Perkins + will (205)
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Profiles
Specify Hot List: Perkins&Will, D.C.
June 1, 2022 Specify Hot List: Perkins&Will, D.C. The firm’s Washington, D.C., team is the first of its U.S. studios set to eliminate embodied carbon in commercial interiors by 2030. By: Nigel F. Maynard Photography: Jared Soares Actions speak louder than words. That’s one reason why the Washington, D …
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Perkins&Will, Building Transparency, and C Change Labs Announce Plans to Develop a Low-Carbon Specification Tool
Courtesy Perkins&Will, C Change Labs, and Building Transparency The CleanBC Building Innovation Fund (CBBIF) from the Canadian province of British Columbia announced that it will give a $460,000 grant to architecture firm Perkins&Will, C Change Labs, and Building Transparency Canada to develop a tool that allows architects and designers to access up …
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Forest for the Trees: Perkins+Will Brings Biophilic Design to an Atlanta Office
… was prompted by Interface's need to centralize its Georgia workforce from three locations to one. The company selected a circa-1960s office building and embarked with Perkins+Will to create a biophilic workplace environment, i.e. one that would mimic the natural world to benefit human health and productivity. Biophilic design, says Perkins+Will …
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Perkins+Will's Director of Interior Design on Creating Agile Workplaces
Perkins+Will’s New York head of interiors, Brent Capron. Courtesy Perkins + Will As Perkins+Will’s New York director of interior design, Brent Capron leads creative processes behind the firm’s workplace projects and cultivates client relationships across the Northeast. The Colorado native has over 20 years of design experience in corporate interiors on …
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Perkins+Will: Metropolis Article on Resiliency is "a Polemic and Counter to Collective Experience in Practice"
The Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, located in Boston and designed by Perkins+Will, was built 2.5 feet above the site's 500 year floodplain to avoid flooding. Courtesy Anton Grassl/ ESTO The following response was penned by Janice Barnes, Perkins+Will's global resilience director, in response to the recent Metropolis article "Resiliency” Has Lost …
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Envision Design Founder Ken Wilson Breaks Down Perkins + Will Acquisition
It seems nary a week (or two) goes by without news of yet another “strategic partnership” or acquisition involving Perkins + Will (P+W). Last week brought news that Envision Design—the Washington, D.C.-based architecture firm founded by Ken Wilson and Diana Horvat—had joined the P+W fold. For 13 years, Envision carved …
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Tulane, Perkins+Will Join Forces to Research "Healthcare Villages"
… program at Tulane Architecture arrived at an opportune time and provided a different way to contribute. I am the national research knowledge manager for healthcare sustainability for Perkins+Will, a global interdisciplinary design firm where I focus exclusively on reducing the resource impacts of the built environment on human and ecological health. In this role …
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Los Angeles Architects and Leaders Take on Their City’s Homeless Crisis
… a 14-story permanent supportive housing development planned for L.A.’s Skid Row neighborhood, will be one of the first residential buildings in the country to utilize a mass timber frame system. The modular structure, made up of a collection of varied vertical “bundles,” will also feature eight outdoor roof terraces. COURTESY MICHAEL MALTZAN