Vendor vs. Partner: What Superintendents Should Look For in a Design Firm

A while back, I heard a segment on the radio program “This American Life” that appealed to my inner geographer. […]

Virtual Reality, or VR as it’s commonly called, is becoming the new “it” thing for the future of interactive media. […]

How does an individual define what is important? And how does an individual assign value, particularly to objects or space?  For some, the higher the cost of an object, the more valuable it is. For others, the frequency of a space or an object’s use implies importance.

As a landscape architect, I’m constantly considering scale. There’s physical scale – demonstrated through size and surroundings. There’s comfort scale and emotional scale, which both define how attitudes and feelings are regularly impacted. There’s also scales of complexity and challenge, where mental, physical and social discovery can occur in an unknown setting.

It’s not every day that architects are given the opportunity to design for future architects.  Recently, this uniquely challenging and rewarding experience came about for SHP when Bowling Green State University (BGSU) hired us to convert an existing 30,000 square foot warehouse into a state-of-the-art learning environment for the school’s newly-minted architecture program.