Signer Harris Architects, Barr & Barr Builders, and St. Ann’s Home and School were honored by the Association of General Contractors for the mixed-use Adolescent Center at St. Ann’s Home and School in Methuen, MA. The project received a Performance Award as part of the AGC Build New England Awards program, which recognizes outstanding project teams whose collaborative efforts bring complex projects to a successful conclusion.
Signer Harris Architects' design work and theories have been included in the following publications:
- SHA’s energy-independent West Basin House is featured in the book U.S. Collection: Architecture, by Michelle Galindo.
- Architecture, Architectural Record, Design Times, Educational Facility Planner, Home, Metropolis, R&D, Restaurants & Institutions and Santa Fean magazines, as well as in the Boston Business Journal.
- SHA's 5,000 sf energy independent (off-the-grid) house has been featured in Santa Fean magazine as part of a story on the Galisteo Basin project for sustainable, smart development.
- SHA's Adolescent Center for St. Ann's Home and School is the focus of an article on successful Integrated Project Delivery published in Educational Facility Planner magazine.
- The firm's Cafeteria project for State Street Corporation is featured in the hardcover book Cafes and Bistros, by Martin M. Pegler.
- The firm's approach to creating effective contracts is quoted in Architectural Record; further, Bill Harris, Principal, presented a program on the effective financial management of projects and firms at the AIA National Convention.
- The firm won the prestigious Build Massachusetts Performance Award, presented by the Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts to an Architect-Owner-Contractor team for exceptionalcollaboration. The award is shared with Payton Construction and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care for their Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention.
- The firm's pioneering design work at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with Maryann Thompson Architects andElkus/ Manfredi, was featured in R&D and Metropolis magazines.
