William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc., in Boston, formed in 1983, has completed a large number of projects, ranging from complex urban buildings to college campuses, from performing arts facilities to affordable housing. Best known is the 1,200-seat Seiji Ozawa Hall for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, recently ranked as the 13th best concert hall in the world and among the top four halls in the United States in terms of acoustics (Leo Beranek, Concert Halls and Opera Houses, 2003). Recently completed projects include an overall campus Master Plan and architectural design of the West Campus mixed-use precinct at Northeastern University in Boston and the Music Center at Strathmore in Montgomery County, MD, the second home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

William Rawn Associates is committed to buildings participating in the civic or public realm — buildings in the city or buildings in important public landscape settings, such as Tanglewood. We believe that successful architecture, through the active engagement of its civic context, fosters the values of diversity, meritocracy, and participation that are fundamental to the American democratic experience.

William Rawn Associates is very proud of the design recognition it has received, including nine Honor Awards from the National American Institute of Architects in the last 14 years:

• 2007 Honor Award in Regional and Urban Design: The Carneros Inn;

• 2005 Honor Award in Regional and Urban Design: Northeastern University West Campus Master Plan;

• 2004 Honor Award in Architecture: Northeastern University West Campus Phase One;

• 2000 Honor Award in Regional and Urban Design: The Village of Park DuValle;

• 2000 Honor Award in Interior Architecture: Seiji Ozawa Concert Hall at Tanglewood;

• 1996 Honor Award in Urban Design: West Main Street Corridor Urban Design Plan for the City of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia;

• 1995 Honor Award in Architecture: Seiji Ozawa Concert Hall at Tanglewood;

• 1994 Honor Award in Architecture: Charlestown Navy Yard Rowhouses, an affordable housing development on Boston’s historic waterfront;

• 1993 AIA Urban Design Award of Excellence (forerunner to Honor Award): Back of the Hill Rowhouses, an affordable housing development on Mission Hill in Boston.

In the past eighteen years, William Rawn Associates has won over eighty national, city, state, and regional AIA Awards. Our projects have been featured in TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, and major national and international design publications.  Most recently, our College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University was awarded the Harleston Parker Medal for “the Most Beautiful Building in Boston” by the Boston Society of Architects.

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upper left - Tanglewood: © Steve Rosenthal
upper right - Northeastern: © Steve Rosenthal
lower left -Loews Boston Hotel
lower right - Babson: © Steve Rosenthal

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Tanglewood: © Paul Warchol
Babson: © Steve Rosenthal
Northeastern: © Steve Rosenthal

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