Recognizing the importance of tenant and visitor attention, we prioritize the inclusion of retail, food and beverage, and cultural amenities into our mixed-use programs. As a result, our commercial mixed-use environments are lively and attractive assets to the community.

We have designed a range of residential buildings and hotels in dense urban settings, oftentimes in highly sensitive historic or planned districts. These projects resolve challenges that extend beyond the satisfaction of their programs to engage the public realm. They have been recognized for architectural excellence and for their ability to enliven the surrounding context and improve the urban fabric of their precincts.

Presentation styles within concert halls and opera houses are evolving: through our extensive and ongoing work with leading institutions, we have developed a deep understanding of the latest trends in the field, and the necessary technical requirements to create spaces that elevate performance and adapt to changes. Central to each of our buildings is the integration of the highest level of natural acoustics and the design of spaces that enhance and enrich the performer-patron experience.

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Our cultural and historical museums are profoundly civic in nature. We create iconic cultural and historical museum architecture that welcomes the community and creates a neighborhood space for formal and informal recreation, contemplation, and gathering.

Our academic art facilities contribute to campus identities and promote the arts as a critical part of the academic experience. Drawing upon our expertise in both education and fine and performing arts typologies, these academic arts facilities integrate cutting-edge trends and technologies across sectors. Central to each of these projects is a focus on spotlighting the process of creating, drawing the campus community into the space, and putting the arts on display.

Our master plans are eminently practical, flexible and buildable, conceived in economically viable increments that can evolve over time to accommodate inevitably changing academic, social, and technical needs and funding sources.

The planning methodology is focused on identifying, understanding and preserving those aspects of the current environment that have been seminal in the support and development of a mature academic culture, and codifying these proven planning criteria as precepts and rules for revision and expansion. By using what worked in the past to expand to the future – coupled with innovative new planning concepts and tactical interventions – Ennead can ensure both the preservation and growth of an institution’s culture.

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Our science and technology museums give form to the spirit and excitement of scientific inquiry, the thrill of exploration, the logic of process, and the value of unexpected discovery. These buildings simultaneously support the needs of administrators, staff, and researchers, improve collections storage and back-of-house spaces, and integrate state-of-the-art technology throughout.

Ennead creates iconic theaters that are designed around the primacy of the performer-patron experience. Our theaters are flexible — they can evolve with changing performance types, serve as multi-purpose venues, and provide public spaces for community engagement.

Accommodating emerging art forms and technologies and responding to the latest in performer-audience engagement trends, our theaters integrate client and stakeholder needs. Whether a traditional proscenium theater or a non-traditional performance space, an Ennead building supports dynamic and immersive performer-patron experiences.

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We design dynamic centers for academic and student life. Each conveys a welcoming identity and creates an enriching environment for student growth and development inside and outside of the classroom. Our educational spaces are driven by the logic of the program and informed by current thinking about academic models and by the conviction that they must promote interaction and collaboration and foster a larger sense of institutional community. They foster successful implementation of new pedagogical techniques, such as the flipped classroom, and technological advances. They establish and strengthen connections between faculty and students by introducing a variety of informal spaces that function as connective tissue, promoting social and academic interchange. They excel at unifying areas of focused program with interdisciplinary and community space where students and teachers come together to exchange ideas.

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Informing our K-12 projects is our extensive higher education experience, which guides us to anticipate the next step in a child’s academic career as we create spaces that will prepare them for that future and optimize each stage of learning along the way. These spaces are sophisticated educational environments that balance technically-advanced teaching spaces with spaces for serendipitous social interaction and community building.

Learn more about Ennead's approach to K-12 schools here.

Our master plans are eminently practical, flexible and buildable, conceived in economically viable increments that can evolve over time to accommodate inevitably changing academic, social, and technical needs and funding sources.

The planning methodology is focused on identifying, understanding and preserving those aspects of the current environment that have been seminal in the support and development of a mature academic culture, and codifying these proven planning criteria as precepts and rules for revision and expansion. By using what worked in the past to expand to the future – coupled with innovative new planning concepts and tactical interventions – Ennead can ensure both the preservation and growth of an institution’s culture.

Learn more about our approach to Master Planning for Education here.

Our academic laboratories provide state-of-the-art research environments where multiple disciplines can collaborate on diverse research projects. We carefully integrate communal spaces within to encourage knowledge sharing and foster a sense of identity for the research community. The design of our laboratories emphasizes flexibility. This adaptability helps institutions thrive long into the future, leaving them well prepared to adjust to changes in technology and research needs.

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Critical to the success of our institutional and academic life science wet lab buildings is an innovative design approach to community and workplace spaces. We focus on creating dynamic and engaging research environments where scientists can collaborate to transform basic research into tangible improvements to human health.

Our engineering laboratories provide state-of-the-art academic research environments where multiple disciplines can interact and collaborate on diverse research projects. Critical to their success is the implementation of carefully designed and scaled communal spaces which create hubs for the sharing of knowledge necessary to support innovation and discovery.

With a focus on accelerating the cycle of discovery, our innovation and data science laboratories provide both academic institutions and commercial lab enterprises with forward-looking facilities that contribute to cutting-edge research that moves ideas and technologies to market at a faster rate.