New England Design... Redefined
Shannon Alther, TMS Architects Principal and AIANH ‘s President-Elect, was on hand January 11th at the Bedford Village Inn to accept an AIA Award of Excellence for his work on Regeneration Park in Portsmouth, NH. A former abandoned auto dealership, the building was re-used and re-purposed into a a state-of-the art, near net-zero office, retail…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
One of TMS’s more interesting projects in 2011 was the revitalization of an old automobile dealership into a state-of-the-art, near net-zero energy office, retail and restaurant building now known as Regeneration Park. We recently showed you photographs of the steak house, Demeters, and will now move you upstairs to the office spaces. Many of the…Read More
One of TMS Architect’s projects, Regeneration Park, was recently named one of fourteen winners in the 2011 Building New Hampshire Awards announced at an awards breakfast held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on November 2, 2011. According to Kathy Poggi , a producer of the awards program and a principal in Seacoast Ink, “The winning entries…Read More
Regeneration Park was the subject of an earlier blog post – slated to be one of Portsmouth’s first Zero Energy Building (ZEB) that strives to consume zero net energy and emit zero net carbon. TMS Architects has been involved in the transformation of this building from the beginning and since a move-in date is getting…Read More
The Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association (NNECAPA) is holding their annual conference in Portsmouth, NH this year at the new Portsmouth Harbor Events Conference Center on October 7th & 8th. Bringing together more than 150 planners from the New England states, the conference’s theme is Sustainable New England. This year’s conference…Read More
Portsmouth, New Hampshire will soon have its first Zero Energy Building (ZEB), Regeneration Park, a commercial building whose goal is to consume zero net energy and emit zero net carbon. This ambitious project has been conceived by Andrew Kellar, founder and owner of Simply Green Biofuels, and when completed, will be an eco-friendly home to…Read More
