Combining Creativity with Collaboration, Svigals+Partners Wins Commissions and Recognition as Fast Company's "Most Innovative"
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Architecture, art and advisory firm Svigals+Partners has been selected for Fast Company's upcoming "50 Most Innovative Companies" issue. The 30-person firm appears as one of the "top 10 most innovative companies in architecture."
With high-profile commissions on the boards, and the launch of new tools for creativity and enhanced client engagement, Svigals+Partners has emerged as a highly regarded design leader and a valuable consultant to top institutional, corporate and government groups. The firm has made headlines recently for high-profile building projects on the East Coast, including the new Sandy Hook School.
Recent launches of client engagement tools include Talk+Listen — a dice game designed to encourage participation and enhance communication — as well as Make+Play, the most recent installment of an ongoing interactive outreach campaign, conceived by founding principal Barry Svigals, FAIA, combining thematically linked stop-motion video and sculptural paper mailers.
"Innovation is seeing the world in a new way, every day," says Svigals. "We need this creative vision to transcend the dogmas of the past. As Lincoln said, 'We must think anew, and act anew.'"
Fast Company's "50 Most Innovative" issue emphasizes "the breadth of companies with progressive, nimble business models, an ethos of sustainability, and a culture of creativity." The print issue, hitting newsstands Tuesday, February 17th, places Svigals+Partners in the company of global leaders in design and transformation, including Apple, Toyota, Tesla Motors and Warby Parker.
Led by Barry Svigals, FAIA, with architects and partners Jay Brotman AIA, Robert Skolozdra AIA, LEED AP, and Chris Bockstael AIA, Svigals+Partners is widely recognized as a national leader in the design of K-12 and higher education environments. The firm is also an expert in scientific research facilities, workplace design, healthcare projects, corporate headquarters, as well as mixed-use commercial properties and private residences.
Svigals+Partners projects follow the firm's core vision: to contribute to a world of prosperous and compassionate communities. Striving to create spaces that advance their client's purpose, inspire success and nourish identity, the firm supports this vision through the integration of original sculpture and artwork into the architecture.
Designers at Svigals+Partners encourage their clients to see their environment in new ways, a process that frequently reveals unexpected, previously hidden resources that can be leveraged for the good of the project. The firm refers to this approach as "Boundless Resources."
This commitment to client engagement throughout every project phase was cited by the community of Newtown, Connecticut, as the central reason for the municipality's selection of Svigals+Partners to design the new Sandy Hook Elementary School.
For more information on Svigals+Partners, please contact Adam Sullivan at (212) 757-7932.
About Svigals + Partners
Based in New Haven, Connecticut, Svigals+Partners is a full-service architecture, art and planning firm dedicated to building sustainable communities that uplift and inspire people. The firm is known for its success in the design and construction of educational facilities, community projects, research and science buildings and corporate workplaces since its inception in 1983. Renowned for the original and imaginative integration of planning, design, and artwork in the service of broad client goals, the firm is committed to creating meaningful change in the world. Svigals + Partners offers a complete range of architectural services from master planning, site selection and feasibility studies through design and construction. In the firm's portfolio are major laboratory projects as well as 30 years of new and renovated private and university research buildings. For more information, visit www.svigals.com.
Contacts: Adam Sullivan, [email protected], (973) 744-4101
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