Intern Duties

Every Friday afternoon here at Reed Hilderbrand, the intern has to go get beer for the office to enjoy in their last couple hours together for the week. Needless to say, there have been quite a few empty bottles to accumulate in the basement. Lucky for me, in Massachusetts you can get 5 cents (why is there not a cents symbol on the keyboard... maybe next to the $ sign) for beer bottles returned to the store.

So, today I gathered up all the bottles and cashed them in for a whopping $8.10. That's 162 bottles in my trunk:

BSLA Awards Submission

For the first couple weeks at Reed Hilderbrand, I have worked on the submission of three projects for annual awards from the BSLA. We could not submit for ASLA Awards this year because Doug Reed (LSU grad) is on the jury. Here are some of the graphics that I made for the award submittals, along with some of the photographs that we submitted.

The Clark Art Institute:

Diagram of plantings used to blend the site into the forest/meadow landscape.

Photograph of the site (bottom of pic), which was cleared in a way to fit in to the pattern of forests and meadows in the hills of western Mass.

Caplan residence:

This is sort of a color-by-elevation done in Vectorworks showing the topography of the site, along with a model (that I did not do) at the same scale.

Existing and proposed site plans created in Vectorworks.

Photograph of site, which is the home of an art collector in Baltimore, MD. You can kind of see the concrete risers in the grass, which I'm finding out is a staple of any Reed Hilderbrand design.

1740 Miles Later...

So me and Jacie went for a little drive across this great nation of ours. 5 days, 4 nights, and over 1700 miles later, we reached Boston Mass. What we saw along the way:

Virginia countryside.

Ohh, that Maya Lin.

Washington Monument.

View from the top of the Washington Monument.

The Obama household, complete with Chinese protestors.

Bryant Park.

Times Square.

Boston skyline from Big Dig greenway.

Project at the GSD. You'd think they would know their ROYGBIV.

View from bridge over Charles River down the street from my house, just south of Harvard.

The home of the infamous egg-throwers after the party at the Reed-Hilderbrand office.