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The Break Room: Black History Month 2021
February 23, 2021

Every February, we celebrate Black History Month by honoring African-American heritage, achievements and contributions. This year, we’re spotlighting the tremendous impacts of the Black community on our built environment. We asked our employees to share what this month means to …

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The Break Room: EWeek 2021 Employee Spotlight
February 23, 2021

Happy Engineers Week! EWeek, as it’s also called, is dedicated to spotlighting the engineering profession and calling attention to the many positive contributions engineers have made to our society. Founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), …

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The Break Room: Celebrating Black Architects and Engineers
February 19, 2021

As part of our Black History Month celebration, we are honoring Black professionals who have shaped the diverse fields of our industry. Black architects, designers and engineers are part of a vital, important legacy that has positively impacted the built …

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Faces of Gresham Smith: Asia Allen
February 17, 2021

Name: Asia Allen, AIA, NOMA

Current Title: Architect

Office Location: Nashville, TN

Years at Gresham Smith: 6

 

Meet Asia Allen, an architect in our Nashville Healthcare studio, and our latest Faces of Gresham Smith feature. Asia is passionate about …

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Getting to the Heart of a Client’s Needs: Design Thinking as a Research Method
February 11, 2021

More than just a slew of Post-it notes, Design Thinking is a well-known iterative process centered on stakeholder feedback from a co-design team made up of clients and designers. At Gresham Smith, our Healthcare group has been using Design Thinking …

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An Open Letter to Our Industry’s Digital Content Providers
February 1, 2021

Gresham Smith and our fellow members of the AIA Large Firm Roundtable are committed to help change the racial face of architecture. As a firm that prides itself on genuinely caring for each other, our clients and our communities, we …

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Familiarity Breeds Success: The Importance of Using a Consistent Design Team
February 1, 2021

Topre America Corporation, the North American affiliate of the Japanese-based Topre Corporation, specializes in metal stamping for high-strength automotive components. Our relationship with Topre—pronounced toe-pray—began in 2015. It all started when Gresham Smith was approached to see if we …

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Alternatives to Meet the Moment: Building Rating Systems & COVID-19
January 29, 2021

The advent of COVID-19 has changed expectations about the types of things that people want to have validated in their buildings, with landlords, building managers and end users considering what health and wellness strategies need …

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Reinventing Urban Proximity:
Equity & the 15-Minute City
January 25, 2021

 

“We need to make urban life more pleasant, agile, healthy and flexible. To do so, we need to make sure everyone, and I mean everyone—those living downtown and those living on the fringes—has access to all key services within

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Decentralization, Healthcare
and the 15-Minute City
January 25, 2021

A hot new urbanism topic, the “15-minute city” concept suggests that cities should be designed or redesigned so that daily urban necessities—work, home, food, education, healthcare, parks and so on—are within a 15-minute reach via foot or by bike. In …