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Engage, Create, Enrich Newsletter: Summer 2025

Our Summer 2025 Engage, Create, Enrich newsletter highlights some of our recent news, thought leadership, and projects, including:Ayers Saint Gross wins an Architect’s Newspaper Best of Practice AwardSustainability Director Allison Wilson‘s recent article on “Designing with Mass Timber”Our 2025 Comparing Campuses poster on “Spaces for Belonging” The Grove at Quinnipiac UniversityOur 2025 Student Life book on “Making…
8.05.25 / Announcements
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Missouri Terrazzo Honored for Missouri Botanical Garden Project

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.
7.29.25 / Press
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Dan McKelvey, AIA, Retires after 42-Year Career

After an extraordinary 42-year career in architecture, including 32 years at Ayers Saint Gross, Architect and Principal Dan McKelvey is retiring.
7.23.25 / Announcements
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Advancing our Materials Pledge Commitment

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.
7.14.25 / Announcements
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Landscape Architecture Magazine: TRUEFORM Tempers the Heat at Arizona State

Associate Principal Elizabeth McLean is featured in an article highlighting the transformation of Arizona State University's Hayden Library.
7.03.25 / Press
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Ayers Saint Gross wins Architect’s Newspaper Best of Practice Award

Ayers Saint Gross earned a first-place prize in the category of XL Northeast Firms.
6.27.25 / Awards
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Comparing Campuses Poster Recognized with 2025 PRINT Award

Comparing Campuses 2024: Water received a Pro First Place Award in the category of Data Visualization and Information Design.
6.25.25 / Awards
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Inside Clark University’s New Hub for Innovation and Creativity

President Joel Fidler is interviewed about his work and the design for Clark University's Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design.
6.24.25 / Press
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Shannon Dowling Recognized with ICON in Education Award

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."  
6.11.25 / Announcements

Purdue trustees adopt 50-year master plan for the university’s 28-acre Indy campus

Ayers Saint Gross principal Jessica Leonard shares how having a framework and a road map to help Purdue University make decisions over 50 years for its Indianapolis campus will support the university mission and attract and retain students, faculty and staff.
6.07.25 / Press

See Purdue’s 50-year plan to transform downtown Indianapolis campus with high-rises

Over the next 50 years, Purdue University plans to transform its downtown Indianapolis campus into an urban hub with high-rise buildings hosting up to 15,000 students, according to a new master plan.
6.06.25 / Press

Architectural Digest: These 61 Bucket Ideas are Must-Dos for Design Lovers

Ayers Saint Gross President Joel Fidler and Principal Luanne Greene are included in an Architectural Digest article that asked design leaders to share their design bucket list destinations.
5.19.25 / Press
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Celebrating National Nurses Week

Our National Nurses Week newsletter highlights some of our recent and ongoing nursing and health sciences projects.
5.13.25 / Announcements
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A look at UNC’s future building improvements for Carrington Hall

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.
4.28.25 / Press
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Ayers Saint Gross Named a Finalist in the 51st Annual IIDA Interior Design Competition

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.
4.24.25 / Awards
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UTEP Celebrates Opening of Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace Center

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.
4.15.25 / Press
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Dezeen: Ayers Saint Gross embeds plant motifs in Missouri Botanical Garden visitor centre

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.
4.08.25 / Press
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Engage, Create, Enrich Newsletter: Spring 2025

Our Spring 2025 Engage, Create, Enrich newsletter highlights some of our recent and ongoing projects.
3.27.25
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Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center Named to ENR National’s ‘Best of the Best’

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.
3.20.25 / Press
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Ayers Saint Gross unveils design for renewal of UNC’s Carrington Hall

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.
3.03.25 / Press
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Jobs Well Done: Announcing 2025 Promotions

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.  
2.07.25 / Announcements
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Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center Recognized with 2025 Buildy Award

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. 
2.03.25 / Awards
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The Vision, Unveiled: How Bryant transformed a 250,000-square-foot office building into cutting-edge Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center

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.
2.02.25 / Press
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American Campus Communities, University of Utah to Break Ground on $155 Million Residence Hall Project

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.
1.31.25 / Press
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Architect’s Newspaper: Ayers Saint Gross, Kevin Daly Architects, and CMG complete UC Berkeley’s xucyun ruwway Graduate Student Apartments

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.
1.23.25 / Press
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UTEP Celebrates “Topping Out” for New Learning Complex, Texas Western Hall

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.
1.23.25 / Press

Ayers Saint Gross Leaders Invited to Prestigious Award Juries

At Ayers Saint Gross, we bring together deep expertise across multiple disciplines to express beauty and innovation. That’s why we’re proud to share that four of our firm leaders, representing a variety of our interdisciplinary work, will serve on prestigious award juries in the coming year.
1.14.25 / Announcements
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Looking Back on 2024

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.
1.08.25 / Announcements
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Architect’s Newspaper: The landscape projects and news stories that stood out in 2024

The Architect's Newspaper included National Aquarium Harbor Wetland in its roundup of 10 notable landscape architecture projects from 2024.
12.30.24 / Press
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Better Together: Collaboration Day 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.
12.11.24 / Announcements
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World Building of the Week: Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center

The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden is featured as the World Building of the Week on world-architects.com.
12.09.24
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ASLA’s The Dirt: Floating Wetlands Bring Nature Back to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

“Harbor Wetland is an example of how to marry science and art,” said Amelle Schultz, ASLA, PLA, a principal and landscape architect with Ayers Saint Gross. “It leaves no doubt that landscape architecture is a STEM discipline.”
11.21.24 / Press
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Large Baltimore architecture firm taps new president

Veteran architect Joel Fidler was recently named the new president of the city-based firm, replacing Luanne Greene, who has held the role since 2016. Fidler, 49, had been a principal and vice president at Ayers Saint Gross prior to his promotion. He will begin as president on Jan. 1.
11.13.24 / Press
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Joel Fidler to be Next President of Ayers Saint Gross

Joel Fidler, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, has been named the new president of interdisciplinary design firm Ayers Saint Gross. Having served as a principal and vice president, and with more than 25 years of experience leading architectural projects, Joel will continue the firm’s long tradition of design excellence for mission-driven clients around the world.  
11.13.24 / Announcements
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Metropolis: This Botanical Garden’s New Addition Is as Subtle as Light and Shadow

As the front door to one of the nation’s oldest botanical gardens in continuous operation, the new Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s most important job was to get out of the way and let the 79-acre campus filled with historic architecture and some of the rarest plants on the planet “do the talking.”
10.31.24 / Press
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Azure Magazine: A Wetland Landscape Revives the Baltimore Harbour

Opened in August, the 929-square-metre Harbor Wetland artfully extends the museum's program into the public realm, creating a community space that doubles as a free outdoor exhibition.
10.24.24 / Press
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Ayers Saint Gross Projects Honored with AIA Baltimore Excellence in Design Awards

Two Ayers Saint Gross projects received 2024 Excellence in Design Awards, with the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center earning the top award of the year.
10.22.24 / Awards
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Baltimore Business Journal: High-profile Baltimore architect to retire after four decades

Veteran architect Adam Gross will retire this fall after a 40-year career at Ayers Saint Gross. Gross joined the firm in 1984 and has helped it grow from eight employees to more than 190 today.
9.26.24 / Press

University of Baltimore Academic Center would be demolished and replaced with smaller structure under new master plan

A new master plan for the University of Baltimore "aligns the physical campus more closely with the institution's mission, vision, and values."
9.25.24 / Press
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Celebrating Adam Gross and a 40-Year Legacy

After four decades of groundbreaking work and forward-thinking design, Principal Adam Gross, FAIA, will retire from Ayers Saint Gross this fall. Since his earliest days with the firm, Adam has served as a creative leader, bringing endless energy and commitment to his work.
9.25.24 / Announcements
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Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center wins AIA Maryland Excellence in Design Honor Award

The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center, which opened in 2023, represents a bold, transformative vision for the Missouri Botanical Garden and its mission.
9.20.24 / Awards
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Chronicle of Higher Education: Campus Housing for Tomorrow

Ayers Saint Gross principals Dennis Lynch and Cooper Melton and Sustainability Director Allison Wilson were all recently featured in a special report from The Chronicle of Higher Education titled, “Campus Housing for Tomorrow: How to Plan for Student and Institutional Success.”
9.18.24 / Press
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National Aquarium Harbor Wetland Makes Headlines Around the World

National Aquarium Harbor Wetland, a floating wetland exhibit that serves as a model for sustainable urban development, has been featured in design outlets around the world, including The Architect's Newspaper, Domus, and Gooood.
9.13.24 / Press

University of Utah trustees greenlight public-private student housing project

The University of Utah took another significant step Tuesday to transition what has historically been a commuter campus to a residential campus. The university’s trustees voted to authorize the university to enter a public-private partnership to create 1,450 additional beds of student housing on campus.
9.10.24 / Press

ArchDaily: KPF Designs 2045 Master Plan for the University of Birmingham Campus in United Kingdom

Developed in collaboration with Ayers Saint Gross, the 2045 Campus Vision leverages data on building conditions, operational costs, environmental performance, and space utilization.
9.05.24 / Press
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Building Design + Construction: Baltimore’s National Aquarium opens 10,000-sf floating wetland

Building Design + Construction wrote about the National Aquarium Harbor Wetland, giving credit to Ayers Saint Gross as the designer. Ayers Saint Gross worked with the National Aquarium to design the sustainable, high-performing floating wetland intended to restore natural habitats and improve biodiversity and water quality.
8.21.24 / Press
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TXST hosts groundbreaking for STEM classroom building

Texas State University hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Aug. 16, to mark the start of construction on the university’s new STEM classroom building. The 168,000-square-foot building is expected to be operational by fall 2026.
8.16.24 / Press
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Bloomberg: A Floating Island in Baltimore Raises Hope for a Waterfront Revival

National Aquarium Harbor Wetland was featured in Bloomberg's City Lab. Designed by Baltimore-based architecture firm Ayers Saint Gross, the floating structure is among the largest and most ambitious efforts to clean up urban waterways by tapping the filtering properties of native shrubs and grasses.
8.15.24 / Press
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New on-campus graduate housing opens to Emory students

Dubbed “The Ridge,” this housing integrates two primary needs highlighted during the university’s master planning: a lack of graduate housing on Emory’s core campus and a space for Emory graduate students to gather and support community building.
8.14.24 / Press
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Architect’s Newspaper: On Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, a new floating wetland by Ayers Saint Gross opens at the National Aquarium

Principal Amelle Schultz spoke to Architect's Newspaper about the opening of National Aquarium Harbor Wetland. “We think this approach can be replicated at many other compromised waterfronts to improve environmental health in urban conditions. It’s a great way of connecting people to water, and educating the public about water and ecological issues.”
8.07.24 / Press
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Earl Purdue, AIA, Retires After 36 years

Earl Purdue, longtime leader of our health sciences studio, is retiring from the firm after more than three decades of service.
6.18.24 / Announcements
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Why Some Innovation Districts Flourish While Others Fail

Innovation districts can attract and develop talent, nurture startups, create economic opportunities, and address societal challenges in health, climate, and equity. Ayers Saint Gross planned districts, including The Pearl and Cortex Innovation Community, are included in this report on how innovation districts can be successful.
6.03.24 / Press
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Archinect: Ayers Saint Gross designs new Charlotte innovation district

Ayers Saint Gross has shared renderings of its new design in Charlotte, NC. The project is part of The Pearl; a planned innovation district that will total three million square feet at its full buildout and is intended to aid the Wake Forest School of Medicine’s expansion and become a new civic hub for Charlotte.
5.30.24 / Press
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Celebrating National Nurses Week

Our National Nurses Week newsletter highlights some of our recent and ongoing nursing and health sciences projects at the University of Central Florida, Duke University, Hofstra University, and more.
5.10.24 / Announcements
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Karen Bastidas Wins IIDA MAC Emerging Leader Champion Award

Ayers Saint Gross interior designer Karen Bastidas, an associate in our interior design studio, was recognized as an IIDA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Emerging Leader Champion during the chapter's Premiere Design Awards event on May 1.
5.08.24 / Announcements
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Engage, Create, Enrich Newsletter: Spring 2024

Our Spring 2024 Engage, Create, Enrich newsletter highlights some of our recent and ongoing projects, including The Howard R. Levine Center for Education, 100 Forge, and Cunniffe Commons at the Ringling College of Art and Design.
5.01.24 / Announcements
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Laura Wheaton Wins AIA Young Architects Award

Ayers Saint Gross architect and planner Laura Wheaton has been awarded a 2024 AIA Young Architects Award, which honors individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the architecture profession early in their careers.
4.02.24 / Awards
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Ayers Saint Gross Projects Honored with IIDA Southwest Design Awards

The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden was named Best in Show, the highest recognition of the night, and earned a design excellence award. Frisco Landing at the University of North Texas at Frisco received an award of merit.
4.01.24 / Awards
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Belonging and Inclusion: An Interview with Shannon Dowling

Principal Shannon Dowling speaks to associate architect Caitlin Brady about how higher education design can promote belonging on campus for both an article and Architectette podcast episode.
3.08.24 / Press

Housing, Athletic Village, and Riverfront Projects? BSU Master Plan Process Takes Off

Boise State’s future for the next few years could soon come into focus. The university has hired Ayers Saint Gross and The Land Group to help craft its updated master plan. Ayers Saint Gross also created the previous master plan in 2015, according to ASG Project Manager Carolyn Krall.
2.28.24 / Press
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