Engage Create Enrich | Summer 2025

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A collage of Ayers Saint Gross projects at Clark University, Eckard College, and the Missouri Botanical Garden

Ayers Saint Gross Wins Architect's Newspaper Best of Practice Award

We are honored to receive the 2025 Best of Practice Award for Northeast Architect (XL Firm) from The Architect's Newspaper, which celebrates companies that are shaping a better, fairer AEC industry. This recognition reflects our commitment to creating places for shared knowledge and culture for mission-driven clients around the world.  

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Semans-Griswold Environmental Hall

Designing with Mass Timber

Mass timber sequesters carbon, which can result in lower embodied carbon emissions than materials like concrete or steel, while contributing to a warm and welcoming natural aesthetic. In a new article, Sustainability Director Allison Wilson details how we’ve used hybrid mass timber systems across a variety of projects, from student housing to academic and cultural spaces.  

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Semans-Griswold Environmental Hall

Comparing Campuses: Belonging

Creating welcoming campus spaces isn't just good design — physical space is a critical component of student success and institutional resilience. Our 2025 Comparing Campuses poster offers practical, research-informed strategies that translate inclusive values into actionable design moves. Each strategy is brought to life through real projects, showing how intentional design can foster community, reduce barriers, and help students thrive. 

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Making Connections: Student Life 2025

Making Connections: Student Life 2025

Our new student life book, “Making Connections,” examines the role student housing plays in creating strong and engaged intellectual communities on college and university campuses. Our student life experts provide case studies, like The Grove at Quinnipiac University, illustrating how to create the right mix of spaces to build community and create a memorable sense of place at all scales.

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A Vibrant Branded Experience at Coppin State University

The Ayers Saint Gross experiential graphic design team worked closely with Coppin State University to design and install new branded graphics across four campus buildings to create bold environments filled with energy and pride. 

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A student lounge space within Bryant University's Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center

Transforming Corporate Offices into Academic Space at Bryant University

Ayers Saint Gross worked closely with Bryant University to reinvent a 250,000-square-foot corporate office building into the Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center (BELC), a state-of-the-art academic facility designed to foster innovation and future-focused learning. By strategically infilling collaboration spaces and creating highly rated learning spaces, the adaptive reuse transforms the building's function in a sustainable, cost-effective way. 

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IN THE NEWS

Principal Shannon Dowling is honored with Learning By Design's ICON in Education Award.

Principal Dan McKelvey retires after 42 years.

Ayers Saint Gross advances our AIA Materials Pledge commitment.

See Purdue's 50-year plan to transform downtown Indianapolis.

UTEP celebrates the opening of a new Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace Center.

Senior Lab Planner Rainey Hufstetler explains definitions and target metrics for various lab types.

 

 

 
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