Our award-winning design firm combines architecture, planning, urban design, historic preservation, and real estate development to spark urban regeneration, by increasing livability, well-being, and vitality for the future.
Areas of Practice
Architecture
Integrating function and affordability through design with social, economic, and environmental benefits, to create buildings and spaces of enduring value.
Preservation
Maximizing the advantages of historic renovation projects, through design for viable new uses, qualifying for investment tax credits, growing sustainable revenues, building community resilience.
Urban Design
Improving places where people live, learn, work, and grow, through community participation and strategic design solutions.
Development
Using architecture, planning, preservation and real estate solutions to reinvent older places, optimize project benefits, and improve financial returns.
Case Studies
Conversations
Stevens-Smith on African-American Heritage Tours
Our Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Historic Site (nearly demolished 12 years ago as the convention center was being planned) is now featured in “Central Penn Parent” as a focal point in... READ MORE
Markets: Focal Points of Living Cities and Towns
We pay attention to public markets and farmers markets everywhere we go, because markets are usually core components and bellwethers of the most livable communities. Where markets are active, residents can usually find... READ MORE