Manchester, MA Architects and Building Designers

Located in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, our firm has provided significant residential architecture for over 125 years. Our work is inspired by architectural tradition and a desire to create living spaces which interact harmoniously with the natural world. Every project is as individual as each client and setting and provides comfortable, contemporary living in whatever style desired. Stephen Roberts Holt After graduating from The Yale School of Architecture, Stephen Holt headed the preservation department of the firm that restored Colonial Williamsburg. With his years of education and experience he continues the architectural traditions established by his predecessors. He has preserved and renovated many of the grand Shingle Style cottages originally built by his family in Manchester-by-the-Sea. He designs clubs, private schools and many new award-winning residences throughout New England.

Virtually Home. SKA is a locally owned Cambridge Architecture Firm dedicated to helping clients create spaces that will last a lifetime. We focus on New Construction, Renovations, and Additions. We utilize virtual reality to effectively communicate our ideas with our clients. Our mission is to embrace our clients’ ideas and deliver designs that are beautiful, pragmatic and sensitive to their environment. We work on Projects ranging from Multimillion dollar Estates to Compost Bins, Garages, Decks, Etc.

John P. Margolis, AIA is Essex County's most notable architect. John has spent the last 20 years shaping the affluent Gold Coast north of Boston. There he designed many varied residential designs - predominantly in the traditional vernacular, typical of the grand estates built over a century earlier. His passion for classical and traditional architecture led him to the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) where he served as New England Chapter President for five consecutive years. In 2014, John joined Evens Architects as a Studio Director for the KAA Design Group located in Los Angeles, California. Recently, John joined Becker Henson Niksto Architects in Santa Barbara in February, 2019. John and the firm offer superlative residential architecture design services on both coastlines. Specializing in new homes, additions, and renovations, the firm's varied work is thoughtfully grounded in traditional and regional precedents. Although their designs often marry classically proportioned designs to the individual needs of each client, John and his team pursue solutions that unify the building to the land. The diverse portfolio of collaborations realize timeless, enduring, and sustainable homes for generations to come. Featured in numerous magazines both domestically and abroad, John's passion and charge is to integrate the client’s personal vision into an enduring villa-garden concept unifying architecture, interiors and landscape design.

Architectural design in Ipswich, serving the North Shore of Massachusetts, and locations throughout New England. Services include new custom homes, historically-sensitive rehabs, additions, interior design and space planning. We offer a unique blend of technical and architectural know-how and use our firsthand knowledge of the construction process to guide our designs.

DMS is a full service architectural & interior design firm that specializes in producing thoughtfully designed renovation and addition projects, custom homes and multifamily housing projects. We have experience with all phases of residential projects both large and small. Projects range from finely detailed residential renovations, to historic renovations to aging-in-place renovations to well-planned multifamily housing projects. DMS Architectural Design Services include: renovations, additions, in-law apartments, aging-in-place renovations, waterfront properties and custom homes. DMS Interior Design Services include: space planning, cabinetry, trim, fabrics selection, materials selection, colors selection, furniture & furnishings, and window treatments.

Your home is an extension of who you are. It reflects your personality and your dreams, becoming your special corner of the world. This is the lens through which we view each of our projects. We know we’re not just designing buildings, we’re creating the spaces where life happens. We are an Award Winning full service architecture firm providing custom architecture and interior design in the Greater Boston area and all of New England. In fifteen years of working with a diverse collection of clients in a wide variety of communities, we have come to deeply understand the trans-formative power of a well-designed space. Our design process is driven by your needs and ideas and powered by our artistic expertise.

Whether new construction, historic restoration, or renovation/adaptive reuse, Design Associates’ approach frees each client and project from dogmatic formulas and lets architectural design excellence thrive. Practical, workable, and buildable alternatives are set forth in response to client input at every step of project development. Design Associates’ guidance and understanding lead to the best use solutions. Long considered the preeminent architectural firm on Nantucket Island, Design Associates began exporting its refined expertise throughout New England with the establishment of the firm’s second office in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1983. Clients include private real estate owners and developers, municipalities and institutions who seek out Design Associates both for its demonstrated sensitivity to New England’s historic fabric and this energetic team’s ability to create new buildings worthy of future preservation. Hundreds of well-designed, custom single-family homes, hotels, inns, and country clubs, restaurants, recreational facilities, day-care centers, and many other institutional, commercial, and mixed-use projects are the firm’s distinctive, classic New England style--a signature which deftly balances history, architecture, and modern context. In recognition of Design Associates’ creativity and technical competency, since 1980 the firm has provided architectural services and consulting for “This Old House”, a nationally syndicated production of WGBH-TV/Boston. The firm’s work has also been published in Historic Preservation, Cape Cod Home and Garden, Cape Cod Life, House and Garden, House Beautiful, Boston Magazine, Home, Traditional Home, Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, Nantucket Journal, This Old House Magazine and included in books such as The Timber Frame House, Nantucket Gardens & Houses, This Old House Kitchens, This Old House Bathrooms and Shingle Style Houses, Past and Present.

Fine Residential Architecture

Naturally Modern Homes. Best of Houzz 2018 for both Design and Service, for five years running. We are a residential architect focusing on homes that relate beautifully to their surroundings, with sculpted lines and timeless materials. We bring Nature into each of our houses through expansive south-facing windows with axial views to draw the eye to the outside. Our modern houses are designed to minimize their environmental footprint, with innovative materials and techniques for energy and water conservation. The success of our projects depends on a strong relationship with our clients and teamwork with the builders. We are good listeners, understanding our clients' intentions so that we can translate their goals into a design tailored to them. Each project is sculpted to the client's way of living or working, inspiring a range of styles from the most sophisticated modern to beautifully crafted traditional designs, often with inventive cross-overs. Our hand-rendered drawings, models and computer simulations work together to ensure that our clients understand how a concept will work and accurately convey the project's look and feel when built.

The focus for our residential team is YOU, our client & partner in the design process. We truly enjoy collaborating with our clients. We pride ourselves in having an open style of working because we believe that this collaborative style is critical to a successful outcome for your project. We believe architecture has to be a natural and simple extension of what is already there, yet it needs to improve the overall sense of any location. We apply our creativity with the newest technologies and building materials to blend the new and the old in a unique and artful manner. Working directly with an OL+ partner on projects ranging anywhere from master planning, to additions, to new design & build projects, our clients tell us that our innovative approach helps them realize their vision, plus so much more than they had ever imagined!

Innovative design embracing energy, environment, and lifestyle. ZeroEnergy Design creates innovative & environmentally sensible homes and buildings. The team of architecture, mechanical design, and business professionals takes a calculated, multidisciplinary approach to modern green design and sustainability. The consistent result is a beautiful, high-performance home or building that holistically matches the owner’s lifestyle, aesthetic desires, and environmental ideologies. We believe that great design should both elicit an emotional response and use less energy. Our designs are inspired by clients and the surrounding landscape, resulting in an architecture that is uniquely informed by both subject and place. We are also committed to designing homes that use 50% less energy than building code requires, in pursuit of energy independence. Our suite of services is unmatched and includes full architectural design, photorealistic renderings through the design process, engineering of the mechanical systems, sustainability consulting, energy modeling with cost analysis, and green certifications such as LEED for Homes, Passive House, Living Building Challenge, and others. Call us today to discuss your project.

At Foley Fiore Architecture, every project we take on, we strive to create an environment that will enrich the spirit. At the center of each project is the client. We value the process of getting to know people, understanding how they live, and how they work. Our success lies in tailoring a built environment that serves our client's needs, in an architecturally innovative manner.

Founded in 1990, Moskow Linn Architects is an award-winning, Boston-based architecture and design firm led by Robert Linn, AIA, and Keith Moskow, FAIA. MLA's wide-ranging portfolio, including residential projects, offices, and schools, is rooted in the details of the building process and New England craftsmanship. We collaborate closely with our clients, together examining project parameters and developing a dialogue to achieve architectural solutions that balance pleasure, work, and functionality. Through focused attention to detail we express how building components create an articulate whole. This approach includes the use of vernacular forms, materials, and tectonics to create contextual, contemporary architecture that engages its site and reveals its best attributes. The careful consideration of how one moves through a space and the resulting sensory engagement with a structure is also a fundamental driver of our design work, as is a commitment to creating forward-looking energy efficient structures. For every project we imagine a narrative that grounds our work with a timeless quality meant to last for generations. MLA has a longstanding tradition of expanding the boundaries of conventional architecture practice through theoretical interventions, small-scale investigations, and publications. These explorations allow us to approach design with fresh perspectives and push us to test the limits of form, process, and materials.

*Project Inquiries* Please contact us at 617-266-1710 or info@patrickahearn.com Patrick Ahearn FAIA, specializes in historically motivated architecture and interior design. Over the past 43+ years, his volume of finely crafted and detailed residential work spans a multitude of classic styles of architecture from City Town Houses to Island Homes. With offices in both the Historic Back Bay neighborhood of Boston and on the island of Martha's Vineyard, these environments provide a rich and fertile background for the creation of classical timeless architecture, appropriate and in scale to each locale. While the firm is renowned for its traditional New England vernacular architectural style, Patrick is licensed in over 20 U.S. states and has completed a wide range of projects nationally and internationally. The firm's work covers a broad spectrum of projects including master planning, new construction, historic renovation and restoration. To each of his projects, Mr. Ahearn and his team of architects and designers bring a highly educated and schooled knowledge of classic architecture coupled with a keen sense of how people live today, which in turn produces homes that are timeless and responsive to the needs of today's lifestyles.

At Oak Hill Architects, we consider each project as a unique opportunity to translate our clients' vision into reality. Our work ranges in style from traditional to contemporary, and in scope, from additions and renovations to new construction. What remains constant is our attention to detail and our sensitivity to proportions, light, and the quality of spaces. By listening carefully to our clients and working closely with them through all phases of the design and construction process, we develop a comprehensive scope of work that is in line with their goals and priorities. We take a consistently thoughtful and collaborative approach to creating designs that reflect the client's lifestyles and aesthetics. These values are at the core of our practice.