From University student housing and adaptive workplaces to new approaches to residential design, health and well-being are integral to our holistic approach to sustainable architecture. Across typologies, we work to understand the lives of a building’s inhabitants — the first step in an integrated design concept that is essential to…

As part of our “In Dialogue” series celebrating Women’s History Month, we sat down with Dana Reed and Judy Chang to discuss designing for health and wellness in higher education and independent schools, mentorship, and the importance of community. Dana, you were Project Manager on New College House, which opened…

As part of our “In Dialogue” series celebrating Women’s History Month, we sat down with Associates Kirsten Clemens and Margaret Sledge to discuss working with mass timber, practice and industry shifts, embodied carbon assessment, and more. Mass timber has well documented environmental benefits — it’s a low carbon alternative to…

A three-part series on architecture that supports student wellbeing at the University of Pennsylvania Penn’s newest purpose-built college house promotes whole-student wellbeing in myriad ways, integrating flexible spaces that support community-building, balancing visual transparency with secure access, and helping residents find their place on campus and in the city. Variety…

As part of our “In Dialogue” series celebrating Women’s History Month, we sat down with Patreese Martin & JoBeth Hancock to discuss mentorship, resilience (in all of its forms), and the interplay between academic and professional worlds within their design practices. Prior to the pandemic, resilience was something architects were…

Today, buildings account for 45% of the overall energy consumption worldwide and 39% of our global greenhouse gas emissions. They use 60% of our electricity globally, and 40% of that electricity is generated from coal, producing 70% of the energy sector’s carbon emissions worldwide. …

Acknowledging that we are caretakers and stewards of both the design process and the resulting built environment (a responsibility we take very seriously), we aim to act as conduits rather than gatekeepers, working hand-in-hand with our clients and their communities to shape brighter futures. …

A three-part series on architecture supporting student wellbeing at the University of Pennsylvania Centering wellness in the design process helps us create spaces that meet diverse occupant needs, including physical, environmental, social, emotional, and spiritual health. …

Adapting a historic framework with spaces to gather, focus, explore and create Partnering with a previous workplace client on its new Oakland offices, we were inspired by the character of the historic site, a former department store, completed in 1929, that offered generous floor area and ceiling heights. …