Places where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.

Currents of Chicago, Art on THE MART

Currents of Chicago is a monumental moving image work designed by our branded environments team. Projected across the 2.5-acre facade of Downtown Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, the piece flows like a living map of city—charting its evolution from lakefront landscape to global design capital.

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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.

a library orangery with skylights
Helsingborg City Library
Helsingborg, Sweden
Designer Spotlight
Elif Tinaztepe: Cultural Resonance

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.

University of California San Diego, Pepper Canyon West Student Housing
La Jolla, California
Housing more than 1,300 students, the six-acre project contains ground level retail and amenity spaces designed to create an active, vibrant urban atmosphere.
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With the right attention, old schools can unlock a brighter future anchored in tradition

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.

With its steeply pitched roofs, distinctive chimneys, and gabled windows, the Grandview Heights High School building is beloved by the people in the Columbus area.
“The alumni, current students, and community felt strongly that the building needed to be renovated, and it was really important to maintain the existing iconic facade,” says the school’s superintendent, Andy Culp.
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Announcing updated guidance for material selection and new research on embodied carbon

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.

Maine Medical Center Malone Family Tower
Portland, Maine
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This new sustainability standard is a game-changer for sports and entertainment venues

How can sports stadiums and concert arenas shrink their massive environmental footprints? A groundbreaking new sustainability platform called GOAL—shaped by the lessons of Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena—is helping venues chart a path to net zero.

VIA Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Located just a few meters from the fjord, VIA is a central cross-section and a symbolic focal point for the new modern Oslo. The architecture interprets the surrounding volumes’ characteristics and heights and adds a new and unique architectural expression. The complex is a combination of exclusive shops, high-end offices and parking facilities.
The synergy of design, research, and technology fuels our work to enhance the built environment.