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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.

Mass Timber in Focus

A mass timber midrise hotel with a blackened steel fa莽ade and timber infill with an arched timber canopy on a glassed-in rooftop
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Mass Timber Innovation: The Hospitality Prototype

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Walking up on a path to the new building characterized by warm woods, tall windows, and a curved roof at Swarthmore College Dining and Community Commons.
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Biophilia and Mass Timber at Swarthmore College

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Heavy timber ceiling, beams, and columns with a gray sofa and dark wood entertainment center
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Materiality and Hospitality: Researching Mass Timber Design for Hotels

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Interior view with curved glass wall, left. Right, a seating area with tables under wood ceiling with exposed beams and ducts
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The Benefits of Being Connected to Nature through Intentional Design

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Recommended Reads

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海角社区's First Female Employee

海角社区 was shaped by our founders and those they hired who were committed to fairness, opportunity, and ownership. Barbara Gaughan, the firm's first full-time female employee, shares how that transpired over her 40-year career.

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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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Hospital corridor with angled desk with multiple monitors in front of abstract blue and green mural. Glass partitions beyond

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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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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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Top 7 Women鈥檚 Student-Athlete Facilities

To mark the 50th anniversary of Title IX, we鈥檙e highlighting projects that develop the whole student-athlete with a focus on competition and training, nutrition and wellbeing, and academic support.

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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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Group of people assembled around a man in a black shirt expressively speaking to the crowd.

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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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Reinventing the Academic Library

Our designs are transforming academic libraries into future-facing environments focused on generating knowledge versus storing it.

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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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Aviation lab with helicopter, small plane, and displayed engine, mural at back with planes and pilots, american flag, right

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CTE Facilities Design: The Future of Education

Career and Technical Education facilities are the catalyst for our future workforce. At 海角社区, we鈥檙e connecting the built environment to special tailored curriculum and providing access to students to career pathways never thought imaginable before.

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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

Woman standing in Arte Noir Gallery interior in Seattle, movable white wall panels hang art in room with floor to ceiling windows, black ceiling
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Arte Noir: A Home to Honor the Black Creative Community

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Outdoor shopping mall renovated into walkable mixed-use space with shopping, dining, community seating areas, and green space
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Crafting the Heart of the Contemporary Community

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Educator and students reading on flexible comfortable yellow stools at white table with house shaped frame, bright graphic mural
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Adaptive Reuse Through Collaboration And Community

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Person in white jacket and blue jeans standing in front of a mash up of an old building facade and a fence with green and white graffiti
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Reviving Harlem鈥檚 Disappearing Queer Spaces

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

Find a world-changing idea from COP28 to spark your climate action, curated by our Chief Climate Officer and COP delegate.

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Curved hallway with floor to ceiling windows and wood panel ceiling. Round white recessed ceiling detail with hanging globe

Designing a Sustainable Future

green toned abstract clear models of building with scale trees in front of window, view of high rises
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Carbon 101: A Beginner鈥檚 Guide to Carbon and Climate Change

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architectural model with clear acrylic floorplates, solar panels, greenery and wood details, and 3D printed cores
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Carbon 201: Nine Tactics for Total Carbon Reduction

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two people looking at a white board pinned on a wall filled with evenly spaced paper and fabric swatches in purple colorways
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Materials Transparency in Use: Addressing Gaps

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an open ceiling with black orthogonal framing system that contains lighting pendants, pipes, metallic and red and blue tubes
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Data Center Design for Today and Tomorrow

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Balcony overlooking walkway in courtyard. Stone steps and planters surrounded by buildings with red overhanging canopies
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Designing for a Disaster: Resiliency in a Changing Climate

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Own Your Design Career

happy Black intern expressing insights with his team members

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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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Aerial view of group working at wood conference table with grey chairs on red floral rug. White paper and tablet in use

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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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a group of smiling young professionals collaborating around a standing height table under a ceiling with diagonal lighting

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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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Overall view of lobby and lounge featuring layered artwork, millwork detailing, and dark stone with white stone and furniture

Integrated Design

A pair of brick fa莽ade buildings, built in 1890, once a warehouse is now AC Hotel Grand Rapids Downtown, a hotel in a bustling downtown
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Adaptive Reuse: Converting Vacant Buildings into Thriving Spaces

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海角社区 designed buildings in a stylized poster series
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Bringing Project Stories to Iconic Graphic Status

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blue tinted wall graphic of cambodian forest with glass display case in the foreground with queueing ropes and tour signs
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Integrating Technologies to Bring History to Life: A Krishna Story

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Featured Collab

1876 Landmark Building Victorian architecture in America with arched windows and sculpted stone moldings and block facade
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In the Details: Women's History at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

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A gray skyscraper with arched windows, columned rotunda, gold cupola, and spire flying a flag on top against a clear blue sky
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Accidentally Wes Anderson Tours Cleveland: Our Highlights

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dark green wall with molding details behind a lamp made from stack of books, framed art print vintage metronome and cast bust
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Accidentally Wes Anderson Tours Colorado: Our Highlights

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Press

In the Media

Aerial view of the stadium lit up at dusk within the downtown skyline.

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I+S Design

I+S Design Highlighted Wichita鈥檚 Riverfront Stadium

I+S Design featured our design for Riverside Stadium in Wichita, Kansas. The stadium satisfies the community鈥檚 entertainment needs and serves as a catalyst for future additions to the Delano District.

Rendering of a college campus showing a bustling outside common area between two brown modern buildings

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Design Middle East

Design Middle East Features 鈥淐ampus 2026鈥� Design

Design Middle East spotlighted 海角社区鈥檚 design for The American University in Cairo鈥檚 鈥淐ampus 2026.鈥� The campus expansion fosters innovation and curiosity on an international scale.

Aerial view of a cruise ship in blue water showing multiple decks with tables and chairs and a green playing court.

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海角社区 Design Magazine

The 海角社区place Sets Sail

Art Bloodworth shares how the workplace can implement some of the design and engagement concepts found on the high seas.

Mass timber open floor plan office space with exposed wood cieling and beams, raw concrete floor, floor to ceiling windows

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Detailed Podcast

Detailed Podcast: A Look Inside T3 ATX Eastside

Bobby Larson joined the Detailed Podcast and discussed the firm鈥檚 latest iteration of the mass timber concept, T3 Eastside in Austin, Texas.

Metro Nashville Campus for Youth Empowerment building, double height windows, wood wrap facade and overhang

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The Tennessean

Rethinking How We Care for Justice-Involved Youth

Principal and Senior Architect Todd Orr, AIA, NCARB, Interior Designer Alexandra Serrales, IIDA, and Interior Designer Karla Iannicelli detail how initiatives like Nashville鈥檚 Youth Campus for Empowerment can help youth by providing services instead of incarceration.

Exterior of Yavapai County Criminal Justice Center. Natural materials, floor to ceiling windows, building entrance

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Dezeen

How Design Can Help Decarcerate the U.S.

"We need to design spaces that can decarcerate America," write Principals and Justice+Civic Planning Leaders Lori Coppenrath and Marayca Lopez, ICPA.

Grey and blue hallway with large flexible walls. Black ceiling with acoustical panels and beam lights

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NewsNation Live

K-12 Education Design Making Students and Schools Safer

Principal and Senior Planner, Judy Hoskens, spoke on NewsNation Live about how our approach to K-12 Education design is creating safer learning environments.

Hotel lobby lounge divided by a jade stone rectangle structure with cozy seating and coffee bar.

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Interior Design Magazine

Inside a Three-Story Oasis of Serenity in Naples

海角社区鈥檚 newly unveiled AC Naples 5th Avenue invites guests into a haven of relaxation.聽

Grey and white sketch of a university football stadium with a red location pointer in the middle of the field

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Sam Houston Athletics

Sam Houston Athletics Names 海角社区, Page, Inc., Architects for Stadium Upgrade Project

From Sam Houston Athletics, 海角社区, in conjunction with Page, Inc. will collaborate to drive the projects at Elliott T. Bowers Stadium. The two design firms will work with SHSU to develop plans for an elevated fan experience, with the cornerstone of the work being a complete overhaul of the stadium鈥檚 press box. 聽

Raymond Kent

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Commercial Integrator

Raymond Kent Inducted as Commercial Integrator AV Living Legend

From Smithsonian to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Principal Raymond Kent shares his story and insights as a new AV Living Legend.

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