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Every project and client solution starts with a spark of an idea. Read what we’re saying and how we engage our teams in design thinking and problem solving.

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A New Level of Design Excellence in Student-Athlete Development

In the ever-evolving landscape of collegiate athletics, how can institutions enhance recruitment and retention, foster athletic excellence, and support student-athletes' overall performance and wellbeing? Our experts reveal their insights.

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Palo Alto Public Safety Building canopied entrance to multi story light stone building, floor to ceiling windows on second floor, wrapped facade

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The Tide Pool: Designing Emergency Operations Centers

Designing an effective EOC requires a flexible, resilient design that accommodates the needs of multiple agencies and ensures first-responder well-being during crises.

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Hospital Design from the Nurse鈥檚 Perspective

What if a few simple changes could make a nurse鈥檚 job easier, more efficient, and at the same time improve the level of care a patient received? Healthcare organizations are rethinking how they deliver patient care, and it's saving money too.

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The Evolution of Student-Athlete Spaces鈥�

Athletic directors navigate the ever-changing landscape of college sports with advice from Sports Design Leader Gregory Garlock.

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A Lasting Housing Impact: Gen-Z Redefines Multifamily Living

A new generation has moved into the multifamily and student housing space, and brought unique preferences for how to live.

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Inquiry and Wonder Supported Through the Built Environment

Flexible, adaptable learning environments are important in supporting inquiry-based learning. Our BOLD鈩� process helps educators build future-ready spaces.

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Design Focused: Leading the Conversation on CTE

As leaders in career and technical education design, we constantly look for opportunities to advance the conversation. In fall 2023, we brought together some of the most influential voices in career and technical education for the Association for Learning Environments鈥� CTE Symposium.

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Seeing and Valuing the Patient as a Customer

Modern patients have increased agency in navigating the healthcare system. Christina DeAmicis talks about what the "patient as a customer" means for design.

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Unlocking the Potential of Mass Timber: 5 Lessons from T3 Projects

Upon completion of our sixth T3 office building, explore what we鈥檝e learned from designing nearly three million SF of mass timber.

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Mass Timber in Focus

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Mass Timber Innovation: The Hospitality Prototype

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Materiality and Hospitality: Researching Mass Timber Design for Hotels

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The Benefits of Being Connected to Nature through Intentional Design

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Biophilia and Mass Timber at Swarthmore College

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Designing for Equity: A Guide to GIS Principles

Interested in design for equity? Learn five principles that unlock GIS鈥� potential, and questions to ask your designer or planner.

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In Our Communities

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Reviving Harlem鈥檚 Disappearing Queer Spaces

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Crafting the Heart of the Contemporary Community

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Arte Noir: A Home to Honor the Black Creative Community

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Adaptive Reuse Through Collaboration And Community

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Climate Literacy: Gamifying Sustainable Design

VALUES gamifies climate-responsive design by helping people of all backgrounds prioritize environmental, economic, and communal impacts.

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Designing a Sustainable Future

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Carbon 101: A Beginner鈥檚 Guide to Carbon and Climate Change

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Carbon 201: Nine Tactics for Total Carbon Reduction

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Materials Transparency in Use: Addressing Gaps

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Data Center Design for Today and Tomorrow

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Choose Your Own Climate Adventure: Nine World-Changing Concepts from COP28

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Ideas

Own Your Design Career

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From Intern to Executive: Career Pathways for Black Designers

Our Global Leader of Equity, Diversity, and Belonging reflects on Black History Month鈥檚 theme and Black designers鈥� career journeys.

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Emerging Professional Experience: How Can I Intern at 海角社区?

Students often have questions about what it's like to join 海角社区 as an intern. Here are some answers.

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Emerging Professionals: It All Comes Down to Core Values

The 2022 cohort of interns and new graduates tell us, in their words, how their work aligned with 海角社区鈥檚 core values.

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Emerging Professionals as a Priority

Prioritizing emerging professionals鈥� experience is a key part of workforce development.

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The Evolution of a Brand: AC Hotels

In partnership with Marriott, we have collaborated on the AC Hotel brand's evolution and designing 30 properties across the country.

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Integrated Design

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Adaptive Reuse: Converting Vacant Buildings into Thriving Spaces

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Bringing Project Stories to Iconic Graphic Status

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Integrating Technologies to Bring History to Life: A Krishna Story

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Featured Collab

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Accidentally Wes Anderson Tours Cleveland: Our Highlights

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Accidentally Wes Anderson Tours Colorado: Our Highlights

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In the Details: Women's History at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

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Press

In the Media

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Bisnow

Hospitals Go Back to the Drawing Board to Expand Postpandemic

Global Healthcare Leader Mark Tiscornia joined healthcare experts at the Bisnow New York Healthcare Real Estate Conference to weigh in on postpandemic hospital development.

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鈥淒esigning Spaces for Neurodiversity and Mental Health" Podcast Episode

Associate and Senior Design Researcher Kati Peditto, PhD, EDAC, discusses neurodivergent design for healthcare spaces on the Healthcare Interior Design 2.0 podcast.

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JUSTICE TRENDS

Designing Modern Correctional Facilities With Trauma-Informed Principles

Salutogenic and biophilic design approaches can influence wellbeing and help people thrive mentally and physically.

Groundbreaking at the University of Missouri Memorial Stadium Centennial Project showing people in a line with shovels

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Mutigers.com

Mizzou Breaks Ground on Memorial Stadium Centennial Project

The $250 million renovation is scheduled for completion in 2026 to coincide with the stadium鈥檚 100th anniversary.

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Interiors + Sources

Our Team Unveils Top Design Trends Shaping the A&D Industry in 2025

Our teams 2025 trend outlook explores creative design solutions that will lead the industry in the future.

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Dezeen

Designing for World Class Performing Arts Education

Our team and Robert A M Stern Architects unveil a pair of higher education buildings for performing arts at The Ohio State University.

Modern seating area filled with brown leather couches, rug in shades of blue, ottomans, walls with shelves and TV and a colorful mural outside the windows

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海角社区 Design magazine

The Great Migration: Lessons Learned from the 海角社区force鈥檚 Youngest Generation

Art Bloodworth is marking the Gen Z migration as the trend to watch in 2025. The young workforce is exploring new and sunny horizons at record speeds.

excellence early learning center with colorful ocean murals in blues and orange on the back wall. Light wood flooring and modern furniture.

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Archello

Activating Learning Through Immersive, Biophilic Design

Our team unveils the design behind the immersive learning experiences at Tomball ISD Early Excellence Academy.

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Fast Company

California鈥檚 Most Notorious Prison Is Getting a Redesign

San Quentin, California鈥檚 oldest prison, is being redesigned for rehabilitation, with more green space and classrooms to help re-entry.

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Dezeen

The Redesign of San Quentin

海角社区 and Schmidt Hammer Lassen will redesign San Quentin into a rehab center using trauma-informed, Scandinavian-inspired design.

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