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‘Heliconia’: Helicon Goes Home to Mid-Century Modern
Maybe the one upside of the pandemic is the time it has provided all of us. In our case, it gave us the opportunity to dive into creative areas that were long demoted to lower on our list. We dusted ...
Feb 2021
It’s High Time to Look at Dispensary Design
Despite the legalization of recreational marijuana in Massachusetts in 2016 (86% in favor), the subsequent five years have seen precious few recreational dispensaries open up in metro Boston. The only question remains, when will we see a wave of grand ...
Sep 2020
Should the Next-Phase Office be Covid-Proof or Remote-Evolved?
The wreckage of the hospitality and entertainment real estate sector has been evident since the start of the COVID pandemic, but the effect on the commercial office space market is yet to be seen. Recently, the metro Boston office sublet ...
May 2020
The New Near-Term
COVID-19 Re-occupancy and Office Adaption
Along with all the startling changes brought by the pandemic, re-occupying the office with defensive measures is now among them as authorities try and devise and deploy best practices. From what we can tell – sorting through peer posts, virtual ...
May 2017
Bringing Home to Work: New Amenities Projects Make the Workplace Livable
The last decade has seen big changes in interior office design. New ideas about open, shared office space – and how it can be more reflective of how teams work and create – have resulted in radically different designs from ...
Jan 2017
The Architecture of Indoor Agriculture
2016 saw the completion of Helicon’s design and construction drawings for Mass Medi-Spa’s medical marijuana grow facility and dispensary in Norwell, Massachusetts. Construction is scheduled for spring 2017, with the company opening operations later in the year. Helicon began preliminary ...
Aug 2016
Thirty-Five Years of Design:
Building Everything from Shops to Dot-coms
Over the years, in between the shops and dot-coms, there have been a bunch of cousins and newcomers. We’ve built houses, furniture showrooms, and doctors’ offices...
