We strongly emphasize sustainability and wellbeing as essential to creating resilient environments and communities.
Our expertise has now extended to a wide variety of projects ranging from hotels to public sports facilities. Our core focus has been workplace innovation and urban regeneration, with a unique balance of both interiors and base building projects. Since then we have grown by leaps and bounds in France, throughout Europe, and into the Middle East, partnering with innovative end users, real estate developers, investors, and proprietors to shape people’s lives and positively impact the places they live and work. On the Champs-Elysées in the heart of Paris, our office was originally established in 1992 to serve US-based clients active in Europe. To our work in the office, and our volunteer efforts out in the community, we bring an openness to meeting new people, exploring new frontiers, and discovering new possibilities. Our expansive approach pulls insight and inspiration from across boundaries of expertise, and is tailored to each client’s vision, values, and needs. Whether we’re turning a world-renowned culinary destination into a sustainability superstar, or helping a studio for animators embrace its higher purpose as a hub of creative inspiration for artists, we believe in the power of design to transform. Since then, we’ve grown our presence and impact across Southern California and beyond, working with university clients, tech companies, law firms, and retailers on interiors, innovation, and new building designs. From the start, we had the opportunity to take on large-scale projects with some of the biggest names in the business: Disney, Warner Bros., and Cartoon Network.
Now located in the historic commercial district of Westwood Village, just a few blocks from our neighbors at UCLA, our office first opened in 1999 to more closely partner with STUDIOS’ notable clients in media and entertainment. Being engaged in building stronger communities is important to us, as designers and architects entrusted with creating enduring impact. Our employees give time, heart and energy to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and DC Public Schools “Architecture in Schools” program, among others. Our pro-bono work for non-profit organizations includes the design of a new building in Washington DC's Navy Yard neighborhood for hands-on education and training using urban, natural, and maritime resources as "living classrooms," designing a dining room facility for the poor and homeless community, and various mentorship programs that support students in envisioning opportunities beyond their difficult circumstances.
We are a DC local Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) committed to ongoing collaboration with local, small, minority- and women-owned businesses. While we come from different backgrounds, we share a spirit of civic and social responsibility. Our ability to take on a wide range of challenges is made possible by our commitment to diversity, and the valuable insights and unique points of view brought to the table. While we’ve earned a reputation as a leader in workplace strategy, our success in base building, innovative jewel-box projects and world-class offices and headquarters speaks to the versatility and ingenuity of our design thinking. Our experience includes many landmark buildings, with project goals ranging from furthering education to providing quality housing to rethinking tomorrow’s office building. Out of a historic, renovated school building in the heart of DC’s Central Business District, we help clients transform their physical environments in ways that shape the future.