Profile
R2ARC (R2 = Rick Reeder) is a Winchester Massachusetts architecture, planning and product design practice, specializing in high quality institutional, civic, commercial and residential projects, including new work, additions and renovations.
Each project finds its final design through analysis of client requirements, cultural context, budgets, environmental factors, site parameters and the design and technical skills that have been nurtured through long professional practice.
From site selection and master planning to ecological house designs in Ecuador to individual residences to buildings of all sizes and highly refined museum exhibitions, we enjoy a wide variety of project types. Some work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and we have been published on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, and in magazines.
3-D conceptualization: Design work is drawn three-dimensionally in order to fully understand all aspects of the project and relationships to the surrounding environment, and to enhance client understanding of the proposed design.
Typologies, with select examples:
Cultural facilities: Wang Center* (Citi Performing Arts Center) and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Kuwait Scientific Center**, Cultural Center, Observation Tower|Museum, both projects in Taichung City, Taiwan (competitions).
Office buildings: 400 Unicorn Office Park* in Woburn, buildings 1, 2 and 3 at Westborough Office Park*; One Lincoln Street*, Boston, MA; Raytheon Corporate Headquarters Conference Center*, Lexington, MA.
Historic buildings: Wang Center: Wang Center*, Museum of Fine Arts*, Paul Rudolph-133 Federal*, Customhouse* in Boston MA; Peabody Hill Condominiums*, Newton MA; Kennedy School, Charlestown, MA; 6|8 Francis Circuit Condominiums, Winchester, MA; Arvo Pärt Music Village, Rakvere Estonia (competition).
Residential: HRCA senior housing*, Randolph, MA; 1320 Lakeshore Drive* (tower project), Chicago, IL; Marriott timeshare*: conversion of Custom House Tower*, Boston, MA; The Grandview condominiums*, Boston, MA; Peabody Hill Condominiums*, Newton, MA; Galapagos Eco-Community, Santa Cruz Island; Milford, Needham, and Longmeadow MA private residences; Danvers MA, Harpers Ferry WV and Annapolis MD waterside residences; and a garden community in Johnstown PA.
Master planning: Boston University Campus Development Plan*, Boston; MA; Unicorn Office Park*, Woburn, MA; Westborough Office Park*, Westborough, MA; The Evergreens, Johnstown, PA.
Building repositioning (core/lobby/entrance/plaza/sidewalk redesign): 265 Franklin Street*, 470 Atlantic Avenue and 100 Federal Street in Boston; 100 Wall Street in New York City.
Perimeter and interior security design: 100 Federal Street* for Fleet Bank, One Lincoln Street*, for State Street Bank and the Grand Hyatt in Denver. Selective force protection designs licensed to Landscape Forms for mass production.
Interior design (building core, executive suites): First Commodity Corp* (53 State Street), T.H. Lee Co.* (75 State Street), and Goulston and Storrs*, in Boston, MA; Merrill Lynch* in Greenwich CT.
Sustainability and green roof design: LEED AP certification, 133 Federal Street Plaza and fountain*, and Raytheon Corporate Headquarters Conference Center*, 100 Federal Street plaza and fountain*, Venturi Leaf House (project), Galapagos Eco-Community (project), Taichung Cultural Center, Taichung Taiwan (project).
Plaza, rooftop and garden design: 100 Federal Street*, 133 Federal Street* and 265 Franklin Street*, Boston, MA; 100 Wall Street*, New York City, Fairmont Copley Plaza**, Boston, MA.
Entrance and entrance canopy design: 265 Franklin Street*, 470 Atlantic Avenue*, Raytheon Headquarters* and The Grandview*, all in the Boston area; 100 Wall Street*, New York City.
*at Jung|Brannen
**at Cambridge Seven