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Featured in Architectural Record, the new Princeton University Meadows Apartments is tailored to meet the needs of today’s graduate students within a high-performing development that supports the university’s goals of carbon neutrality by 2046. Home to 604 graduate students, the vibrant residential community sits at the gateway to the new Meadows campus. The “three-building complex—organized around loose courtyards and boasting visually rhythmic facades—embodies a longtime priority of Princeton to provide affordable graduate housing.” Fingering out towards the verdant Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, the buildings thoughtfully intersperse 13 different apartment configurations that reflect the diverse needs of today’s students, mixing up the unit types to encourage interaction across groups. At Princeton and across the nation, affordability and community-building are among the top priorities for graduate students, explains Mithun partner Bill LaPatra. “Many are lonely, many are trying to figure out how to make friends, and many are worrying about putting a meal on the table and paying rent.” Gathering spaces, biophilic design principles and healthy materials are woven throughout to support occupant well-being. With a high-performance envelope and building systems, Meadows Apartments is one of the largest Passive House certified projects in the country. Read the full article, written by David Sokol: https://lnkd.in/gmgwC4h5 Developer and P3 team leader: American Campus Communities Architecture and interior design: Mithun Landscape architect: James Corner Field Operations Sustainability: Thornton Tomasetti Structural: IMEG Civil: VHB MEP: Bala Consulting Engineers Building envelope and PHIUS rater: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) General contractor: Hunter Roberts Construction Group Photographer: Chris Cooper / ArchExplorer - Image Agency

Mithun is an interdisciplinary collaborative of designers, constantly evolving to address the critical challenges of our future. To mark our 75th anniversary, we decided to lean into this ethos by looking 75 years into the future. Design 2099 honors our firm legacy with an eye to the turn of the next century — imagining the range of possibilities for how our world may evolve. We brought our entire team together with a two-day event that launched with a powerful keynote by Leonard Forsman, chairman of the Suquamish Tribe, to root our journey in the scale of time immemorial. Futurist and facilitator Stuart Candy then led us on a high-energy, mind-opening workshop helping us build tools and capacity for instilling long-term thinking into our own design work.?? ? Through this series of creative design exercises, we were able to get beyond the typical time frames of our work and begin to understand the reality of wide-ranging potential futures, as well as how they might impact our lives and practice over the next decades. In typical Mithun fashion, we learned and laughed together while strengthening our collaborative team spirit and culture. Stay tuned for more highlights and insights from Design 2099 in the coming weeks. We’re excited to share it with you. #mithundesign #Design2099 #DSN2099?

Interested in the latest strategies to advance health and resilience in multifamily residential buildings? Join us?for “Zero Carbon Multifamily Residential Buildings Part 2: Lessons from the EPIC Challenge,” a panel presentation that will evaluate three California Energy Commission EPIC Challenge winning case studies, including Mithun involvement in the Meridian at Corona Station project in Petaluma, CA, which features an advanced building enclosure and incorporates electric vehicle batteries in electric load shifting. This session will walk through the implementation of emerging technologies that can help achieve affordable, equitable, climate-resilient, cost-competitive and emissions-free residential construction. Mithun associate principal Mike Fowler will co-present this session with Redwood Energy managing principal Sean Armstrong, Architectural Nexus business development associate Cheryl McMurtry, Architectural Nexus principal Mihnea Dobre and Architectural Nexus project architect Megan Repka. David Baker Architects principal and sustainable design director Katie Ackerly will moderate the discussion. We hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/gF7uHvNG

Our San Francisco office is excited to host WTS San Francisco Bay Area for “Equitable Mobility: Revolutionizing Communities Through Inclusive TOD,” a panel discussion exploring the power of transportation-oriented development (TOD) to create more equitable and vibrant communities. Leaders at BART, VTA, Valley Link and Mission Housing will share insights on how public agencies and non-profits collaborate to ensure affordable housing and equitable development remain at the forefront of urban planning. ? Mithun principal Kristen Belt will be moderating this panel, including Transbay Joint Powers Authority executive director Adam Van de Water, BART TOD group manager Carli Paine, VTA senior real estate agent for TOD Cristina Nape, Tri-Valley - San Joaquin Valley Regional Rail Authority executive director/CEO Kevin Sheridan and Mission Housing Development Corporation executive director Sam Moss.?

Join Mithun principal?Ken Boyd for “Best in Class: Phius Challenges, Solutions, Insights for University Housing” at the 2024 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo to explore how two of the nation’s most established universities are modernizing older buildings and designing new buildings to meet rigorous sustainability standards. This panel presentation will discuss how Harvard University and Princeton University are rising to the challenge, and which parameters inform the integration of climate, health and equity to the design and construction of 788 housing units. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gtCdY6E2 Ken’s co-presenters include Airtight Energy Consulting, Inc. managing principal Mark Newey, Harvard University assistant director of sustainable real estate Olivia Percy and Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) project engineer Ali Yalaz, P.E., LEED AP. The conversation will be moderated by Thornton Tomasetti vice president Prudence Ferreira.

We are excited to share plans for 3073 International Boulevard, a project that will transform the Oakland artist warehouse fire site into stable, permanently affordable housing in support of creativity and culture, healing and well-being, inspired by and firmly rooted in the Fruitvale. The project aims to extend and enhance the diverse, tight-knit, entrepreneurial, immigrant fabric of International Boulevard. An open-air ground floor with artful murals, entry gates, and patterned breeze blocks emerging from hardy planting enliven the sidewalk and help to build a safe, neighborly, walkable community. A proposed curb extension or bulb-out along 31st Avenue, with new street trees, honors the victims of the warehouse fire tragedy with new growth, providing a respite to appreciate a commemorative art element that will be regionally visible from the BART trains and adjacent busy streets. Mithun’s San Francisco team is leading design (architecture, landscape architecture and interior design), in collaboration with Yes Community Architects, associate architect, and The Unity Council, client and developer. Learn more about the project via the San Francisco Chronicle: https://lnkd.in/gY2b99Qv

It’s the 75th anniversary of Mithun! Seventy-five years ago, we didn’t have computers, email, cell phones or electric cars. The role of designers has changed so much from our founding in 1949 to today. What will design professions look like in 2099 when Mithun is 150 years young? Join us in exploring the next 75 years of the practice and the world around us. What might the world be like 75 years from now? What global and regional issues might we be facing? What important role will designers of the built environment need to play to help? We’d love to hear your thoughts. #mithundesign?#Design2099?#DSN2099

Attending the 2024 Design-Build Conference & Expo this week in Dallas? Join us Wednesday for “Designing in Reciprocity – Aligning Process with Owner Goals to Maximize Impact,” to learn how the Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth project team maximized progressive design-build to deliver a new K-12 Academic and Physical Education building that exceeds owner expectations for value and design. Mithun partner JoAnn Hindmarsh Wilcox, AIA LEED AP and senior associate Chip Hammer will present this session with Skanska project executive Alan Halleck and Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth (CDHY) / Washington School for the Deaf executive director Shauna Bilyeu. To learn more, visit: https://lnkd.in/gif4kaE7 Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) #progressivedesignbuild #DesignBuild #DBIA #DBIACON

The Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth’s Washington School for the Deaf (WSD) is featured in Architectural Record! The article explores the design process—focused on learning and immersion in Deaf culture—and resulting mass timber buildings tuned to support ASL-bilingual communication and community at WSD. Remarkably, the effort reflects both careful specializations aligned to DeafSpace principles and broad relevance to all built environments. Author Joann Gonchar, FAIA, LEED AP sums it up: “This kind of thoughtful consideration of details can improve any educational setting—those for students who are hearing-impaired, or are neurodiverse, or in the general school population.” Read the article: https://lnkd.in/g5KZMUpx Project team members include: Washington State Department of Enterprise Services, project management; Skanska, progressive design-build team leader; Mithun, architecture, interior design and landscape architecture; Hansel Bauman and Robert T. Sirvage, DeafSpace experts; PCS Structural Solutions, structural engineer; Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc., civil engineer; Glumac and JH Kelly, LLC, design-build MEP; A3 Acoustics, LLP, acoustics; Dark Light Design, lighting; Halliday Associates, food service; Mayer/Reed, Inc., environmental graphics + signage; O'Brien360, LEED consultant; S?z?n Group Inc., Commissioning Agent; The Avidcraft PLLC, specifications; and Qualified Enclosure Consultants, envelope consulting.

Check out the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) video highlighting our visionary client, The Industrial Commons, and their project, Accelerating the Green Textile Economy in Southern Appalachia! The Industrial Commons’ 27-acre, multi-building Innovation Campus will play an integral role in their mission to serve as a regional manufacturing incubator, connecting entrepreneurs and brands in the region to circular textile supply chains. Project design by Mithun in collaboration with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, PAE, Stantec, Fast + Epp, Baumgartner Urban Systems Strategy (BUSS), Biohabitats and Integrated Eco Strategy. ? Launched in 2022 following the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the ARC’s?Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE)?is a funding opportunity driving large-scale, regional economic transformation through multi-state collaborative projects. As a recipient of ARISE funding, The Industrial Commons will be able to expand its suite of training opportunities and services for textile entrepreneurs, companies and cooperatives, providing essential manufacturing space, training and support that will help more textile businesses thrive in the region. ? Learn more about TIC’s Innovation Campus: https://lnkd.in/eznuNb8S