David Holahan is Manager of Public Relations at Centerbrook. His freelance writing credits include The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek.
March 17, 2011 – 11:09 am
Casually rooting for a team, or teams, in collegiate post-season play is easy. Filling out a bracket in a fiscally responsible manner (if you get my drift) when you have six “favorites” in the field is a horse of another hue. At this writing, there are 64 basketball teams in the running for the NCAA [...]
Everyone is dying to know what the big bad winter meant for the annual production of Centerbrook maple syrup down by the Falls River … over to the lower parking lot … across from weeping willows …where the sugar maples grow, side by each. No one has said boo, but they’re just being shy, of [...]
February 14, 2011 – 11:43 am
Learning from others, and from experience, and sharing that knowledge is what separates homo sapiens – most of us, anyway – from other species. Sometimes, however, we learn something and then forget it – or fail to heed it and pass it on. The consequences of not getting smarter and smarter can be devastating. Take [...]
November 19, 2010 – 11:09 am
I have been told not to write about cats and I have not. No one said anything about raccoons. A family of these masked mammals introduced themselves to Centerbrook recently. The little bandits apparently are living beneath our offices, rent free, and the entire entourage padded out into a small enclosed courtyard from which a [...]
October 7, 2010 – 11:53 am
Sitting down to discuss architecture with Beverly Willis is akin to talking baseball with Willie Mays. Like Mays, her contemporary, she made her mark in San Francisco and did it all in an illustrious career. She was an accomplished and precocious artist whose talent enabled her to pay her way through college. Upon graduation, she [...]
Yale University has produced an engaging and informative video about Kroon Hall, examining how the new home for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies was planned, designed and built to LEED Platinum standards (and beyond). Opened last year, Kroon Hall has drawn rave reviews from the general and architectural media – and, more [...]
“Nature’s Answer” has just joined “Nature’s Call,” the “Blue Loo,” and assorted other partner-designed bathrooms here at the home office. All, save one, affords a unique sedentary experience. For example, take Jeff Riley’s Nature’s Call. One hasn’t lived until one has powdered one’s nose in front of a wide-screen, high-definition color television screening continuous nature [...]
I was invited to two meetings that kicked off the design development effort for a new math and science center at the Berkshire School in Massachusetts. The first dealt with Revit coordination, Revit being the latest in three-dimensional computer modeling software. The second gathering was the “Card Trick” meeting. I was the embedded, in-house reporter. [...]
I grew up on Long Island in the 1960s, and I went by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory twice a day, to and from school, for four years. I knew big things were going on in there, just off the main road through the trees, scientific things, way-over-my pay-grade kind of stuff. Science and I never [...]
It rained and rained Monday and Tuesday. Then it rained a little longer, stopped and poured some more. Mother Nature can be so redundant. Sepia-toned water arched over our dam, turning white and foamy when confronted with an obstruction or the rocks below. At the end of the day, the badminton court was under water, [...]
