From Concept to Ribbon-Cutting

Architectural Services

A successful building project doesn’t end with a finished structure. The project is only a success if the final product:

Provides the right look, spaces, and functionalities for its role
Adds to the aesthetic appeal of its site and setting
Improves the occupant’s efficiency and decreases their environmental impact

At BTBB, we commit to providing turnkey architectural services focused on one specific goal: ensuring success for our clients.

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Where Form and Function Meet

Architecture lives and breathes at the balance point between art and functionality, and we understand that the architect’s role is to create usable beauty.

For your project to be successful, it has to inspire, charm, invite, and uplift the people who work, play, live, worship, or just spend time in your space.

BTBB’s talented architects also recognize that a stunning design isn’t enough – we provide stunning designs that are:

Constructable
Efficient
Durable

A row of modern suburban houses with brick columns, spacious porches, and manicured lawns beneath a bright blue sunny sky.

Cozy café with green walls, brown leather banquettes, round white tables, orange chairs, wall shelves of books and abstract art.

A recording studio featuring large mixing consoles, chairs, audio gear, wood panels, a patterned curtain, and a brown couch.

A two-story red brick building with arched windows and a cone-shaped turret displaying a sign that reads THE HENRY. The building sits on a street corner with a traffic light and street signs nearby.

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A person with a watch sketches on yellow graph paper over technical blueprints, using a black pen and ruler, drawings on the desk.

Consistency Is Key

The BTBB team members you work with during the development of your building program are the same ones who will celebrate with you at your ribbon-cutting.

The old saying about how too many cooks spoil the soup may be dated, but it’s not wrong. Every new person on a project increases the chances of miscommunication or misunderstanding and an associated delay.

Our organization is small, and our clients enjoy a single, consistent team that’s with them throughout the entire process. We’re not handing you off to different departments as your project moves through the timeline – your BTBB architect is your single point of contact and your single source of information across the project lifespan.

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Our Design Philosophy: Listening to Our Clients

Our approach to every project is reflected in our design philosophy: We listen to our clients. Only when we do an exceptional job of listening can we create a design that answers our clients’ specific needs.

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The BTBB Experience: Hands-On Architecture Services

To many, the architect’s job starts with a blank CAD file and ends when the contract plans are filed. Not to us. Our team is hands-on with your project through the entire process. Our goal isn’t a completed building or a finished renovation. It’s seeing you building success in your new space.

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No matter how developed your idea is, our first step is always to listen. We call it “problem seeking” – engaging in a deep and open conversation with you to discover what specific problems need to be addressed between now and the completion of your successful project.

What’s Problem Seeking?

Clarifying project goals and managing expectations
Evaluating sites or assessing a selected site or structure’s suitability
Considering your project’s aesthetic and environmental impact on its surroundings
Identifying the specific building features required by your intended use
Predicting potential permitting, approval, or construction challenges

Once we have a solid understanding of what you want your project to accomplish, we’ll begin developing your building program – the detailed specifications, features, functionalities, and other information that will inform the entire design and construction phases.

What’s In a Building Program?

Specific space requirements
Unique or specific design features
Materials requirements
Community considerations
Engineering requirements
Environmental concerns
Any other key elements, spaces, aesthetics, or other expectations for the completed project.

Our designs focus on creating a timeless sense of appeal, avoiding the trap of integrating fads and fashions that can quickly date a project. We also focus on providing designs with:

Constructability

A gorgeous design doesn’t work if it can’t be built. We have no interest in drawing flights of fancy that no contractor will want to touch. We only design projects that will work with the materials and techniques that fit into your budget and program.

Efficiency

With a LEED-certified company principal and decades of experience, we know how to create buildings that minimize your property’s impact on the environment. From sustainable construction practices to a focus on high-efficiency design, we work to make both construction and continued occupancy less ecologically impactful.

Durability

Buildings – especially our treasured historical buildings – should never be disposable. We look for ways to implement new materials and use time-tested design features to bake durability into your project from the beginning, reducing your maintenance overhead and total cost of occupancy.

Your contract drawings aren’t the end of our involvement in your project. BTBB’s team also provides project and construction administration services, lending our expertise and deep knowledge base to the entire construction process.

Construction Delivery Methods

Managing Projects with Any Delivery Method

BTBB has experience managing projects through a variety of different delivery methods, depending on the nature of the project:

Traditional Delivery (Design-Bid-Build)
Design-Build
Construction Management at Risk (CMAR)

No matter which method your project requires, we’re ready to review construction to ensure that our shared vision is executed fully and delivered on time and within budget.

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Tell Us What You Need, We’ll Design the Way Forward

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