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Office Conversions and Repurposed Buildings

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The real estate office market continues to reel from the behavioral changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. Social distancing and isolation led to remote working habits such that approximately 40% of the workforce currently relies on remote or hybrid work models of some sort. This leads to increased office...

Prominence & Modera Old Ivy: Humanizing Pedestrian-Hostile Streetscapes

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="5283" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Prominence and Old Ivy in Buckhead, Georgia form a new mixed-use development that performs two rare feats of urbanism in a difficult context; it is an ensemble of buildings constructed over time that makes a place, and it activates and humanizes a pedestrian-hostile streetscape on the corner of...

Duke Energy: From Isolated Fortress to Integrated Placemaking Attraction

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="5347" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Duke Energy had announced plans to consolidate their office space in Charlotte in 2018. Although initially interested in updating their aging office facilities and reducing their total office footprint by consolidating space in a new building, the move to smaller office footprint would appear to have been well...

Modern on M: Urban 5+2 Boxy Buildings

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3882" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Waterfront Town Center was developed in the late 1950s as a part of a larger Washington DC Urban Redevelopment program for the Southwest quadrant of the city. It was designed by a young I.M. Pei and was illustrative of its time. In architectural terms a laudable example of...

SK+I Journal, Vol 1: Connected Environments

One key driver shaping interior design trends is a deep need for meaningful relationships. Immersed in truncated twitter feeds and an unending barrage of media, individuals and even communities are increasingly isolated and are naturally gravitating toward authentic and meaningful interaction. They are actively seeking emotional connections with their world....