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Ayers Saint Gross has been designated an Early Professional Friendly Firm by AIA Maryland. This designation celebrates firms that demonstrate a strong commitment to supporting early professionals through meaningful policies, culture, and resources.   

The 163,000-square-foot facility, which opened in November 2024, is the college’s first building to be certified under the LEEDv4 rating system and has exceeded its original LEED Silver requirement.

UTEP is rolling out the orange carpet this week for Texas Western Hall, a 124,725-square-foot, $110 million learning complex that is designed as a central hub for classes and campus life, with flexible rooms, big lecture spaces, and communal study areas wrapped around a rooftop terrace.

2025 was a year of new beginnings and exciting successes for Ayers Saint Gross. As the year comes to a close, we are looking back with gratitude and appreciation on some important moments.

The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center was honored during the Interior Design Magazine's 20th Annual Best of Year Awards, which recognizes standout projects and products across the design industry.

The 75,000-square-foot building brings together nursing and engineering students with Northwell Health clinicians and includes simulated medical surgery and cardiac perfusion labs.

The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden received an honorable mention in the category of cultural projects, while the National Aquarium Harbor Wetland received an honorable mention in the landscape architecture category. 

Our JUST disclosure is one step in our efforts to advance a more inclusive design profession.

The global design program celebrates the most innovative experiential design projects around the world that shape how people engage with the built environment.

The Pearl Innovation District has been included in Business North Carolina's list of the state's best new and rehabbed structures.

Ayers Saint Gross ranked among the top ten student housing architecture firms in the country on the Building Design + Construction 2025 Giants 400 Report. The rankings, which are based on 2024 revenue, listed Ayers Saint Gross as #8 out of 93 firms from around the United States.

Principal Jessica Leonard is quoted about our Comparing Campuses research in this article about designers who are challenging people to live differently with water. ⁠

Both 100 Forge and the Clark University Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design were honored with Excellence in Design Awards, with 100 Forge also winning the night's Grand Design Award.

Ayers Saint Gross ranked among the top ten university architecture firms in the country on the Building Design+Construction 2025 Giants 400 Report. The rankings, which are based on 2024 revenue, listed Ayers Saint Gross as #8 out of 160 firms from around the United States.

This annual list honors architects, engineers, contractors, and real estate developers around the country for their career achievements, passion for the AEC profession, involvement with AEC industry organizations, and service to their communities.

Coppin State University welcomed students back for the fall semester with new design features and signage on some older buildings that aim to refresh the Baltimore campus and improve connections. The design features were created by Ayers Saint Gross, the firm that helped Coppin complete an ambitious master plan that reimagined what the campus would look like by 2033.

Cunniffe Commons at the Ringling College of Art and Design was recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) with an AIA Maryland Excellence in Design Honor Award. The annual awards program recognizes excellence in architectural design by AIA Maryland members and AIA members working in Maryland.

Anchored by the region’s first four-year medical school, designed with Buro Happold as advisers, the Pearl district is a $1.5 billion mixed-use development. The project is the result of a public–private partnership led by Atrium Health and Wexford Science & Technology and includes design by CO Architects and Ayers Saint Gross.

Senior Architect and Planner Amber Wendland has been named to The Daily Record’s 2025 list of Influential Marylanders. Established in 2006, the Influential Marylander program honors individuals for significant contributions and leadership across many fields.

Ayers Saint Gross associate principal Matt Pearson speaks about the design for Bryant University's new upper-level residence hall.

An annual honor given by the ULI Baltimore District Council, the award recognizes individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to the built environment in the Baltimore region by positively impacting the community, promoting sustainable development, and improving the quality of life for residents.

Arizona University's Labriola National American Indian Data Center has been included in American Libraries magazine's 2025 Library Design Showcase. 

The state-of-the-art facility will enable UCF to graduate an additional 150 newly licensed eligible nurses annually to address the critical shortage and will feature the latest immersive modeling and simulation technology.

Our Summer 2025 Engage, Create, Enrich newsletter highlights some of our recent news, thought leadership, and projects.

The terrazzo installation at the center reflects the natural beauty of a woodland creek bed, integrating over 800 waterjet-cut brass leaves and hundreds of hand-cut local river rocks, ranging in diameter from 3 to 12 inches.

After an extraordinary 42-year career in architecture, including 32 years at Ayers Saint Gross, Architect and Principal Dan McKelvey is retiring.

Ayers Saint Gross signed the AIA Materials Pledge to formalize our commitment to support human health, social health and equity, ecosystem health, climate health, and a circular economy through our material specifications.

Associate Principal Elizabeth McLean is featured in an article highlighting the transformation of Arizona State University's Hayden Library.

Ayers Saint Gross earned a first-place prize in the category of XL Northeast Firms.

Comparing Campuses 2024: Water received a Pro First Place Award in the category of Data Visualization and Information Design.

President Joel Fidler is interviewed about his work and the design for Clark University's Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design.

Ayers Saint Gross Principal Shannon Dowling has been honored with an ICON in Education Design Award from Learning by Design Magazine. The award program recognizes educators, architects, designers, and facility professionals whose work is "driven by the belief that improved learning environments lead to better learning."  

Our National Nurses Week newsletter highlights some of our recent and ongoing nursing and health sciences projects.

Partnering with UNC’s School of Nursing and local firm Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, interdisciplinary firm Ayers Saint Gross developed a renewed facility for the school’s top ranked program that will foster the careers of generations of nursing leaders.

We're excited to announce that the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center was named a finalist in the 2025 IIDA Interior Design Competition. This annual competition celebrates outstanding, innovative interior design and interior architecture around the world that honors innovation, creativity, and encourages new ideas and techniques in the design and furnishings of interior spaces.

Moon habitation, space robotics and exotic-material 3D printing are just a few of the technologies that will be developed in the Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace Center (AMAC), a new $80 million research and education facility opened today at The University of Texas at El Paso.

U.S. architecture studio Ayers Saint Gross has created a light-filled visitor center to serve as a gateway for the Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis. Ayers Saint Gross completed the Jack C Taylor Visitor Center, which welcomes one million annual visitors to the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Our Spring 2025 Engage, Create, Enrich newsletter highlights some of our recent and ongoing projects.

The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden has been named to Engineering News-Record's National "Best of the Best" Awards for 2024.

Award-winning interdisciplinary firm Ayers Saint Gross’ design for The University of North Carolina’s Carrington Hall recently broke ground, supporting UNC’s mission to provide a world-class center of teaching, research, and service for nursing students.

At Ayers Saint Gross, we are grateful for our creative and collaborative employee-owners who share their expertise to keep us growing and moving forward. This year, we would like to recognize the following individuals for their well-deserved promotions.  

The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden has been named the winner of the annual Building Museums Symposium's Buildy Award. This prestigious award program, which is hosted by the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) recognizes excellence in museum design and innovation across a diverse range of museum types and sizes. 

Principal Kevin Peterson speaks about how Bryant University's choice to expand through adaptive reuse could serve as a case study for other higher ed institutions.

A public-private partnership between American Campus Communities (ACC) and the University of Utah is set to break ground on a $155 million residence hall project on the university’s campus in Salt Lake City. The six-story community will offer 1,400 beds for first- and second-year students.

Ayers Saint Gross, Kevin Daly Architects, and CMG Landscape Architecture recently completed new housing for UC Berkeley graduate students to help meet pent up demand. xučyun ruwway Graduate Student Apartments has 286 units which can house a total 761 students.

Today, officials from UTEP and Sundt Construction held a "topping out" ceremony to celebrate a major construction milestone for Texas Western Hall, the newest learning complex on campus. The event honored the efforts of Sundt construction workers, engineers and architects from Ayers Saint Gross whose work has contributed to Texas Western Hall.

2024 marked a great year for Ayers Saint Gross, as we continued to work with mission-driven clients to create places for shared knowledge and culture around the world.

The Architect's Newspaper included National Aquarium Harbor Wetland in its roundup of 10 notable landscape architecture projects from 2024.

For more than a decade, Ayers Saint Gross has held periodic Collaboration Day events to help employees build connections, share ideas, and have fun. This year’s event, which took place in October, was the first in-person Collaboration Day since 2019, with employees traveling from around the country to Baltimore for two days of workshops and networking.

The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden is featured as the World Building of the Week on world-architects.com.