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Expert Shannon Dowling explains how comfortable, welcoming, and inclusive learning environments create successful student experiences.

Each year, we look forward to the ACUHO-I conference as an opportunity to see old friends, make new ones, and learn all we can about the latest in student housing and residence life. This year the conference experience is different, but the goals remain the same.

Every elementary school designed to meet LEED standards represents a commitment to a future of green schools for all, including Bancroft Elementary (LEED Gold) in Washington, DC.

A number of small schools like Colby, in Maine, are hoping to improve off-campus amenities by helping to revitalize downtowns through buildings such as The Bill and Joan Alfond Main Street Commons.

This year, Ayers Saint Gross projects were honored with more than 20 design awards, including eight AIA awards for work spanning across the globe.

In the fall of 2018, Colby College opened the Alfond Main Street Commons, realizing Colby’s vision of housing 200 students and faculty-in-residence in the heart of downtown Waterville, Maine. The past year has proven this initiative to be a resounding success.

We are so thrilled that ARCHITECT Magazine ranked Ayers Saint Gross as number 29 on its annual list of the top architecture firms in the country. 

Here are eight things to know about the project, named Gateway to the Garden.

Decades in the envisioning, Semans-Griswold Environmental Hall is dedicated on the Chester River.

The centerpiece of Clemson University’s newest residential community has been lauded for its architectural design excellence.

Every campus wants to do its part to improve town and gown relations. Ayers Saint Gross recently helped Colby College in Waterville, Maine achieve that goal through the Alfond Commons project.

Recently, we celebrated the ribbon cutting for Point225 in Providence, Rhode Island. In attendance were the Governor of RI, Mayor of Providence, the President of Brown University, the I-195 Commission, the design team, and many more.

The SCUP 2019 Annual Conference is being held in Seattle this year, and we are pleased to have an abundance of good news to share in the Emerald City.

We’re looking forward the ACUHO-I 2019 Conference and Expo in Toronto (June 22-25), and hope you’ll visit Ayers Saint Gross at booth 621. This is always an exciting time of year, as we connect with friends old and new, share our experience, and learn all the latest in student housing.

Join us as we congratulate these outstanding individuals on their well-deserved promotions. As an employee-owned firm, our people are our greatest strength. We are thrilled to recognize the following leaders who engage people and places to create designs that enrich our world.

As the first master plan to create a shared vision for VCU and VCU Health System, the ONE VCU master plan identifies common goals and provides an evidence-based vision for VCU’s physical development.

We’re excited to announce that our firm’s JUST Disclosure went live this week, check it out online here. Our firm’s definition of sustainability has always recognized the careful balance between the unique needs of people and ecological systems with the economic realities inherent in each of our projects.

The building is like a jewel at the heart of campus with a stunning work of brick and marble, but it’s the building’s interior that is really grabbing attention.

The University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) is a global effort to accelerate R&D and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital payments.

Amenities within the development include a grocery store, restaurants, and retail to attract tenants to the proposed building.

16Tech is an innovation district in Indianapolis designed to facilitate collaboration in an urban live-work-play-learn environment.

Beresford Pratt was recently selected to be the next AIA Young Architects Regional Director (YARD) for the Mid-Atlantic.

An innovative, high-performing floating wetland prototype, created by Ayers Saint Gross for the National Aquarium, won a 2018 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Honor Award for Research.