Innovative Solutions to Over Capacity at Lockland Educational Annex

Every day at SHP, our team collaborates to deliver holistic, dynamic and innovative designs. Therefore, it’s no surprise that we are proud partners with the Imagination Foundation, whose vision is to educate all children to be creative thinkers and doers while encouraging entrepreneurial ideas in the classroom.

Many Americans became more aware of the issue of lead in water after the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. It began in April 2014 after Flint officials changed its source of water from the treated Detroit Water and Sewage Department to the Flint River. The corrosive Flint River water caused lead to leach from the aging piping infrastructure and resulted in high levels of lead in the drinking water.

As a teenager I developed a desire to study and work in the Architecture field, and set up a number of goals to help place me in the position to do so. Searching for schools which would provide the best experience related to my goals, I found the University of Cincinnati. In the University of Cincinnati’s college of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, students are encouraged to integrate experience into their education through a rotation of co-op semesters.

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.

In my experience as an architect, it is not a common occurrence to walk into a crowded room and have everyone immediately stop what they’re doing to announce and celebrate your arrival. However, every Thursday for the past four months, that is exactly the type of greeting I’ve had the pleasure of receiving when visiting Ms. Tiffani Wills’ first and second grade class at Pleasant Ridge Montessori School as a volunteer with the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati’s Design LAB: Learn and Build program.

Bowling Green State University’s new home for the School of Architecture and Environmental Design was featured on the cover of School Construction News in their June 2016 issue. The two photos showcase a collaboration space for the students as well as a flexible conference room area.

Greg Lewis has joined SHP Leading Design as design leader. In his role, Greg will lead design efforts of the firm from concept to detail to construction. He brings extensive knowledge in design management and development, along with experience in K-12, higher education and corporate work, to his new position.

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.

One of the fascinating aspects of our business is that every day presents a new opportunity to change the lives […]