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As a Boston architect, Anderson Porter Design delivers thoughtful, regionally informed architecture across the city, Greater Boston, and surrounding Massachusetts communities.

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Architecture Rooted in Place, Purpose, and Expertise

As a trusted Boston architecture firm, we bring decades of experience designing multifamily housing, workplace environments, senior living communities, and nationally recognized cannabis facilities. Our projects range from residential and institutional to public, retail, and urban design, each shaped to meet the unique needs of the people who use them.

Notable projects include the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and MIT’s Brain and Cognitive Sciences Building, illustrating our expertise with complex, high-profile work. By combining regional knowledge with experience across diverse project types, we create spaces that feel connected, functional, and intentionally designed for the people who use them.

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Featured Boston Projects

Dental examination chairs in a brightly lit clinic room with a black and white geometric patterned wall, wooden cabinets, and cartoon-like wall decals of running figures.

Cambridge Children’s Dentistry

Cambridge Children’s Dentistry engaged us to renovate their Cambridge, Massachusetts, office with a design that meets dental operational needs while creating a child-friendly environment that reduces anxiety for young patients.

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Interior of a modern office reception area with a blue wall featuring the word 'Mayflower' and a large 'M' logo on the wall. There are four check-in kiosks behind a metal counter, pendant lights hanging from the ceiling, and a minimalist design overall.
A multi-story modern building with retail space on the ground floor, several balconies, and large street-facing windows, situated in an urban area with parked cars and streetlights.

Mayflower Medicinal

The first flagship dispensary for Mayflower Medicinals in Boston required strategic space planning and multiple design iterations to overcome limited space while meeting strict DPH guidelines, security requirements, and accommodating six budtenders.

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Mission hill flats

Mission Hill Flats (MHF) is leading Boston’s urban-green movement with its first Mixed-Use Passive House Certified Building. MHF’s goal is to be the greenest building in Boston, and help pave the way for more of its kind.

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OUR DESIGN Services

  • This foundational phase runs in parallel across multiple teams. Due Diligence involves site and regulatory research by the architect and customer consultants, while Programming defines the project’s goals and operational needs. The result is a clear understanding of site constraints and a preliminary layout that aligns with your business model.

  • Schematic Design translates the program into initial architectural concepts. We collaborate with engineers and consultants to develop layout options, evaluate code compliance, and prepare documents for early pricing and permit applications.

  • In this phase, the design is refined in greater detail. Material selections, fixture schedules, and engineering systems are coordinated. The focus is on integrating all disciplines to ensure constructability and cost accuracy.

  • Construction Documents finalize all design decisions into detailed drawings and specifications ready for bidding, permitting, and construction. Final pricing packages are produced, and documents are submitted for approvals.

  • During construction, the architect provides support to ensure the project is built per design. This includes responding to contractor questions, reviewing submittals, observing progress, and resolving issues in real-time.

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