Our team of professionals are imaginative, open-minded, and enthusiastic about connecting with the client’s vision to execute award-winning buildings and spaces. Our architectural work includes private residential, housing, commercial, hospitality, and retail projects. While rooted in contemporary design, each project reflects its individual context, specific location, and broader cultural connections. Hacin is also one of the city’s best-known champions of historic architecture, adaptive reuse, and preservation.
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Hacin’s accomplished interior design team is comprised of experienced professionals with diverse skill sets and backgrounds that has been widely recognized for a high standard of expressive work and a narrative, conceptual approach. They also provide an essential and intricate dialog between furniture, objects, rooms, and spaces at even the finest grain. Since the practice began, the team has designed distinctive single-family homes, lofts, apartments, commercial spaces, offices, and hospitality and retail locations throughout the United States.
Hacin’s visual identity team brings life to our clients’ branding and marketing efforts on commercial, hospitality, and retail projects. Through an integrated approach, our visual identity designers reinforce the clear concept of the project through a robust dialog with our other disciplines to tell a cohesive story to prospective audiences. We create new visual identities and also support established brands through logos, printed materials, environmental graphics, signage and wayfinding, copywriting, photography, and online presence.
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On every project, our interdisciplinary team works together to create an initial vision for the project, with each discipline bringing a different perspective and sensibility to the conversation. We believe a strong conceptual development is the most important influence on a team’s ability to carry through a vision to completion. For clients who do not need full service design, we engage in the visioning process and deliver a working concept with guidelines to help clients launch a project on their own terms.
For over three decades, Hacin has worked within the urban design and planning realm, completing feasibility studies and master plans that infill underutilized sites, extend and repair existing neighborhoods, and build new communities. By listening to stakeholders, balancing clients and community needs, and exploring and envisioning design opportunities inherent in a particular site, we have played a key role in building support for new developments, increased density, and expanded housing opportunities.
Our design team creates custom furniture and lighting pieces that are site-specific, requiring a tailormade fit and finish, reflecting our clients’ unique tastes and needs. Custom pieces offer opportunities to produce something bold, poetic, or not-yet-imagined for spaces that aspire to a more distinctive approach. We have years of experience developing strong relationships with top-notch collaborators to produce pieces of the highest standard, with lead-times that benefit from domestic workrooms and partnerships.
We find that our most successful work allows for designing a space holistically, down to the smallest detail. For commercial, hospitality, and retail clients that recognize the impact of finishing touches, we offer site styling services, including object and artwork curation, as well as product display and merchandising where required.
From private residential and commercial housing to retail and hospitality, our team offers art development and procurement services to customize artistic expression in the environments we design. Our experience includes acquiring one-of-a-kind pieces and installations to highlight a space, creating and sourcing thematic art on a budget, and working with existing art collections to reinforce harmony and balance. For our team, art is integral to the design.
Always nimble and ever curious, our team is perpetually thrilled at the chance to solve new problems we have not yet encountered.
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Since the inception of the design studio at Hacin, we have thrived in environments where we allow for all possible influences in our work. Our portfolio illustrates our interest in a broad range of project types and a boundless approach to what we can design. From full scale buildings and interiors to custom furniture, artwork, wallpapers, menus, and logos, we aim for cohesively designed experiences, wherever they are and for whomever they serve.
Expertise by project type
Since its inception, Hacin has designed distinctive single-family homes, lofts, and apartments throughout the United States, and we are proud to have cultivated relationships with an extraordinary network of individuals that we think of as collaborators as much as clients. Our work is rooted in ‘concept-driven design’ and aims to celebrate the inherent qualities and character of a site as well as the unique aspirations of the people who will inhabit it. For our private clients, the firm's interdisciplinary team works together to create architecture, interior design, and personalized graphic expression to meet their highest design standards and exceed expectations. Our residential design team has received honors from every major awards program in the industry and our work has been widely published many times over to a growing, global audience.
Whether you're overhauling a stately Newton Tudor or building a shiny new loft in the South End, this is your go-to team for smart layouts, stunning detailing, and integrated interior and exterior spaces - in other words, exceptional contemporary design.
- BEST OF BOSTON, BOSTON MAGAZINE
Working with entrepreneurs, creative companies, non-profit organizations, and seasoned developers, our commercial buildings and interiors have been praised for their thoughtful designs and are often respected as neighborhood landmarks. Much of our work has been considered catalytic in the realm of housing and neighborhood redevelopment, impacting the trajectory of entire communities and the city at large. Hacin's experience creating dynamic workspaces for advertising agencies, design consultancies, beauty product laboratories, and real estate agencies and investors, further illustrates the range and influence of our broad commercial practice. The work we do supports our belief in the impact of ‘incremental urbanism’ — the notion that small actions can add up to big changes in our community over time — and is well demonstrated through our extensive body work throughout the Boston area.
[Hacin’s] special talent lies in absorbing what's lovely and worthy of preservation from our urban context and distilling those elements into handsome new architecture...working artfully and precisely. [The design team] is not afraid to look to the past for inspiration and beauty, and knows their clients have modern requirements to satisfy, but they're also committed to building something that will last well beyond a lifetime. [Hacin] is designing and building for the long haul - not just for the past or the present, but for the future above all else.
- RESIDENTIAL DESIGN MAGAZINE
Hacin has cultivated a distinct portfolio of retail, hotel, and restaurant work throughout the Greater Boston area and around the world. We firmly believe that a strong design identity is integral to the success of any brand or venture. Reflecting our range of top tier retail and hospitality clients, our team’s design expertise is similarly diverse and far-reaching: We have, over time, created a series of clean, modern trademark designs for a global beauty brand, conceived a top rated contemporary hotel that honors the character of a historic neighborhood, and contributed to the success of a number of recognized restaurateurs and celebrity chefs. Collaborating with local, national, and international clients, Hacin’s award-winning projects have been widely featured in the commercial and fashion press, recognized with top industry awards, and embraced by enthusiastic audiences everywhere we go.
We found [Hacin's] collaborative approach in designing hospitality spaces inspirational, thought provoking, and perfectly suited for carrying out our vision for each restaurant. Working closely together, it’s clear that their expertise in design in conjunction with our team’s experience made for authentic and ultimately superior results with which we couldn’t be more pleased.
- TRAVELER STREET HOSPITALITY
Over three decades, Hacin has built a reputation for work that celebrates our collective history. In the traditional sense, our work in architectural preservation has involved protecting historic structures from adverse change, either by restoration, careful intervention, or by avoiding intervention altogether to maintain a project’s cultural integrity. Hacin also embraces a broader definition of preservation that includes adapting historic buildings for modern use or constructing new buildings on historic sites that strengthen the character of an existing neighborhood or district. Our team is well-versed in identifying innovative solutions to meet the goals of preservation agencies, understanding the technical requirements of new and existing buildings, and always keeping the programmatic needs of our clients uppermost in our minds. Over the years, our work has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Boston Preservation Alliance, among others.
New infill amongst historic structures is one of the most difficult challenges architects face. [Hacin's] work on Four51 Marlborough shows that careful consideration of context and significant detailing can be respectful and appropriately referential to historic design while creating a thoroughly modern building.
- GREG GALER, BOSTON PRESERVATION ALLIANCE
