SMOOK Architecture & Urban Design, Inc.

SMOOK Architecture & Urban Design, Inc. Enhancing business or living environments through excellence in design www.smookarchitecture.com

SMOOKarchitecture2026🇬🇧🇺🇸Dateline: Northborough, MA12 April 1747SMOOK Timemachine 🌪️Came across the “Brigham Street Buri...
04/12/2026

SMOOKarchitecture2026🇬🇧🇺🇸
Dateline: Northborough, MA
12 April 1747
SMOOK Timemachine 🌪️

Came across the “Brigham Street Burial Grounds” in Northborough (formerly part of Marlborough, MA), this cemetery was founded in 1726 (300 yrs ago). This cemetery predates the Declaration of Independence by 50 years!

Humbled by this headstone for this British Subject, Aaron Wheeler, who passed at the age of 19 years of age. He died on 12 April 1747 (289 years ago today!).

SMOOKarchitecture🇺🇸Dateline: Needham, MA 13 March 2026   !🛑Back in Needham, MA, one of our favorite towns for residentia...
03/13/2026

SMOOKarchitecture🇺🇸
Dateline: Needham, MA
13 March 2026


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Back in Needham, MA, one of our favorite towns for residential makeovers. Increased land values over the last decade have, at times, left homeowners sitting in a property worth more then the house itself. This makes property ripe for developers to bulldoze quaint homes and replace with McMansions. So we are always pleased when a homeowner chooses to retain us to design an appropriately scaled intervention.
Thanks to our partner Blueprint Advisors LLC lead by the great Jon Fox


SMOOKarchitecture2026🇺🇸15 January 2026Dateline: Wellesley, MA  Located in the toney suburb of Wellesley, MA, this Bedroo...
01/15/2026

SMOOKarchitecture2026🇺🇸
15 January 2026
Dateline: Wellesley, MA


Located in the toney suburb of Wellesley, MA, this Bedroom/Bathroom addition was built to accommodate this clients aging mother. The project pulls elements, including brick, from the original home, and infuses them into a complimentary gable form.

Builder: Patriot Construction , Scott Estabrooks.
Interiors & OPM: Pamela Brown Forman

SMOOKarchitecture2026🇺🇸Dateline: S. Weymouth, MA 11 January 2026 ⚡️Located on the property of the former South Weymouth ...
01/11/2026

SMOOKarchitecture2026🇺🇸
Dateline: S. Weymouth, MA
11 January 2026
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Located on the property of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station, this Sales Center designed by SMOOK serves as a gateway to a new mixed-used community - Union Point (formerly Southfield).

The design is a fusion of agrarian and contemporary themes. Large pin mounted letters adorn the building building announcing - you have arrived!

Looking back we see how this building had been influenced by Clay’s earlier works - designing residential and commercial New England Vernicular Architecture, as well as, marquee retail, dining and entertainment venues around America.




SMOOKarchitecture2026🇺🇸Dateline: Port-of-call, Wrangell, AK October 1945 Post VE Day Edition  “Semper Paratus”Destroyer ...
01/07/2026

SMOOKarchitecture2026🇺🇸
Dateline: Port-of-call, Wrangell, AK
October 1945
Post VE Day Edition

“Semper Paratus”

Destroyer Es**rt - USS Sellstrom (my fathers ship), arrives Alaska, where he will disembark and eventually return home to civilian life.

Norman Smook
Motor Machinist Mate
1942-1945 US Coast Guard
Atlantic Duty

SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸Dateline: North Shore, MA 10 October 2025 🐄. Can’t spell SMOOK without it!Super fun quick design ...
10/10/2025

SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸
Dateline: North Shore, MA
10 October 2025
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Can’t spell SMOOK without it!

Super fun quick design study for a Senior Housing Project north of Boston on a former Farm Site!


SMOOK Architecture & Urban Design, Inc.

SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸Dateline: Wareham, MA 1 October 2025 A design study for an addition to a 60,000sf Medical Office ...
10/03/2025

SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸
Dateline: Wareham, MA
1 October 2025


A design study for an addition to a 60,000sf Medical Office Building in Wareham. SMOOK was the designer of the original Southcoast Health Facility 17 years ago and SGA (Boston | New York) was the Architect-of-Record.

The expansion, connected by a Skybridge, adds 20,000sf of Doctors Offices, as well as Urgent Care and a Pharmacy at Ground Level.

SMOOKarchitecture2024🇺🇸Dateline: Plymouth, MA 1 October 2025  SMOOK is pleased to be working with The Grantham Group on ...
10/01/2025

SMOOKarchitecture2024🇺🇸
Dateline: Plymouth, MA
1 October 2025



SMOOK is pleased to be working with The Grantham Group on a new 60 unit Senior Housing Project at REDBROOK in Plymouth, MA

Time Machine 🌪️ - Who remembers the days drawings these projects by hand on vellum, making sepias for reflected ceiling plans. Almost burning holes in the vellum with an electric eraser, due to change after change…

Off we go!

SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸25 September 2025Dateline: Worldwide   Happy National Daughters Day with this Beauty!
09/26/2025

SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸
25 September 2025
Dateline: Worldwide


Happy National Daughters Day with this Beauty!

SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸24 September 2025Dateline: Wellesley, MA  !Stopped by to see this old friend! Located in this hig...
09/24/2025

SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸
24 September 2025
Dateline: Wellesley, MA
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Stopped by to see this old friend!

Located in this highly desirable suburb of Boston, this house located in Wellesley is undergoing a wholesale renovation. Many of the homes built in this town date back to the 1920s and earlier, with ceiling heights of 8 feet or lower. Our design moves the central entertaining spaces to the rear and side of the building… slipping out beneath the existing second floor. The new Kitchen, Dining, and Great Room areas will boast soaring ceilings of 11 feet in height.

Partner with Clay Benjamin Smook, Architect of SMOOK Architecture & Urban Design, Inc. on your next commercial or residential project!

New Photos: Lara Kimmerer

Interiors and OPM: Pamela Brown Forman
Landscape Architect: Wesley Wirth
Contractor: Scott Estabrooks



SMOOKarchitecture🇺🇸Dateline: Dover, MA17 September 2025 Having a fun time designing a detached oversized two/car Garage ...
09/17/2025

SMOOKarchitecture🇺🇸
Dateline: Dover, MA
17 September 2025


Having a fun time designing a detached oversized two/car Garage for an Estate Home in Dover, MA. We designed three alternatives, this version is deeply rooted The Craftsman Style. Materials include stone, and bark siding in the gable end. Two other versions to follow in coming posts.



SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸Dateline: East Boston Piers Park c. Spring 1992 🌀Over 30 years ago, I had the pleasure of working...
07/18/2025

SMOOKarchitecture2025🇺🇸
Dateline: East Boston Piers Park
c. Spring 1992
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Over 30 years ago, I had the pleasure of working at CBT Architects and Pressley Associates Landscape Architects (with the late Bill Pressley) on the design of East Boston Piers Park - Phase I. The 10 million dollar project was funded by Massport. Bill was such a cooperative spirit, allowing me to significantly shape the Park Design to craft opportunities for architectural icons.

Clay Benjamin Smook, Architect designed several open-air and enclosed pavilion buildings and a series of eight of these “kiosks” (pictured here) constructed of pre-cast masts supporting lead-coated copper canopies. These were presented and approved over a series of public meetings. Clay conceptualized the structures as individual salutes to the Boston Skyline.

Came across this picture in a bankers box today. Grateful to have created these structures that are enjoyed by Bostonians & Tourist over the last 30 yrs and well into the future.

Architect of Record: CBT Architects
Landscape Architect: Pressley Associates Landscape Architects Marion Pressley, FASLA

East Boston Piers Park

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