America’s greenest hotel wants guests to be wide-eyed to climate change

Boston Globe

September 2024

One-of-a-kind hotel runs entirely on electricity, showing the future of sustainable hospitality

CBS Saturday Morning

August 2024

Westport architect reimagines old buildings with new ideas

Westport Journal

August 2024

The Connecticut hotel offering a road map for zero-emissions hospitality

Hotel Dive

May 2024

Becker Joins Fine Arts Commission

Northeast Meetings and Events

May 2024

America’s First Passive House Certified Hotel

Forbes

April 2024

Building a Zero Emission Hotel

Yale School of Management - Alumni Spotlight

January 2024

How a neglected building was transformed into America’s greenest hotel

CNN

December 2023

The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Gets a Well-Deserved Makeover

Metropolis

July 2023

The Remaking of a Modern Masterpiece

Amherst Magazine

Summer 2023

The 100 Best New Hotels in the World - The 2023 It List

Travel and Leisure

April 2023

Marcel takes the LEED

New Haven Independent

April 2023

Connecticut Hotel Is Touted as Nation’s First Fossil Fuel-Free Hospitality Property

Redevelopment of the Year - Impact Award

March 2023

How Tech and Sustainability Go Hand in Hand: An Independent Hotel’s POV

Hospitality Technology

March 2023

Project of Note:  A Brutalist Icon

CT Cottages & Gardens

March 2023

Dislodging emissions from the hotel industry: New Haven’s Hotel Marcel aims to reach net-zero carbon

Yale Daily News

February 2023

52 Places to Go in 2023

New York Times

January 2023

From Headquarters to Hotel

Detail Magazine - Cover Feature

January 2023

Architecture to See in 2023

Financial Times

December 2022

Top 10 US architecture projects of 2022

Dezeen

December 2022

Net-zero hotels: 6 top stays for travelers who prioritize sustainability

CNN

November 2022

Hotel Marcel named 2022’s most “Eco- or Socially Conscious Hotel”

Hospitality Design

November 2022

How Big can you make a Passive House?

Undecided with Matt Ferrell

November 2022

New England’s New Breed of Design Hotels

The Times of London

September 2022

Brutalist Marcel Breuer hotel among 2022 Modernism in America Award winners

Dezeen

September 2022

Inside the Sustainable Hotel Everyone’s Talking About

AFAR

August 2022

Overnight with Breuer

Interior Design

August 2022

That Weird Building on the Highway Is Actually Famous and Now a Hotel

Daily Beast

July 2022

In New Haven, a Landmark Brutalist Building Becomes America’s First Fossil Fuel-Free Hotel

Vogue

July 2022

Hotel Review - Hotel Marcel

SLEEPER

July 2022

‘Hotel Marcel’ By Becker + Becker Opens in New Haven, CT

DesignBoom

July 2022

New Haven’s Hotel Marcel is a Brutalist beauty — and at ‘net zero,’ it’s a gentle one, too

Boston Globe

June 2022

It’s Electric: Hotel Marcel Owner Bruce Redman Becker on Developing a Net-Zero Hotel

Lodging

June 2022

Marcel Breuer's brutalist office in Connecticut reopens as Hotel Marcel

Dezeen

June 2022

How a Landmark Marcel Breuer Building Became a Groundbreaking, Energy-Conscious Hotel

Dwell

June 2022

This Marcel Breuer–Designed Brutalist Building Has Reopened as a Net-Zero Luxury Hotel

Architectural Digest

June 2022

In New Haven, A Marcel Breuer Classic Is Reimagined as a Net Zero–Energy Hotel

Architectural Record

June 2022

Hotels with Net Zero Ambitions

New York Times

April 2022

How ‘net-zero’ hotels could make travel more climate-friendly

National Geographic

April 2022

Former Pirelli Tire Building is about to open as planned net-zero energy hotel

Hartford Courant

April 2022

The World’s 6 Most Beautiful Buildings That Redefine Sustainable Architecture

Architectural Digest

April 2022

'Captain Zero' and his amazing hotel from the future!

Connecticut Magazine

April 2022

A Brutalist Connecticut office building sat empty for years. Now it’s a net-zero energy hotel

Boston Globe

March 2022

How an Iconic Brutalist Building Became One of the Most Sustainable Hotels in the U.S.

Buildings

February 2022

15 Most Anticipated High Design Hotel Openings of 2022

Architectural Digest

December 2021

This Eco-friendly Hotel Will Make U.S. History When It Opens in 2022

Travel + Leisure

December 2021

Hotel Marcel to Open April 2022 in New Haven, Connecticut

HospitalityNet

December 2021

Stay at the First Net Zero Hotel

Gotham

November 2021

This revived architectural landmark could be the first net-zero hotel in the US

CNN

October 2021

Hotel Marcel will be the World’s most Energy Efficient

Fox5 New York

September 2021

Historic Pirelli Building becomes Hotel Marcel

Treehugger

September 2021

A Brutalist Building by a Bauhaus Master is Reborn as a Net Zero Hotel

Fast Company

August 2021

New Haven Landmark Becomes a Symbol of Climate Action

Techonomy

July 2021

Nation’s 1st “Net Zero” Hotel Takes Form

New Haven Independent

June 2021

Hotel Marcel Opening its Passive House Doors

Passive House Accelerator

June 2021

An Icon of Brutalist Architecture Gets a Second Life as a Hotel

Metropolis

June 2021

The Retool of an Aging Marcel Breuer Showstopper Takes the High Road

The Architect’s Newspaper

May 2021

Greenest Hotel to Open in New Haven, CT

WNBC 6 o’clock TV News

April 2021

This Hotel One Hour Outside of NYC is Poised to become the Greenest in the U.S.

Time Out

April 2021

This Architectural Icon Will Soon Be the Greenest Hotel in the U.S. - Hotel Marcel Brings Marcel Breuer into the Future

Thrillist

April 2021

Hotel Marcel To Become The First Passive House Design Hotel In The US

Forbes

April 2021

Concrete Dreams - One Hotel Portends a New Future for Long Wharf

Yale Journal of Politics and Culture

March 2021

Marcel Breuer’s Icon of Brutalist Architecture in CT Reimagined as a Hotel

Wallpaper*

February 26, 2021

Artistic Vision - Bruce Becker Transforms Iconic Buildings

New Haven Biz

February 2021

Hotels are a New Frontier for Net Zero

Green Building Advisor

December 2020

Hotels Lag in Energy Sustainability. One Project May Change That.

In The New York Times

November 10, 2020

Rooms by the sea

In Yale Alumni Magazine

May/June 2020

Saving Breuer's Pirelli Building

In Constructs, the Yale School of Architecture’s biannual news magazine

March 22, 2020

Meet the man who’s rescuing the iconic, but long-vacated Pirelli Tire Building

In CTPost

March 22, 2020

Brutalist Marcel Breuer building in Connecticut sold to become hotel

Dezeen

January 13, 2020

Marcel Breuer's iconic Pirelli Building will be readapted into hotel

In The Architect’s Newspaper

January 13, 2020

Historic Brutalist building by Marcel Breuer will be transformed into a hotel

In Curbed

January 10, 2020

360 State Builder Buys IKEA Hotel Site

In New Haven Independent

January 6, 2020

Bruce Becker: Zero Energy Home Is 100% Worth It

Green Building Award presented by Sustainable Westport for retrofitting a zero energy house

May 2019

Downtown Hartford Apartments Earn Highest Energy Conservation Rating

Adaptive reuse of mid-century modern office tower wins LEED Platinum rating

November 2016

777 Main Grand Opening

Hartford Courant article detailing the grand opening of 777 Main, with comments from the Governor and other speakers

November 17, 2015

Financing Set for Downtown Hartford's Largest Apartment Project

Hartford Courant article announcing the finance closing and construction start of the historic rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of 777 Main Street tower

March 31, 2014

Elevating Sustainability

Hartford Business Journal cover story featuring our sustainable design and development practice

Summer 2013

Tower of Power

Business New Haven magazine's article on Bruce Becker's 2011 Businessperson of the Year award and his role developing the 360 State Street project

February 2011

360 State Street

Green Building & Design article with a behind the scenes look at what it took to develop the country's first LEED Platinum-certified neighborhood

February 2011

Green Gamble

Connecticut Magazine article about the progress of the 360 State Street project and tenants who have moved in

October 2010

Powering Up With New Fuel Cells

Wall Street Journal article about two buildings in the New York region that are poised to become among the first large-scale residential projects powered by fuel cells, 360 State Street and The Octagon

September 21, 2010

Near Yale, a 32-Story Gamble Rises in New Haven

New York Times article, in the Square Feet real estate section, about progress and challenges of the 360 State Street project

July 2010

Becker + Becker Constructs Connecticut's First LEED Platinum Residential Project

New England Real Estate Journal's Project of the Month feature article about 360 State Street

April 2010

State Street Construction Goes Green

News Channel 8 WNTH 3/10/10 report on numerous green features and small carbon footprint of 360 State Street

March 2010

360 State Hailed as National Model

New Haven Independent's report on Senator Chris Dodd and HUD Deputy Secretary Ron Sim's tour of 360 State Street which they praised as a "green, living model" for sustainable and livable communities across the state and the nation

March 9, 2010

The Man Behind the Crane

Business New Haven, On the Record column, an interview with Bruce Becker about the history of and plans for the 360 State Street project in New Haven, CT

September 2009

The Yale Effect Spreads Out

New York Times national edition featuring Becker + Becker's 360 State Street transit-oriented development in New Haven, CT

March 24, 2009

Harlan H. Griswold Award Honors Wauregan Hotel Saviors

In Connecticut Preservations News

June 2007

Redefining Downtown

in CT Business about Our transformation of a long-vacant 1.5 acre surface parking lot in downtown New Haven, CT into high end housing, low-income housing, retail, and parking using green technologies and a design that blends with the historic character of the neighborhood

May 2007

Low-Income Housing Revives Downtown

In Affordable Housing Finance

February 2007

From Mad House to Green House - Making History

in Multihousing Professional on Our transformation of the former Blackwell Lunatic Asylum into the The Octagon as a "green" residential community

January 2007

Roosevelt Island Goes Upscale - 1970's Utopian Village Fills with Luxury Units

in Apartment Finance Today on Our redevelopment of The Octagon

October 2006

Perfect Shape

from MultiFamily Executive magazine, details Our work restoring the historic Octagon Building on Roosevelt Island

August 2006

Blending Centuries

Cover story about our work restoring The Octagon building

July 2006

Saving Norwich: Back From The Brink

Hartford Courant commentary about Our preservation and re-use of the Wauregan Hotel

July 9, 2006

An Old Textile Center, Refashioned for Luxury

New York Times article about restoration projects in Norwich, Connecticut, including Our work restoring the 1855 Wauregan Hotel

May 31, 2006

Roosevelt Island Headed Upscale

The Real Deal article on Our design and redevelopment of The Octagon

December 2005

Rentals rise on Roosevelt

New York Daily News article on The Octagon

December 12, 2005

Outsider Appeal

New York Magazine

November 21, 2005

New York Governor Pataki Announces Partnership Between Developers, Unions, for Historic Octagon Building on Roosevelt Island 500

Press release announcing the groundbreaking for the construction of 500 units of mixed-income housing on Roosevelt Island at the Octagon Building

December 1, 2004

Beauty in the Bronx

SHELTERFORCE Cover story on the high standards of architecture embodied in Our adaptive re-use of the Morrisania Hospital for affordable housing

April 2004

Saving the Wauregan Hotel

Northeast Preservation News on Our adaptive re-use plan for the historic Wauregan Hotel in Norwich, CT

April 2004

Roosevelt Island Building to be Solar Powered

Environment News on Octagon Park Apartments' planned use of photovoltaic panels

May 15, 2003

Day-Care Programs Group Toddlers With the Elderly

Wall Street Journal article featuring Mt. Kisco Intergenerational Day Care

September 23, 2003

Restoring Roosevelt Island's Ruins

The National Trust's story about preservation challenges overcome by our redevelopment of the Octagon

April 25, 2003

Unsavory Past, Great Design, and a Makeover Looms

E. E. Lippincott of the NY Times writes about B+B's design and development plans for the Octagon

March 3, 2002

Once a Hospital and Again and Anchor

New York Times article about the transformation of the Morrisania Hospital into Urban Horizons

April 30, 2000

Miracle on 43rd Street

CBS 60 Minutes segment by Steve Kroft on our redevelopment of the Times Square Hotel as supportive housing

August 3, 1997

More than Shelter

Architecture Magazine

March 1996

Low Rises Rising on Lower East Side

New York Times article about B+B’s new prototype for public housing on the lower east side

June 30, 1996

Times Square Hotel as the Biggest SRO

New York Times article about the creation of the largest supportive housing project in the country, designed and planned by B+B

December 1, 1991