Diversity and Inclusion

Welcoming. Representative. Buildings are for everyone, and by designing inclusive environments we pave the way for meaningful change.

Connection creates meaning. Through hospitable, energizing environments, we design places where people can live their best lives together.

Engaged Communities

Connection creates meaning. Through hospitable, energizing environments, we design places where people can live their best lives together. 

We all want to leave the planet better. As creators of the built environment, we do our part through an unwavering commitment to reduce carbon through our work and actions.

Environmental Stewardship

We all want to leave the planet better. As creators of the built environment, we do our part through an unwavering commitment to reduce carbon through our work and actions. 

Health is more than the absence of disease. It’s an overarching sense of wellness, something that can be designed into every project—from offices to hospitals.

Healthy Living

Health is more than the absence of disease. It’s an overarching sense of wellness, something that can be designed into every project—from offices to hospitals. 

Financial uncertainty. Pivoting programs. These factors can impact a project at every turn. But through construction innovation, projects can be delivered faster and cheaper.

Process and Delivery

Financial uncertainty. Pivoting programs. These factors impact a project at every turn. But through design and construction innovation, projects can be delivered faster and cheaper. 

Aging properties don't have to become liabilities. Renewal and repositioning transforms outdated spaces into valuable assets—delivering results fast and cost-effectively.

Renewal and Repositioning

Is Your Retail Space Vacant? Here Are Five Unexpected Ways to Fill It.

Harvard Business Review: How LinkedIn Redesigned Its HQ for Hybrid Work

Building Rapport: How Relationships and Integrated Teams Drive Project Success

Four Strategies to Balance Equity, Ecology and New Development When Designing and Planning for Waterfront Revitalization

Urban Waterfronts Should Be Designed to Protect Our Communities

In our latest collaboration with the University of Washington, we explore three design solutions to encourage creativity at home and in the office.

How Space Impacts Creativity in the Hybrid Workplace

From Insight to Action: Three Ways Design Computation Empowers Better Decision-Making

Postpandemic Workplace Ideas Inspired by Prepandemic Trends

Harvard Business Review: Design An Office People Want to Come Back To

The Workplace Should Be Organic: Six Ways to Create a Strong Connection to Nature in Any Workplace

The Community as Co-Creator: Why Community Engagement is Crucial to an Inclusive Design Process

Humanizing Skyscrapers: Rethinking Tall Buildings for Human Interaction

From Fortress to Front Door: How High-Rises Can Attract Tech Tenants In a Highly Competitive Market

Five Strategies to Support Rest in the Office

How Can Rest Build Creativity, Focus and Wellness at Work

The inpatient room of the future must appeal to baby boomers and millennials alike. Here's how it can.

In a Virtual Age, Physical Connection Still Matters—Especially During a Hospital Stay

Look Both Ways: A Virtual Roundtable Exploring Trends in the Life Science Market and Workplace

The ‘No Shadow Tower’: How Tall Buildings Can Bring Daylight Back to the Public Realm

‘What We Care About’: A Roundtable Conversation with A+U

How Social and Technological Changes Are Reshaping the Practice of Architecture

An evidenced-based approach to elevate workplace experience, health and performance.

How Do You Redefine and Create a New Rhythm of Life?

Sheds, Meds and Beds: Evolving Uses for Tomorrow’s Mixed-Use Developments

An architecture of empathy harnesses close listening and emotional intelligence as catalysts for innovation.

How Empathy Should Reshape Our Built Environment

Three Steps Hospitals Can Take to Better Utilize Their Office Space

Rethinking the Medical Campus

Multiple Minds Are Better Than One: How Density Builds Better Ideas in the Workplace

As research methods in the life sciences develop at an unprecedented rate, how can our buildings keep up?

Seven Ways that Life Sciences Buildings Can Support Today’s Advanced Research Needs

Recalibrating Our Streets: What Types of Mobility Do We Want to Prioritize?

Despite the pandemic, history shows that urban growth is likely to continue because cities provide benefits that cannot be replicated elsewhere.

In Defense of Cities

Responding to a China on the March

Ten Research-Based Ideas to Improve Hybrid Work Settings

Staying Human in a Digital Workplace

How Changing Retail Trends Are Creating New Opportunities for Urban Experiences and Public Space

When Everyone Shops Online, What Happens to Mixed-Use Retail?

As people head back to the office, a look at how workplaces can better accommodate four-legged friends.

Who Let the Dogs In?

Coming Out of the Pandemic, the Future of Workplaces Remains Intriguingly Unknown. Where Can Companies Find Clarity on What to Do Next?

The Longer Experiment

A Conversation with Professor Philip Withers, Chief Scientist of the Henry Royce Institute about the Future Science Workplace

"There Will Be No Such Thing as a Standard Day in the Life of a Research Building"

How Design Can Support Lifelong Learning at Work

The Workplace as School

From Swimming Pools to Pirate Ships, Amenities (Even Crazy Ones) Aren’t Just Perks, but Assets to Enhance Performance

The Four Types of Strategic Real Estate Amenities

Revitalizing the Street Level: Opportunities to Rethink the Ground Floor

The business benefit of relationships with colleagues and how the design of post-Covid offices can foster valuable connections.

Socializing At Work Is About More Than Just Fun And Games.

Four Opportunities for Commercial Offices to Build Connection Among Tenants and the Community

Buildings in Conversation with the City

All Together: Summoning Ideals During a Period of Crisis

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