A1RE Design and Build

A1RE Design and Build takes a job from the drawings through to the finished room — architectural design and kitchen and bath design on one side, additions, extensions and new construction on the other — from 381 Elliot Street in Newton Upper Falls. The awards are the concrete thing here. Its Houzz profile lists a 2025 Prism Award gold win, a 2024 Prism Award silver in collaboration with Alsar Atelier, and a 2025 ArchDaily nomination for Building of the Year, also with Alsar Atelier. Nine projects sit on that profile, and the firm lists work across dozens of Greater Boston towns. The services it lists run design-led: architectural drawings, guesthouse design and construction, basement remodeling, deck building, outdoor kitchens. That breadth is worth pinning down before you hire. Ask which of the nine posted projects the firm ran end to end and which were collaborations, ask to see a finished job near you, and settle the design fee and the construction contract as two separate numbers — with the licence and insurance confirmed — before you sign.