We have practiced architecture for more than five decades. Enough time to garner a wide range of project experience and to confirm our belief in providing clients with inspired design and enduring value as a formula for success.

We are Midwesterners by birth or life’s gravitational pull. We are practical, diligent, hard working and our stewardship of clients’ budgets comes innately from knowing the value of money.

We are passionate about great design but architecture is equally about problem-solving. How can design help improve fire crews’ turnout time? How can senior care design balance resident needs and owners’ operational and financial considerations? How can design deliver the very best value for a client’s project investment? Such challenges are what drive us.

We have a culture of service. That means being responsive to our clients and ensuring our work always advances their goals and needs.

We continue to shape the skyline across a sizable swath of the places where we work. Among our iconic projects are the Gamber Center (Lee’s Summit), Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics on Broadway (Kansas City), Scruggs Student Center Expansion at Lincoln University (Jefferson City) and the Fire Department Headquarters in Pittsburg, Kan.

Listening is at the center of everything we do.

We love serving clients in the metro Kansas City communities we call home but lately, our talents have also taken us to Sioux Falls and farther across the Great Plains, south to Owasso, Okla., and points beyond.

While we have completed a very diversified portfolio of design projects, we have worked diligently for three decades to build what is now one of the most highly regarded public safety design practices spanning the central and western U.S.

We are design innovators. We approach public safety architecture with the firm belief that good facility design is integral to addressing a number of the challenges facing today’s first responders. Our team and our engineering partners are delivering design breakthroughs focused on mitigating workplace health risks and operational challenges.

When you have been in the architecture business for half a century, it’s easy to become nostalgic and take comfort in the past. We keep our eyes on the horizon.