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With eye-catching designs, the best books for kids, and impressive community programming, these children’s libraries stand out as some of the top choices in the United States. I think you’ll want to s…

Lacking space to expand the senior living campus in Dubuque, Iowa, a master plan was created for a satellite campus, Luther Manor Asbury. Located a mile from the current campus, the satellite campus a…

MILWAUKEE, WI. April 18, 2018— NEWaukee and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation(WEDC) today presented Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) with a 2018 Bubbler Award.

Every year, NEWaukee hosts th…

The DeForest Area School District is forming a citizen advisory committee to explore facility needs at its schools. The citizen advisory committee (CAC) was approved at the DeForest Area School Board’s April 9 meeting, following advisement from district administration and Superintendent Eric Runez.

Construction: Planned

Community in Texas Plans 101-Unit Expansion

An Integrated Property Management senior living community in Kingwood, Texas, has announced a new expansion project that would add 7…

From brownfield site to bustling retail hub, the team behind Freshwater Plaza says the mixed-use development has been a catalyst for growth in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS - Aspirus Riverview Hospital will have more room for hospital transportation in addition to its expanded space for new moms.

The hospital's $25 million project, which also includes u…

Senior living community Saint John’s on the Lake on Milwaukee’s East Side will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, April 13, to celebrate the start of construction of a 22-story residential towe…

With the goal of building a premier destination medical facility, the designers of Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Drexel Town Square Health Center have created calming environments f…

Last fall, Discovery World announced an $18 million, 20,000-square foot expansion that would allow the museum, whose current building opened in 2006, to broaden its exhibition space. As work progresses on that new space, designed by Milwaukee's Eppstein Uhen Architects, the museum also announced a grant from We Energies that will help fund a new permanent energy exhibition, called "Power On," at Discovery World.

MADISON, Wis. — Dave Franchino is no longer avoiding East Washington Avenue.

For years, his office was located in the American Center Business Park north of Interstate 39-90-94. So when clients from …

It’s the million-dollar question: what will baby boomers want when they move into senior living communities en masse?

One recent debate is whether it’s better to go big or go small with regard to uni…

NEWaukee’s annual Bubbler Awards highlight the Wisconsin companies that work to accommodate the specific interests and needs of Millennials in the workplace.

About 50 community members packed into the 64-year-old gymnasium at Clinton Elementary School on Wednesday night to consider the district’s groundwork on a potentially sweeping referendum in November.…

LAKE MILLS -- Officials in the Lake Mills Area School District want community input on a three phase facilities plan and possible referendum in November. The school district held its first master plan…

Klement Sausage Co. Inc. CEO Tom Danneker told his employees that the company had lost its Milwaukee Brewers racing sausage sponsorship on Jan. 23. The next day, he met with Don Smiley, CEO of Summerfest organizer Milwaukee World Festival Inc.

Allison Pfeifer and Emily Thomas of Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) received Gold and Silver Awards, at the Wisconsin Chapter of American Society of Interior Designers’ (ASID) 42nd Annual Design Excellence Awards.

The DeForest Area School District has moved on to phase two of its facilities study and is now discussing forming a citizen committee to investigate what work needs to be done.

After six years of planning and construction, residents of Brookside Care Center on Wednesday moved into the newly completed care center, located at 3506 Washington Road. The center is operated by Kenosha County.

Summerfest today offered updates on two construction projects that will change the face of the festival in 2018.

A new North Entry Gate and Community Plaza – which was designed by Eppstein Uhen Archi…

Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. (MWF) officials announced today that Briggs & Stratton has donated a 60kW commercial standby generator, equipped with an industrial grade engine for reliable back-up power.

Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin plans to spend $33 million on a three-story, 100,000-square-foot facility in the city of West Bend.

The facility at 1700 W. Paradise Drive will be anc…

Next year, the teen center will shift across the street as part of the Goodman Community Center’s Brassworks expansion project. Our youth and staff have been working with Eppstein Uhen Architects to talk design and ensure that youth voice is part of the process.

When David Freshwater, chairman of Watermark Retirement Communities, and David Barnes, the company’s president and CEO, set out to build a skilled nursing facility for the first time, they had decades…

The residence hall that was designed in the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s master plan and built into the State of Wisconsin’s ’13-15 biennial budget will finally be breaking ground this spring …

In two short years in the workplace studio at Eppstein Uhen Architects Heather Turner Loth has opened new doors to potential business opportunities at more than 30 companies, including several Fortune 100 firms.

APPLETON - File this story under “Appleton Public Library: The Next Chapter.”

In a proposal selected out of eight submissions, a new $29.8 million library structure could be part of a mixed-used deve…

Members of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee were taken through what will eventually become the newly-renovated U.S. Cellular Connections Stage at the big gig.

A group of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee students got a special treat Monday as they received a virtual tour of the new U.S. Cellular Stage being built on the Summerfest grounds and were…

When picturing the best setting for a thriving, well-lived life, most people won’t imagine a nursing home. The skilled nursing facility of the future can change that, however, with a strong technological base that facilitates connectivity for both residents and medical personnel.

Less than a decade ago, Saint John’s on the Lake constructed a new 21-story tower on its urban campus just north of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now, the nonprofit continuing care retirement c…

In senior living, it’s inevitable that some architecture and design features go from hot to not. Resident preferences change, care practices evolve, technology advances, and the way senior housing bui…

Global Marketing and consumer research giant, Epsilon, is transforming more than 68,000-SF of second-generation space for use as their new regional headquarters in Westminster. Located at 11030 Circle…

When the Milwaukee Bucks' $500 million arena opens this fall, it will be a world-class sports and entertainment venue. However, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, it served as a huge classroom for Bradley Tech students.

In advance of the Jan. 18 opening, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin held an open house Saturday at the new Drexel Town Square Health Center in Oak Creek. Check out the slideshow put together by Milwaukee Business Journal freelance photographer Kenny Yoo to get your first look inside the new health clinic.

In a race against the clock set for the beginning of the 2018-19 NBA season, work on the Milwaukee Bucks arena is continuing at a rapid pace—going from a lattice of structural steel to a completely en…

Construction is to begin this spring on a 22-story tower that will expand a Milwaukee east side senior housing community and alter the city's skyline overlooking Lake Michigan.

Saint John's on the La…

Within a creative community like Denver’s, looking forward is best accomplished together.

The romanticized myth of the solitary genius makes for some admittedly compelling imagery and anecdote, but i…

Nearly 10 years after the completion of the Ironworks building and gymnasium just across the street, Eppstein Uhen Architects is proud to be a part of the historic preservation and expansion of the Go…

In October, Badger Liquor opened their new office space at 1517 North RiverCenter Drive. The move to Schlitz Park has been in the making for almost two years. It all started when Badger’s Executive Co…

Stepping into the lobby of Rockwell Automation Inc.’s corporate headquarters in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood is like traveling back in time.

Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. and Uline announced today a new capital project which will build a new Uline Warehouse stage at the north end of Henry Maier Festival Park and continue Uline’s sponsorship of Summerfest presented by American Family Insurance.

It's an estimated $181 million school and the public got a sneak peak at what it may look like when it's completed in 2020. "It's nearly 600,000 square feet, it's got a four station field house with an indoor track, it has a competition 8-lane swimming pool," said architect Chris Michuad.

As the sun sets on 2017, senior housing architecture and design is evolving to help providers meet today’s challenges while pushing the industry toward a bolder, more innovative future.

Several leadi…

HRA Senior Living (Vero Beach, Fla.), in partnership with Confluent Development, is building a new 122,000-square-foot assisted living and memory care community in Beavercreek, Ohio.

The design for Swiss manufacturer Zund America Inc.’s headquarters would bring a more modern edge to Oak Creek, where it would be built south of the community’s new City Hall and library.

Eppstein Uhen Architects have been sponsoring the award-winning Integrated Practice/Building Information Modeling Studio at UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning since the fall 2007 semester…

Discovery World announced a major expansion and renovation today that will add nearly 20,000 square feet of public space to the museum, which sits on the lakefront at the foot of Clybourn Avenue.

Eppstein Uhen Architects, one of Milwaukee’s largest design firms, hired Scott Weas as its new director of operations.

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].

Swiss manufacturer Zund America Inc. will receive $900,000 in Oak Creek financing to build its new North American headquarters near Drexel Town Square.

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 …

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."

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…

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.

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…

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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…

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…

“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…

Denver-based architecture and interior design firm BurkettDesign Inc. has been acquired by Milwaukee-based Eppstein Uhen Architects.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, a global encapsulation technology leader in Appleton, Wisc., is currently housed in three different facilities on one campus. This 90-person company was looking to consolidate all operations into one building, while creating a strong corporate identity and improving the ongoing safety of their operations

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 …

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.

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 Milwaukee company’s overhaul of its 3rd Ward office space, said CEO Greg Uhen.

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…

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 brand-new look by building an open-air corridor with 14 stores and restaurants.

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…

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 complete.

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 that’s centered on employee retention, recruitment, collaboration, and fulfillment.

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

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…

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…