United Township High School‘s new student life center will be featured at the Illinois Association of School Boards annual conference from Nov. 22 to 24 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. The 32,000-square-foot addition and renovation, completed for …

Vicki Hyland, OPN’s K-12 Specialist and Planner, recently sat down with Cedar Rapids Community School District’s podcast, SKOOLD!, to share OPN’s approach to designing K-12 schools for “tomorrow’s learner,” a term that plays off of Cedar Rapids Community …

Over the past eight years, billions of square feet of projects have reported design performance data in an effort to evolve the industry to meet zero carbon goals by 2030. Research on these buildings and the technologies incorporated …

Universal Design principles — the design and composition of an environment so that it can be accessed, understood, and used to the greatest extent possible by all people regardless of their age, size, ability, or disability — shaped …

Last week at the AIA Convention in Vegas OPN Sustainability Director, Tate Walker, presented ‘The Top Ten ways to exceed client expectations’. “During the last decade, I’ve used the COTE® Top Ten Measures of Design to frame and push projects further …

This year’s OPN Masterclass at Iowa State University — Graphic Anatomy of the Modern Epic: Case Study of Farming Iowa — was an intensive, four-day drawing workshop led by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Principal of Tokyo-based architecture firm Atelier Bow-Wow. …

There is awe in the experience of watching a building come to life exactly as you imagined it, says OPN Associate Principal Danielle Hermann. She felt that sense of awe in November 2018, when the Krause Gateway Center …

OPN Architects Sustainability Director Tate Walker will sit on a panel discussion with seven co-authors of The COTE Top Ten Toolkit at the Living Future unConference 2019  from April 30 to May 3, 2019, in Seattle. The Living Future unConference is …

The COTE Top Ten is more accessible to every project now, thanks to a two-year-long effort co-led by OPN’s Sustainability Director Tate Walker. The COTE Top Ten Toolkit was devised and spearheaded by Walker, AIA, along with with Corey …

Home. It haunts and eludes us. A definition of home that describes a physical place with four walls and a roof — like a house or an apartment — fails to capture the breadth and meaning of that tiny, …