A diverse architectural practice spanning over 50 years.
Industrial Design
Planning
Institutional
Residential
Commercial
Interiors
Experience
Private Practice 2002 - current
Lexington, Massachusetts
Camp Sizanani, Magaliesburg, South Africa. Responsible for programming, master planning, preliminary design and continuing coordination of the project with engineer and contractors, and support for fund raising efforts. Owner is Global Camps Africa, Reston, VA. Camp is a youth camp designed to teach and foster life skills centered around AIDS education and awareness.
Fit-up of quarters (2004) for Boston Children’s Chorus, Boston, MA.
Fit-up of quarters (2016) for Boston Children’s Chorus, Boston, MA.
Advisor to Boston Children’s Chorus for development of new headquarters facility, including programming and negotiations with developers of new projects.
Advisor to World Learning, Inc., Brattleboro, VT for the development of comprehensive campus master plan, selection of educational consultant, site master planner, architect, and construction manager for development of a 10 year plan
Conceptual design for CrossFit Headquarters, Scotts Valley, CA., in association with Wilson Butler Architects, Boston MA
Advisor to Meeting Waters YMCA, Bellows Falls, VT for selection of design team and construction manager for a new free standing YMCA in Brattleboro, VT
Advisor to Martha’s Vineyard Hospital for the selection of a construction manager.
Advisor to Retreat Farm LLC, Brattleboro, VT, for design process management, selection of site planner/landscape architect, architect, historic restoration consultant and construction manager for restoration and repositioning of an historic farm cluster.
Fit-up for The In-Sight Photography Project, Brattleboro, VT
Numerous private residences
Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, Inc. 1991-2001
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Suffolk University Law School, including interior furnishings and development of public space art program, Boston, MA
Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center, Southbridge, MA
28 Osborn Street Biotech Laboratory for TKT, Cambridge, MA
Master planning of North Campus for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Real Estate Department
University of Vermont Medical School, Burlington, VT: academic programming
Mt. Sinai Medical School, New York: academic programming
NECCO Biotech Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Charles River Plaza Biotech Laboratory, Boston, MA
Delphi Internet Interior Fit-up, Lowell, MA
Pratt Addition, New England Medical Center
Interiors New England Medical Center 1-C Addition, including interior furnishings and development of public space art program, Boston, MA
Holyoke Center Systems and Interior Renovations, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Cardiac Surgery Suite for St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA
Numerous evaluations of bio-tech buildings for purchase and renovation for Alexandria REIT, San Diego, CA
Mr. Adams was project manager for all listed projects.
The Architects Collaborative, Inc. 1980-1991
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Baghdad University Expansion (production manager): 33 academic buildings and 200 faculty townhouses as one continuous project
Copley Place Central Block shopping mall and four office towers (production manager), Boston, MA
New England Memorial Hospital, Stoneham, MA, various projects including: master plan, mechanical survey and master plan (supervision), birthing suite floor, clinical lab, and medical office building with numerous personalized office fit-ups.
Wentworth-by-the-Sea Redevelopment, New Castle, NH
Academic Building, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
University of Maryland Business School and School of Public Affairs, College Park, MD, in association with Keyes, Condon and Florance, Washington, DC
Numerous fit-up and master planning projects at St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA
Smith College Cooling Plant Expansion, Northampton, MA
Unless otherwise noted, Mr. Adams was project manager for all listed projects.
Adams Associates, Inc. 1971-1980
Deer Isle, Maine
Euclid National Distribution Center, Munroe, NC
Region Four Vocational Technical High School, Bangor, ME
Additions and Renovations to Elementary School, Castine, ME
Handicapped provisions to 12 Post Offices and Border Stations in Maine for GSA
Housing at Passamaquoddy Reservation, Indian Township, ME
Renovations and Addition to Sunshine Advent Christian Church, Deer Isle, ME
Advisor to Passamaquoddy Indian Nation on establishment of a “force account” construction management process, for which the firm won a HUD Biennial Award
Housing at Passamaquoddy Reservation, Eastport, ME
Housing at Penobscot Reservation, Indian Island, ME
Multifamily housing: Swan’s Island, Thomaston, Belfast, Saco, Orrington, Brewer, Mexico, Rockland, ME, Whitefield, NH, Lexington, MA . Many economic development projects at Indian Township, ME
Numerous private residences
Advisor Consultant to ACTA, Lisbon, Portugal, on systems construction for introduction of modular systems into the Common Market
Mr. Adams was principal-in-charge for all listed projects. In addition, Mr. Adams established and ran a construction company to build most of the local projects.
The Architects Collaborative, Inc. 1965-1971
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Providence Classical Vocational High School, Providence, RI
Marshfield High School, Marshfield, MA
Two Elementary Schools, Chelmsford, MA
Development of systems construction approach for public schools
Ward Seven Elementary School, Somerville, MA
Construction Material ‘X’, Spain and Greece
Nauset Regional High School, Orleans, MA
VPI Intramural Complex, Blacksburg, VA (design team)
Baptist Retirement Home, Columbus, IN (design team, and project manager for construction administration)
Unless otherwise noted, Mr. Adams was project manager and project architect for all listed projects
Awards
HUD Biennial Award for Development of Force Account Construction Management Process at Indian Township
St. Vincent Hospital Cardiac Suite
Suffolk University Law School
Pratt 8 Addition to New England Medical Center
Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center
New York Preservation Award, Myer residence, Rensselearville, NY.
References
John Moriarty, President, John Moriarty & Associates, Winchester, MA, 781-729-3900
Phil Lilienthal, President, Global Camps Africa, Reston, VA, 703-437-9363
Ilene Todd, Board President The In-Sight Photography Project, 802-254-8739
Brett Murphy, President, Murphy Construction Company, Newburyport, MA, 978-815-1042
Ingrid Moulton Nichols, Managing Director, Banwell Architects, Lebanon, NH, 603-448-3778
Ellen Watts, Principal, Architerra, Inc., Boston, MA, 617-778-2470
Military Service
U.S.Coast Guard, OCS, commissioned January 1961, active duty First Coast Guard District, Boston, MA. Current status: LT retired
Community Service
World Learning, Inc,. Brattleboro, VT: Board Member 2007-2016; Vice-Chair 2012-2015
Munroe Center for the Arts, Lexington MA: Board Member 1997-2008, Board Chair 2004-2008
Historic District Commission, Lexington, MA: Commissioner 2017-present.
Education
Harvard College, English History and Literature, A.B., cum laude, 1960
Officer Candidate School, U.S. Coast Guard, Commissioned 1961, LT (Ret)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B. Arch., AIA Medal ,1965
Current Registrations
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, Virginia, Maine, Illinois, Montana
NCARB Certificate