Prellwitz / Chilinski Associates

Prellwitz/Chilinski Associates is a Cambridge architecture, interior design and planning firm whose work spans retail, urban rehabilitation, education, housing, hospitality and mixed-use projects. Urban renovation is a mainstay, and the firm has spent decades helping shape Harvard Square, including revitalizing Holyoke Center and creating the Shops at Harvard Yard with Harvard Real Estate, renovating the Sage Building at Brattle and Church streets, and designing the Fire and Ice restaurant on Church Street.

The firm describes its approach as humanist and built on creative partnerships with clients, who have included Carpenter and Company, the Druker Company, Lesley College, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Bar Association. Recent work includes Arsenal Yards in Watertown, the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments, Saltie Girl in Back Bay and The Revolution Hotel in the South End, a historic YWCA dormitory converted into a boutique hotel with coworking space and artist-made installations.

What to Know

• The firm also practices sustainable design, including a Phius Core certified project.
• The Revolution Hotel was named the No. 1 hotel in Boston in a 2019 reader’s choice award.
• It publishes an Ideas section on design trends and project thinking.