DLR Group is an integrated design firm. Our promise is to elevate the human experience through design. With offices around the globe housing specialized design expertise, your integrated design team is backed by the more than 1,200+ design professionals and the resources of the entire firm. Core areas of design expertise include Civic, Courts, Detention, Energy Services, Federal Markets, Higher Education, Hospitality, Housing, K-12 Education, Museums, Performing Arts, Retail/Mixed-Use, Sports, and Workplace. DLR Group is a passionate advocate for sustainable design. We are an early adopter of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, and an initial signatory to the AIA 2030 Commitment and the China Accord.
Platt/ Whitelaw Architects
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Platt/Whitelaw Architects is a full-service architectural firm, dedicated to public and community based projects.
Our approach to design relies heavily on open communication between all members of the design team, including clients, users and community groups. We strive to create buildings that serve their users and communities now and into the future, creating designs that comply with the rules of function but break free from the ties of predictability.
Project types include educational facilities, libraries, parks and recreation, life safety facilities, justice facilities, administration/operation/maintenance facilities, religious institutions, affordable housing and historic preservation. Platt/Whitelaw’s public agency clients include municipalities, school districts, and local & state agencies.
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obrARCHITECTURE
At obrARCHITECTURE Inc, fostering meaningful relationships with our clients, our projects, and the environment is the defining characteristic that has made us who we are. We are located in the heart of the historic Boulevard Corridor at 2419 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92104 and actively immerse ourselves with the local community.
Founded in 2008 by partners Garrick Oliver, Christopher Bittner, and Anney Rosenthal-Hall, we are a firm that prioritizes culture and character as the touchpoints for our employees, decision making, and design. We believe that each individual’s unique talents make for a dynamic whole that can not only meet but exceed our client’s expectations.
With our eclectic approach to architecture, our firm has the ability to take on a wide variety of project sizes and types and can adjust quickly to changes in programs, budgets, or designs. We bring an exceptional collaborative and artistic approach to every project and feel we have an obligation to assist, inspire and lead our clients in reaching their project goals.
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Benson & Bohl
Founded in 1994, Benson & Bohl Architects has continually expanded its capacity, expertise, and reputation while maintaining and organizational structure that allows the principals, Richard Benson and Randall Bohl, to be personally engaged with every project and every client.
Through enduring associations with clients who share our commitment to design and enhancing the communities in which we work, we have developed a substantial portfolio of major commercial, entertainment, institutional and residential building types throughout California and the West.
HDR
We specialize in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. While we are most well-known for adding beauty and structure to communities through high-performance buildings and smart infrastructure, we provide much more than that. We create an unshakable foundation for progress because our multidisciplinary teams also include scientists, economists, builders, analysts and artists.
JCJ Architecture
JCJ Architecture is a diverse planning, architecture and interior design practice that offers comprehensive services to clients in the public and private sector. Our engaged design process brings together our experience as professionals with a methodology of active and alert advocacy. Balancing owner/client goals, functional objectives and physical context alongside project scope, constraints and opportunities, we strive to resolve and manifest project qualities into built form.
he firm's portfolio of experience, comprehensive services and collective knowledge are captured in two overall categories – commercial (gaming, entertainment, hospitality, hotel, retail, workplace) and institutional (K12 education, higher education, civic, community, arts & culture, public safety/justice).
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Safdie Rabines Architects
Established by the husband-and-wife team of Taal Safdie and Ricardo Rabines, Safdie Rabines Architects strives for design solutions that are sensitive to the natural and built context of each project while responding to the specific needs of its clients. The firm’s wide range of experience includes the design of residential and institutional buildings, bridge and infrastructure projects, and large urban master plans.
M.W Steele Group
As an award-winning architecture & planning firm, M.W. Steele Group’s portfolio reflects a vision built upon our clients’ needs and our extensive experience. With projects based around the world, we are best known for the contextual quality of our work and the level of sensitivity to site evident in each completed project. We are also recognized for design and planning that is simultaneously innovative and based in reality. Our staff of professionals includes architects, certified planners, and urban designers.
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Sillman Wright Architects
Since 1976, Sillman Wright Architects has provided quality architectural services in Southern California. Sillman Wright Architects is a collaborative, fully integrated firm ensuring a client focused, holistic approach. Sillman Wright has a depth of experience in a diverse range of projects, such as services in civic architecture, design-build, education, healthcare, and more.
Studio E Architecture
Based in San Diego, California, the firm works throughout the Southwestern United States and has built a varied body of work ranging from private residences to affordable housing, mixed-use, civic, and urban planning projects. The firm has received numerous design awards, including three National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards. The California Council of the American Institute of Architects named Studio E one of California's Emerging Talents in 1999. Studio E's collaborative approach extends to its successful use of client and community workshops in the design process. The work of the office is noted for its understanding of place, its authenticity and its inventive optimism.
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HMC Architects
HMC Architects designs solutions that work, wow, and withstand. We partner with healthcare, education, and civic clients to design buildings that promote healing, inspire learning, and create vibrant communities. Whether it’s a hospital, elementary school, student union, or community center, our empowered teams are experts when it comes to delivering successful projects and creating meaningful spaces.
COAR Design Group
COAR is an abbreviation of the term: COmmunity ARchitects. Community is at the heart of everything we do and every project we complete. Communities can be small or large but they’re never singular. They tend to be layered, complex, and diverse. More importantly, they reflect the groups of individuals that are integrated into each and every project: The end users, stakeholders, patrons, partners, designers, builders, and residents. At COAR Design Group, we create spaces that bring people together and serve the community.
With 30 years of experience (previously Jeff Katz Architecture) ranging from public safety and community centers to animal care and entertainment facilities, COAR Design Group has the knowledge and skill to fulfill your project’s needs and exceed your expectations.
STANTEC
The Stantec community unites approximately 22,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents. Our work—engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, construction services, project management, and project economics, from initial project concept and planning through to design, construction, commissioning, maintenance, decommissioning, and remediation—begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. With a long-term commitment to the people and places we serve, Stantec has the unique ability to connect to projects on a personal level and advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.
Steinberg Hart
For 65 years, Steinberg Hart has been shaping environments and creating inspiring places through an idea driven, results-oriented approach to design.
Our team of architects, designers, planners and sustainability experts share the belief that design can create profound and unexpected connections between people and place. With a focus in education, residential, arts, urban mixed-use, hospitality, civic, and commercial office projects, our full-service architecture firm creates environments that sculpt space to shape lives in subtle and empowering ways.
DAHLIN Group Architecture
DAHLIN is a global, diverse architecture and planning practice of 150+ multicultural professionals working with developers, municipalities and private clients.
With 6 offices worldwide, DAHLIN is committed to collaborating to craft sustainable communities and urban environments. Our design solutions are innovative, real and achievable. Our people are passionate about creating places that promote human fulfillment and well-being.
Cannon Design
As an integrated, global design firm, we leverage the heart, passion and intelligence of our more than 1,000 creative thinkers to develop solutions for some of the greatest challenges facing our clients and society. Whether designing for equity in education, accessible healthcare, inclusive communities, new scientific discoveries or the “next big idea” in business, we partner with organizations to help them improve human life.
