Places where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.
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.
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.
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.
