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Engage, Create, Enrich Newsletter: Fall/Winter 2025
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Our Fall/Winter 2025 Engage, Create, Enrich newsletter highlights some of our recent news, thought leaderships, and projects, including:
A Visitor Experience Defined by Light and Nature
The Missouri Botanical Garden Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center received SEGD’s Best of Show and Honor Award in Placemaking, a global recognition of excellence in experiential design. In the words of the design jury: “Both epic and restrained at the same time, the care, love, and warmth of this project came through to the whole jury. It takes passion and commitment to make a simple set of ideas come to fruition on a stage this large.” The project also received an Interior Design Magazine’s Best of the Best Award, recognizing it as the best institutional project for the past 20 years.
Campuses and Water: Research Featured in Metropolis
How are universities redefining their waterfronts? In Metropolis, Principal Jessica Leonard shares insights from our Comparing Campuses research on how institutions are building sustainable, mutually beneficial relationships with water.
An Immersive Brand Experience for the University of Arizona
Ayers Saint Gross designed the University of Arizona Scottsdale Center to bring people together. Immersive brand elements and expressive geometry link Tucson and Scottsdale, academics and athletics, and alumni and students to create a dynamic hub that advances the university’s land-grant mission.
Reimaging the Academic Workhorse for Student Success
In a new article, Principal Shannon Dowling explains how outdated academic buildings can be renovated into learning environments that support collaboration, efficiency, and student success. Projects like Arizona State University’s Durham Hall demonstrate this potential, with a renewed façade and modernized learning spaces that create a bright, open setting for teaching, learning, and working.
Finely Crafted and Nature-Connected Housing
At Bryant University, the Puishys Residence Complex embraces its setting as a “house in the woods,” drawing inspiration from the densely forested campus. Mass timber deepens this connection to nature and supports the university’s sustainability goals.
Renovating Georgia Tech’s Historic Halls
The renovation of Smith and Howell Halls at Georgia Tech adds a vibrant commons pavilion and modern amenities while thoughtfully preserving their historic character, part of Ayers Saint Gross’s multi-year plan to revitalize the university’s East Campus housing.
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