“There’s something important that the moment of stopping to listen has in common with the labyrinthine quality of attention-holding architecture: in their own ways, each enacts some kind of interruption, a removal from the sphere of familiarity. Every time I see or hear an unusual bird, time stops, and later I wonder where I was, just as wandering some unexpected secret passageway can feel like dropping out of linear time. Even if brief or momentary, these places and moments are retreats, and like longer retreats, they affect the way we see everyday life when we do come back to it.”

— Jenny Odell, Excerpt from How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

We value architecture that draws us inward while at the same time pushing us outward. Calibrating our gaze to the city and surroundings. Encouraging our interactions with other people, animals, plants and things around us. And expanding our understanding of ourselves and the world. We envision public space design projects as assemblages of familiar ideas, activities and things, that become revitalized and seen anew when they are repositioned in the public realm in unexpected ways. Each design stems from a rigorous investigation into tectonic details that strive to coalesce utility and constructability with accessible cultural references. The unexpected application of the commonplace details (dovetail joints, bolted angle iron, tab and slot sheet construction, wood fencing pickets, gingham fabrics) provides the foundation for a conversation between architects and stakeholders, and ultimately seeks to engage the greater community through the thoughtful application of our disciplinary expertise.