Places where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.
From a sustainable workplace in Houston to a new station reconnecting Chicago’s West Side, these projects show how design can respond to community needs with creativity, care, and vision.
From restoring historic libraries to shaping resilient civic spaces, a design leader in our Denmark studio uses the concept of indlevelse (“sympathetic insight”) to weave sustainability and empathy into truly transformative architecture.
While starting from scratch with a new building is often the go-to approach, preserving at least a portion of an existing school for renovation and expansion can be the smarter move.
We’ve released new publications that strengthen our commitment to regenerative design: The Switch List, which presents criteria for material selection in two volumes, one for project partners, the other for product manufacturers; and the Embodied Carbon Benchmarking Report, a rigorous study that identifies the largest contributors to carbon emissions in 89 of our projects.