As the built environment continues to rapidly evolve, responding to both market and generational demands, the design and architecture profession have reached a crossroads. Creating static, one-use destinations – meaning those singular residential buildings, retail malls, or office parks – is no longer a sustainable solution. The shifting demand is for more flexible, dynamic, market responsive, and experience-driven environments, those spaces that provide a foundation for multiple functionalities and add undeniable long-term value to a community. Consumer expectations have evolved from simple, large-scale buildings with one ideology, to a more authentic and meaningful revitalization, adaptive reuse, and repositioning of buildings, spaces, and experiences. Read more here.

Award-winning architecture, design, and strategy firm NELSON Worldwide welcomes Shay Lam as Studio Leader of Workplace, Asset Strategy, and Hospitality. Shay will collaborate with firm leadership to establish NELSON Worldwide as a stronghold in the New York and tri-state area. 

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In a recent article with Law360, teammate Kristin Cerutti discusses how many law firms are deciding to revamp their workplaces and what her clients are requesting, as the next generation of legal office spaces begins to take shape. Read the full article here.

When Ice Miller Chicago was presented with the opportunity for more space on the floor above its existing office, the team engaged NELSON Worldwide to expand and renovate its 200 W Madison Avenue location.

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For its new Minneapolis office, global technology company Sovos sought a workspace that would foster collaboration and connection among team members, while offering flexible solutions to accommodate individual and team work preferences as well as company expansion over time.

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Portfolio: For Manhasset-based, family-owned London Jewelers, the goal in renovating was to share in that success, primarily by creating a space that offers customers a personal experience in luxurious surroundings. Managed by Nelson Worldwide (Minneapolis), the new design harkens back to the Paris of years gone by. Read more here.

Spring Forward: JUST AS the first tulips along Chicago’s premiere shopping streets began to cautiously emerge this spring, Primark (London) unveiled its first location in the Midwest on Chicago’s State Street. Read more here.

NELSON Worldwide announces the addition of Vicki Eickelberger as northeast regional leader. Based in the firm’s New York office, Eickelberger brings more than 23 years of leadership, brand and storytelling expertise, offering a new approach to experiential design, culture and the power of physical space as an engagement tool to further activate NELSON Worldwide’s boundary-pushing designs for clients. Read more here.