The Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library has been honored by the IIDA Great Plains Chapter with an Interior Design Excellence Award . The vision for the new Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library was to model a traditional town square. The library’s Art …

  The people have spoken! Linn-Mar Community School District’s new intermediate schools – Hazel Point and Boulder Peak – have won an  AIA’s 2021 People’s Choice Award. Each year during the Architecture Month, the American Institute of Architects Iowa …

Thysse’s new office and manufacturing headquarters in Oregon was awarded First Place in the Corporate (over 25,000 sf) category by the International Interior Design Association’s Wisconsin chapter in a virtual event in April. Winning projects are deemed to …

Each year during the Architecture Month, the American Institute of Architects Iowa Chapter celebrates the role the public plays in architecture by allowing the public to reward the designs they love by voting in the annual People’s Choice Award. …

OPN is honored to receive the Masonry Institute of Iowa Appreciation Award for the soon-to-be complete Johnston City Hall. At the core of a the Johnston Town Center Development, the new city hall is community anchor surrounded by public …

Polk County Criminal Courts and Madison Fire Station No. 14 have been honored by the American Institute of Architects Academy of Architecture for Justice with a Justice Facilities Review Award. These projects demonstrate quality of form, functionality, and current architectural …

Jamie Hurd Amphitheater in West Des Moines, was honored with an Excellence in Concrete Award in the Commercial/Industrial Decorative category on Dec. 2, 2020 at the virtual Iowa Better Concrete Conference. The Excellence in Concrete Awards recognize outstanding …

Madison Fire Station 14 has been honored with an  Award of Excellence in Innovative Design, New Construction by the USGBC West North Central Region’s 2020 Community Leadership Award program. Fire Station 14, completed in the last few days of …

The pandemic closed many library’s doors this year, including two designed by OPN within days or weeks of opening for the first time. Despite these challenging times, we’re excited to see three of our projects featured in this …

DTE’s new Central Energy Plant, designed by OPN, on Ford Motor Co.’s Research and Engineering campus in Dearborn, Michigan goes beyond the envelope of modern distributed gas power by integrating heat and thermal energy storage to fulfill Ford’s …