There were many programmatic demands for the project, in just 2 ½ acres of space. We felt if we couldn’t deliver shade, for example, the space would be…
A challenge—which we anticipated—was balancing the port’s mission of a “green and environmentally conscious” space with the community’s vision for the park…
For our team, I think that challenging the traditional definition of a playground was a really difficult obstacle to overcome. Traditional playgrounds are incredibly compact…
The AFA campus and buildings are an important part of the SOM portfolio. The original SOM collection of buildings, circa 1954-1962, shares a disciplined and common modernist design…
Both the most difficult as well as most welcome challenge of this project involved the dialogue created between our contemporary architectural insertions and the existing historic concrete…
The challenges we faced were also our goals. First, the School of Pharmacy was created in partnership with the City of Kitchener. Its creation was part of a wider revitalization of the downtown…
Since Academic Building I is the first completed building of the College’s Master Plan, it was important to create opportunities for future campus growth while fulfilling the College’s current…
The biggest challenge was to create a unified architectural identity from what is a binary reality. An independent institution until its merger with Penn State in 2000, the Dickinson School of Law now operates as…
