in the sustainability industry. While many green businesses focus on the recycling…Read More
Each year the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) releases their picks for the hot building and design trends of the year. The trends are gleaned from the International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Florida and represent trends that are being seen by architects and builders across the country. Here are the strongest trends for 2012…Read More
TMS Architects recently completed a project for Bottomline Technologies in their headquarters located at Pease Tradeport, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Bottomline is a world leader in automating and managing processes involving payments, invoicing, global cash management, supply chain financing and transactional documents. To meet the growing demand for their services and products, Bottomline chose to…Read More
Called a form of “liquid architecture”, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. has mounted an enormous video piece on the outside of the 725- foot facade of the cylindrical museum. Entitled SONG 1, the display was created by Doug Aitkin and is the “first-ever work of 360-degree convex-screen cinema” of this magnitude. According to an …Read More
The message below is from our friend, Lynne Monroe. TMS was privileged to work with the folks at Whole Life Health Care help them adapt the former Louis deRochemont home into their medical offices. The youtube link is to one of Louis’s short films about Exeter in the 1940’s. It is worth watching if you…Read More
