Mindful | BNIM Monthly

November - December 2025

Happy Holidays from BNIM!

This holiday season, we’re celebrating and reflecting on a year of wonderful projects and partnerships at BNIM. Everything we do is the result of an amazing collective of people working together each day to create meaningful places where people and nature thrive.

We each bring different ideas, voices, perspectives, and talents to the table, yet at the heart of it all, we’re kindred spirits — finding purpose in good design and caring for the world around us and the communities we serve. 

To our clients, collaborators, friends, and family, we wish you a joyful holiday season!

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The sacred and welcoming new addition to Congregation Beth Shalom is featured in Architectural Record's December issue on Spiritual Buildings.

Congregation Beth Shalom collaborated with design partners Preston Scott Cohen and BNIM (Architect of Record) on a new synagogue addition, thoughtfully envisioning and designing a dedicated space for worship and community. The building’s dynamic geometry is designed as an expression of the Torah scrolls, enveloping the Congregation in a daylight-filled, oval-shaped sanctuary that creates a sacred and welcoming space to serve as the heart of the Congregation.

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Honored with a 2025 AN Best of Design Award, American Architecture Award, and International Architecture Award, LifeServe Blood Center Headquarters supports the organization's vital work and mission to save lives.

Serving more than 170 hospitals across the Midwest region, LifeServe Blood Center worked with BNIM to envision a new headquarters that would enhance organizational function, address the complexities of blood movement and processing, and establish a welcoming presence in Johnston, IA, both connecting with community and encouraging blood donation as a lifelong habit. 

BNIM is honored that LifeServe Blood Center Headquarters has been recognized with the following recent awards:

2025 AN Best of Design Award
2025 International Architecture Award
2025 American Architecture Award
2025 Good Green Award

 

Vesterheim Commons is the recipient of the 2025 American Architecture Award, bringing community members together to experience Norwegian-American traditions, stories, and folk art.

Vesterheim Commons, designed by Snøhetta and BNIM (Architect of Record), creates a warm and inviting new entry sequence that welcomes visitors to explore the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum’s historic campus. The addition provides impactful space for public folk art programming, events, lectures, and the traveling Annual National Norwegian Folk Art Exhibition. 

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NOTE: Our offices will be closed between December 22nd and January 1st. If you need to reach us about your project, please contact your primary team member for assistance. 

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