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As Heraclitus noted, “The only thing that is constant is change.” Revitalizing your community’s environment, keeping ahead of trends and making sure you communicate improvements to your client base wi…

I recently gave a presentation with one of our clients on strategies for outpatient facility expansion at the Illinois Hospital Association (IHA) Leadership Summit and the American College of Healthca…

Why did I leave?

When you’re just out of school and trying to understand who you are and what drives you, being around open minded people is key. I’m not saying there aren’t open minded people spread…

After extensive research and community input, WCSD and EUA developed a long-range Facilities Master Plan that aligned with the priorities of a growing community, and addressed flexibility needs throug…

Click here to see Gillian Johnson's "Top 5 Faves for the Office" revealed in the September edition of Building Dialogue magazine [an affiliate with Colorado Real Estate Journal].

Photo: Williams Bay Elementary

Do you think that a room can affect a student’s grades? Let me put it this way, do you think that the quality of the learning environment effects learning? If you answe…

As I tour existing schools everyone asks for classroom space but then I ask them if those cabinets full of holiday decorations are a necessity.  Do they need 42 chairs in the room if there are only 23…

ProHealth Care wants to add a second floor to part of the D.N. Greenwald Center in Mukwonago, according to plans filed with the village.

The health care system’s plans include a vertical addition of …

WAUKESHA - Students at Waukesha South High School can expect a quicker lunch experience this school year, now that the cafeteria has been remodeled to have more of a "food court feel." 

The district …

When Becky Steinhoff’s organization purchased an abandoned foundry on Waubesa Street in 2005, she couldn’t immediately envision it as the thriving home of the Goodman Community Center. Now an $11.2 mi…

As healthcare providers strive to strike the balance between operational efficiencies and maintaining a high-level of patient-centered care, Lean design strategies can play an important role in health…

The Milwaukee Bucks celebrate the opening of their new practice facility Thursday, a key moment for both the renaissance of the team and downtown Milwaukee.

The building carries a long name — the Fro…

The Milwaukee Bucks today opened the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Sports Science Center, the team’s state-of-the-art training facility in downtown Milwaukee.

The 77,500 square-foo…

Water.

While much has been written about affordable housing and the acute labor shortage, as pressing as these problems are, they take a backseat to water.

Without water, development and growth in a…

The design of households has evolved into several differing approaches regarding layout of resident rooms and their relationship with social/community spaces, support spaces and services. These layo…

In a recent study, conducted by Barvara Zaferos of the Milwaukee Business Journal, the largest Milwaukee-area architecture firms were listed from top to bottom, headlined by Eppstein Uhen Architects. …

Virtual reality technology, like other advancements before it, is causing some fundamental changes in the architecture industry. 

To explore these changes, the Wisconsin Technology Council held a lunch…

Every designer who has worked in the long-term care or assisted living arena has an opinion on the correct number of residents a senior care household should have. The original Greenhouse® in Tupelo…

The Prep
Months before the shoot even happens, the Lands' End team selects color palettes and textures, and develops the creative themes that will run through the season’s catalogs by creating visual c…

The Milwaukee Bucks are on target to complete in July the team's new two-story training center that is being built on the western side of North Sixth Street and West Juneau Avenue in downtown Milwauke…

I recently sat through an internet video promoting a new assisted living residence in the Midwest. In this video, the developer boasted of having individually created the household model of elder ca…

You know the classic Johnny Cash song. It’s one of my favorites from the Man in Black. The other day I realized that Johnny’s struggles are analogous to the challenges we face as designers and healt…

Several such companies have established offices, expanded their local presence or entered the market through a merger in recent months, attracted to Denver because of the area's development boom and y…

Today, prospective employees, business partners and customers can access your work culture within a few clicks. A truly inspiring work space can make people want to like, pin, snap, tweet and share …

We all have those favorite spaces in our homes, communities, and at work. A space where a comforting feeling is created as a result of both the physical setting of the space and human factors. For e…

“I basically start any project by abandoning any notion of ‘style,’ ” says Johnson, an award-winning principal at Denver’s Burkett Design who specializes in commercial interiors. “Style in and of itse…

Spirits were high on Wednesday as the Waupun Area School District broke ground for a district-wide facility project that has been years in the making.

The first of three groundbreaking ceremonies kic…

A five-story, 96-unit apartment building was approved for a large site just south of E. Brady St. today. The Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee unanimously approved a zoning change for …

The acquisition follows a series of expansions and investment by Eppstein Uhen, which has 180 employees in Wisconsin and Iowa. The firm recently rehabbed its 3rd Ward offices to accommodate hires in M…

Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) has more than 180 employees in three offices located in Wisconsin and Iowa, but makes its first move into Colorado with this acquisition.

“For over 25 years, BurkettDes…

St. John's on the Lake would develop a new tower, with up to 20 stories, at the Milwaukee east side senior housing community under preliminary plans.

The new $80 million tower would have 50 beds for …

As an architect, one of my biggest challenges is to help people think differently about the problem they want to solve. Open mindedness is essential when trying to provide innovative solutions and o…

An apartment building proposed for Milwaukee's east side has received Plan Commission approval after the developer dropped a 10-story tower in response to concerns from neighborhood residents.

Klein …

Discovery World would develop a major addition and convert one of its theaters into new exhibit space as part of an $18 million improvement project at the museum on downtown Milwaukee's lakefront.

Th…

For many of us, we spend the day sitting in a tiny office with no windows.

Some employees are sentenced to life in a cubicle with florescent lights burning over head.

But times are changing.

Imagin…

About 35 miles east of Wisconsin’s state capital is Lake Mills—quintessential suburbia with a gazebo-adorned town center, a weekly farmer’s market, and the rural neighborliness of Anytown, USA. But un…

(Projects highlighted below only feature EUA projects)

Waunakee Intermediate School wins big at the In Business Magazine Commercial Design Awards with Project of the Year, Best Green-Built Project an…

When designing new lab facilities, a floor to floor height of 16 feet is common, however, clients can’t always afford a new building. Many clients do a “facelift” to their existing laboratories and …

CMH broke ground on the new Our Lady of Memorial Chapel, the capstone project of the Crusading for Excellence Campaign. This new prayer and worship space will be used for the sacramental benefit of th…

With five projects in the queue for repair and the development of a new help desk coding program underway, information technology students at Fox Valley Technical College are finding lots to do in the…

Representatives from Eppstein Uhen Architects and CG Schmidt on Monday told Baraboo School Board members they plan to complete new locker rooms and install a fire sprinkler system at the high school b…

Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) Senior Planner Jeffrey Anderzhon, FAIA, received his American Institute of Architects (AIA) Fellowship in 2007, joining a select group of AIA Iowa members. Fellowship is…

Top Projects is our chance to honor those in the industry — generals, subcontractors, architects, engineers and owners — whose projects met and exceeded expectations in 2016. Projects can be of all si…

Milwaukee Business Journal readers know our publication puts a lot of emphasis on real estate news — and justifiably so as real estate dealings impact everybody in every business, in one way or anothe…

The Whitewater Unified School District (WUSD) School Board on Monday took further steps forward in its post-referendum facilities upgrade process.

In November, voters approved as $23.5 million capita…

Being a healthcare provider of choice is dependent upon many factors: a patient’s insurance coverage, facility location, and brand reputation, among others. Brand reputation, in turn, is the result …

US News and World report has ranked Milwaukee as the 47^th best city in the country to live in. Accredited to the average housing costs, unemployment rate of 4.6% and a thriving music and art scene. 41…

United Hospital System plans to start construction this spring on a major expansion of St. Catherine’s Medical Center campus in Pleasant Prairie for an advanced outpatient surgical wing.

The Kenosha-…

Architects behind Sun Prairie’s two new elementary schools presented the Sun Prairie School Board on Monday, Feb. 6 with an update on the preliminary building plans.

Both the Thompson Road and Grand …

Learning environments are continually evolving – the suburban, Midwestern high school from the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off highlights a high school with standard classrooms – 30 years later, …

The Oconomowoc School Board Monday unanimously approved the schematic design for the expansion and renovation of Ixonia Elementary School, a first step in planning the project.

Superintendent Roger R…

Naturally, Zurn Industries LLC's new Milwaukee headquarters includes toilets.

Except, this office building puts one of those toilets out in the open for display.

It's among several Zurn products inc…

St. John’s On The Lake on Milwaukee’s East Side will replace or significantly expand its existing three-story building and is planning a third tower on the corner of Prospect Avenue and E. Kane Place.…

This is the first blog of my series in 2017 that will focus on the surging expansion of biotechnology in the upper Midwest. I am based in Madison, Wisconsin where science, research, innovation and e…

Watch Video on the Impact the Building is Making on the Student Experience 

In this transformative school, learning is no longer restricted to the classroom, it happens throughout the building. EUA s…

Watch Video on Menasha High School

EUA helped bring the character and history of this building to life while creating modern learning environments at the same time, continuing the tradition of Menash…

Encapsys LLC facility, Appleton, Wisc.

Size: 40,000 gsf

Project Team: EUA, Ring & DuChateau (MEP+F), Miron Construction, Pierce (structural), Point of Beginning (civil and landscaping)

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Marcus Hotels & Resorts' proposal for the vacant site at 4th Street and Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee includes a 276-room expansion of the existing Hilton Milwaukee City Center hotel and …

The Marcus Corp. has released details and renderings of a proposal for a major hotel expansion and high-rise apartment tower at the long-dormant city-owned parking lot at North Fourth Street and West …

A site near downtown Milwaukee's convention center would see a 276-room expansion of the neighboring Hilton hotel and development of a 200-unit apartment high-rise under a new $125 million proposal.

Moments before the city's Plan Commission delivered the final municipal vote needed to greenlight a proposed center for entrepreneurship on Monday night, history was made. Or so claimed the leader of …

I recently took my daughter to an orthodontic consultation and was very satisfied with our experience compared to the typical experience I have with my primary care doctor. It made me think about ho…

Mortenson Construction, Divine Savior Holy Angels High School and Eppstein Uhen Architects are the three top winners in the large category (100-249 employees) for the Milwaukee Business Journal's 2016…

That open fee…

The Milwaukee Bucks, Marquette University, Mortenson Construction and Aurora Health Care are among the winners of the Milwaukee Business Journal's 2016 Best Places to Work awards.

Other winners inclu…

The organizers of Milwaukee’s Summerfest music festival are drawing on familiar faces for the festival grounds’ next big renovation project.

On Monday morning the nonprofit organization Milwaukee Wor…

Kindness Architecture & Planning will merge with its neighbor in Milwaukee’s 3rd Ward, Eppstein Uhen Architects.

Kindness Architecture, established in 2008 by Scott Kindness, is a seven-person fi…

Of the 18 new positions Eppstein Uhen Architects filled in the past year, 16 went to people from outside Wisconsin.

Growth, coupled with the need to be attractive to the right talent, prompted the Mi…

We live in a world of instant gratification, a world where virtually everything is digital, online or at your fingertips, a world where you can sign-up for Match.com one day and be married the next.…

In a recent study, conducted by Barvara Zaferos of the Milwaukee Business Journal, the largest Milwaukee-area architecture firms were listed from top to bottom, headlined by Eppstein Uhen Architects. …

With a sense of the growing demand for their product — proprietary varieties of "Creamer" potatoes that are packaged for quick preparation — a Canadian company has begun its expansion in the United St…

Architecture is everywhere you look. And architectural firms with offices in the Milwaukee area are on top of their design games keeping the ideas flowing for clients that want projects that are focus…

Humans are programmed to be both active and social, and the sad reality is that office space is often not conducive for either. People sit in front of computer screens or on the phone for eight to 10 …

As a new corporate headquarters in Middleton for a vibrant software company, this project repurposed a windowless medical equipment production space into a dynamic work environment – increasing employ…

As we celebrate “Older Americans Month” in May, we must recognize that the world of elderly care and housing is rapidly changing as is reflected in the rash of recent organizational name changes: Amer…

Maintaining access to businesses was one of the biggest tasks for the contractors working on the Hilldale Shopping Center redevelopment project in Madison.

The $9 million project gave the mall a bran…

Expansions of parking structures tend to be straight-forward projects. However, that wasn’t the case when the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison decided to add a three-level, 469,155-foot expansi…

HarborChase of Shorewood doesn’t look like the typical assisted-living and memory-care clinic … and that’s exactly the point.

The developer, Harbor Retirement Associates Senior Living, wanted an “urb…

Okay, maybe efficiency in healthcare design isn’t as exciting as the love story between Tom Cruise and Renee Zellweiger in the movie “Jerry Maguire,” but when I talk to Healthcare Industry Leaders, …

The Milwaukee Bucks unveiled a set of interior renderings for the team’s downtown arena Thursday night showing for the first time specific sections that fans will experience once the structure is comp…

WTS Paradigm
Best Renovation – Office

With a design that celebrates the creative process, WTS Paradigm might not be setting a new paradigm with a creative office renovation, but it’s reinforcing one t…

Designs for the new Milwaukee Bucks arena, parking structure and team practice facility all cleared Milwaukee’s Plan Commission Monday with no opposition and few questions. The three downtown projects…

“Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-perfo…

Click here to watch informational walk-through video of EUA's HarborChase of Shorewood senior living project.

Like all children, Robin Anderson imagined what she wanted to be when she grew up. But unlike so many, her dream never changed.

She was going to be an architect. Anderson was fascinated as her parent…

The UWM Innovation Accelerator, funded in part by a federal economic development grant as the first building in a planned Innovation Park, is a public-private partnership that collocates business, ind…

Aligning a team toward a common goal under a specified budget can prove challenging during a laboratory project. Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) has found that obtaining consensus among the stakehold…

How do you like your Pizza? Which toppings are your favorite and which ones make you say “eww”? Think of all the options available; the types of pizza (Margherita, Neapolitan, Marinara) all the topp…

The Madison Fire Department’s new administration facility and Station No. 1 will be completed this month, significantly boosting public safety capabilities citywide.

The new administration offices, 3…

Remember the quintessential family road trip? Our road trips consisted of my wife and I and our two kids piled into the minivan. Sound familiar? The family road trip always included a starting point, …

There are a lot of bragging rights that go along with earning the Best Places to Work designation — and rightfully so. Many employers may think and say they’re a great place to work, but do they reall…

The Milwaukee Bucks, Aurora Health Care and GMR Marketing are among the winners of the Milwaukee Business Journal's 2015 Best Places to Work awards.

Other winners include Quarles & Brady LLP, Mil…

What was your 4th grade teacher’s name?  Mine was Mrs. Pauly. She was an outdoorsy lady who appreciated nature and the history of early Wisconsin pioneers and liked to take a unique approach to teachi…

The Milwaukee Bucks tipped-off their 2015 season on October 28th against the New York Knicks. As EUA's partnership with the Milwaukee Bucks continues, EUA executives and team members were in attendanc…

Students are familiar with the facility — they've been using it now for nearly two months — but for community members, an open house Monday, Oct. 19, was the first chance to see Arrowhead High School'…

Let’s face it; times aren’t getting easier with respect to education funding. So when our team created the 2015 Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Design Guide, we included design options to address differen…

How a 108-year-old Firm Uses BIMLink, Ideate Explorer, and Ideate Sticky. Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) is a privately held Wisconsin architectural design firm best known for their design philosophy …

There are many necessary contributing factors for a senior living master plan to be successful and workable. These diverse factors require an integrative melding of market, financial and built envir…

Even before the marketing feasibility study is complete, the collaborative effort of considering built environmental options for a repositioning, or “right-sizing” of campus care program, operations…

The financial consultant should be fully engaged and working in conjunction with the collaborative team from the beginning of the engagement. As the modifications to the built environment and produc…

The era of square classrooms where students sit in perfectly aligned rows of desks while teachers stand and lecture at the front of the classroom has faded. As districts expand their educational goa…

Let’s get to the bottom of it

Recently there has been a lot of discussion on adding makerspaces within the school districts I am working with. However, from district-to-district there is variation be…

A tour of district offices and the Monona Grove Liberal Arts Charter School were among the highlights of the Feb. 17 meeting of the Monona Grove School District Long-Range Facilities Planning Committe…

“It was done in a way that gives us a good balance of work and fun,” states Henry, Application Consultant at WTS Paradigm, about their new headquarters. “I feel like it is a much bet…

When Justin Johnson was hired in 2012 to help revamp the Watertown hospital cafeteria to emphasize scratch food and sustainable operations, he was skeptical whether the concept would work.

Now, Johns…

The new facility will encompass more than 100,000 square feet of space and will double as the national headquarters of Menasha Packaging Co., which is Menasha Corp.'s largest subsidiary.

"Having been…

I believe the foundation of life is much like a structural building foundation, as both need to be strong to succeed. Having parents who are educators with a combined 80 years of experience has no dou…

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) around 21.0 million students attended American colleges and universities this year. As the number of students and the cost of college…

Even a brief hiatus from the profession didn’t stop Andrew Malanowski, AIA, NCARB, LEED APBD+C, from earning his license at 28. Now, the Wisconsin architect has his hands full as an IDP supervisor, li…

The world’s population is aging rapidly in both the developed and developing countries. Most of these societies have undertaken the obligation of providing care for their elders and the environments i…