Every building is a position.
Selected projects, competitions, and provocations.
We’ve always been drawn to work where the question is as interesting as the answer. Most of the projects on this page started with us: a site we wanted to test, a program we thought was missing, a client we wanted to work with. What connects them is intent. Each one pushed our thinking about how buildings perform, how they sit in a place, and what they ask of the people who experience them.
What We Believe
A building owes something to the place it stands, the people who use it, and the future it will age into. That belief shapes everything we do.
On Design
We pursue proportion, material honesty, and context over spectacle. We think rigor and beauty are the same discipline, not competing interests to be balanced. And we think the measure of a building is whether it still earns its presence twenty years after the renderings are forgotten.
On Place
Every project begins with a community that was there first. The buildings we’re proudest of don’t announce themselves; they make the places around them make more sense. We design for the people who will use a building daily, not the audience that will see it published once.
On Craft
Details matter to us in ways that don’t always show up in a rendering. How a material meets the ground. How light moves through a section across seasons. The distance between a good building and a forgettable one lives in decisions most people won’t consciously notice but will absolutely feel.
On Responsibility
We treat environmental performance as a design discipline, not a compliance exercise. Energy use, embodied carbon, water: these are constraints that make the design better when you engage them from the start. We set targets that exceed industry baselines because the buildings we design today will still be operating decades from now.
On Practice
We don’t subscribe to the idea that great design requires a singular genius. Our best work comes from teams that argue well: people with different expertise, different references, and enough mutual respect to challenge each other without posturing. Credit follows contribution.
Selected Work
The site was here first. The building should prove it belongs.
We care how a threshold feels when you cross it.
Daylight, air, the way a room changes through the day. Those aren’t finishing touches.
The energy a building uses is a design decision, not a problem to solve later.
We design for how a building ages, not just how it opens.