We Design to Unite People and Elevate the Human Spirit

We are an integrated, multidisciplinary design practice dedicated to creating places and spaces that elevate the human spirit and inspire human endeavors. We are inspired to design buildings and evolve space typologies to provide solutions to societal challenges and create stronger, more vibrant communities.

Leading Transformation in the Industry

Leading Transformation in the Industry

We believe our clients should expect more value in their design engagements. Our efficient and solutions-driven design process reduces the risk for all stakeholders and brings many benefits to our clients. Thoughtful integration of technology into the design process improves it while letting creativity flourish. Broadening the lens on every project to understand the impact on the community and societal well-being facilitates more holistic integrated solutions. And our commitment to making a carbon-positive future a concrete reality addresses the climate crisis head-on.

Embracing Every Opportunity for Innovation

By uniting bright minds and diverse perspectives, we have successfully designed projects at every scale, from community centers to state-of-the-art labs to paradigm-shifting hospitals. Alternative delivery models have created long-term value for our clients and for the users of the buildings and spaces we design. Clients appreciate our data-driven methodology during the early design and planning stages of complex projects, an approach that reduces the traditional and lengthy iterative design cycles of trial and error.

Envisioning a Regenerative Future

Rather than simply focusing on “sustainable design,” which calls for doing no harm, our novel regenerative design framework for projects is helping clients achieve the positive impacts that come from moving beyond basic high-performance design. That means we collaborate with clients to identify renewal-focused impacts and metric-driven targets for carbon, water, nutrients, air, biodiversity, social, and health categories.

We Design to Unite People and Elevate the Human Spirit

We are an integrated, multidisciplinary design practice dedicated to creating places and spaces that elevate the human spirit and inspire human endeavors. We are inspired to design buildings and evolve space typologies to provide solutions to societal challenges and create stronger, more vibrant communities.

We Design to Unite People and Elevate the Human Spirit

We are an integrated, multidisciplinary design practice dedicated to creating places and spaces that elevate the human spirit and inspire human endeavors. We are inspired to design buildings and evolve space typologies to provide solutions to societal challenges and create stronger, more vibrant communities.

Leading Transformation in the Industry

We believe our clients should expect more value in their design engagements. Our efficient and solutions-driven design process reduces the risk for all stakeholders and brings many benefits to our clients. Thoughtful integration of technology into the design process improves it while letting creativity flourish. Broadening the lens on every project to understand the impact on the community and societal well-being facilitates more holistic, integrated solutions. And our commitment to making a carbon-positive future a concrete reality addresses the climate crisis head-on.

Embracing Every Opportunity for Innovation

We have successfully designed projects at every scale by uniting bright minds and diverse perspectives, from community centres to state-of-the-art labs to paradigm-shifting hospitals. Alternative delivery models have created long-term value for our clients and for the users of the buildings and spaces we design. Clients appreciate our data-driven methodology during the early design and planning stages of complex projects, an approach that reduces the traditional and lengthy iterative design cycles of trial and error.

Envisioning a Regenerative Future

Rather than simply focusing on “sustainable design,” which calls for doing no harm, our novel regenerative design framework for projects is helping clients achieve the positive impacts that come from moving beyond basic high-performance design. That means we collaborate with clients to identify renewal-focused impacts and metric-driven targets for carbon, water, nutrients, air, biodiversity, social, and health categories.

Architecture Services

Architectural Design

Through a highly participatory and respectful design process, we create architecture that enriches our day-to-day experiences, that is both proud and humble, stays true to its purpose, and creates a sense of place that is meaningful to the society it serves. In our design studios across the globe, a commitment to ever-greater design excellence sustains our

Branding

Our specialists in brand strategy, graphic design, and communications provide clients with tangible and memorable expressions of their organization’s brand. We begin by identifying the important insights that make an organization unique and then develop compelling visuals and clear communications that distinguish it from a sea of sameness while fostering a sense of ownership by clients, partners, and owners. We work to make sure that all aspects of an organization’s brand identity — its brand promise, logo mark, messaging, online presence, environmental graphics, and physical environment — are an extension of its brand values and are used effectively to build a business.

Building Engineering

Our industry-leading engineers design highly integrated facilities where every aspect is carefully conceived to provide the desired experience within the built environment and perform reliably and efficiently to support the anticipated outcomes. By providing well-informed custom design solutions for our clients, our engineers can adapt rapidly to the unique challenges of a variety of market sectors and building types. We leverage our experience through the use of data and predictive analytics to provide resilient solutions and drive design decisions early in the project delivery process. 

Data-Driven Design

This emerging methodology uses computational design to connect the built environment to predictive analytics and operational design. We combine the art of iterative design and the science of complex analysis with the efficiency of automated workflows. We integrate and optimize formal exploration, high-performance design, planning excellence, and technical execution. By connecting our traditional consulting services to the built environment, and leveraging our expertise in design, strategy, research, and analytics, we’re able to consistently discover novel designs and deliver highly integrated solutions.

Experience Design

Our multidisciplinary team partners with clients to craft meaningful and memorable experiences. Our approach weaves thoughtful user interactions executed across multiple integrated channels with a variety of technological, operational, and spatial considerations. We begin by understanding and often reframing, the problem to go beyond obvious solutions. We use tools like ethnography, the study of analogous industries, journey mapping, and rapid prototyping to connect organizations to the broader context of those they serve. We identify opportunities for critical touchpoints that connect an organization to its customers, both intellectually and emotionally. Our clients include healthcare, manufacturing, real estate, community development, and education businesses.

Infrastructure Design

Our multidisciplinary teams collaborate to design critical civil infrastructure to enable, sustain and enhance communities and commercial services. We leverage the latest technologies to create innovative solutions to improve function, long-term value, and greater resiliency, from new public structures to road and bridge architecture to modernisation projects.

Interior Design

We apply a comprehensive cross-disciplinary design process and studio approach to creating interior environments that support an organization’s mission and elevate the user’s experience. Whether we’re designing a start-up corporate office or a 500-bed acute care facility, we know that the most ambitious goals are achieved by paying attention to the smallest details. Our experienced interior designers balance the increasingly important role of technology with the need to create sustainable, humanistic, and comfortable spaces.

Landscape Architecture

As a fully integrated design firm, our landscape and site designs are holistically linked to the building envelope and engineering systems. We create unique spaces, yet an inextricable part of the whole. We begin with visioning sessions that establish high-level goals for what the design needs to achieve, and then develop a language for spatial quality that responds to user needs. We consider public and private as well as interior and exterior connections that are vital for creating inviting active sites. We focus on the human dimension of design and strive to elevate the expression of the natural environment as it relates to the entire project context.

Lighting Design

Our lighting specialists understand both the art and science of illumination. They’re at the forefront of emerging technologies and daylighting strategies, oftentimes writing design manuals and standards for our clients. Our lighting designs give form and character to spaces while improving visual performance, supporting visual comfort, and engaging occupants. We work to fully integrate lighting with architecture, creating dynamic and exciting spaces across all building types and environments.

Product Design

Product development stems from a need for something better. We collaborate with manufacturers to develop products to meet the needs required by ever-changing markets, whether it’s the need to work more efficiently with a new caregiver workstation or the desire to have textiles that look good and work well. We explore performance, pattern, function, durability, and colour to develop a wide range of award-winning products that meet the emerging needs of our clients in a variety of markets.

Signage & Wayfinding

We create visual stories to help orient people properly and simplify the navigation of complex facilities. Relevant information placed in appropriate locations ensures positive experiences free from frustration and stress for all users. We use the elements of shape, colour, texture, light, and sound to support architecture, interior, and site design, ensuring that wayfinding is an intuitive and integral part of the user’s relationship with our clients’ built environments.