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Verano 8 Graduate Student Housing Opens at UC Irvine
The significant new residential and student-life community expands access to affordable housing on campus for the university’s growing graduate student population.
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Verano 8 Graduate Student Housing Opens at UC Irvine
The significant new residential and student-life community expands access to affordable housing on campus for the university’s growing graduate student population.
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Hensel Phelps, Mithun Win UC San Diego Student Housing Project
The Nuevo West Graduate Student Housing is utilizing design-build delivery and will open in 2019.
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Student Housing at UW Embraces an Urban, Walkable Setting
UW residence halls provide students with unique learning environments, social connections and improved connectivity to the city.
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Mithun, Hensel Phelps Awarded New UC Irvine Graduate Student Housing Project
The $215 million Verano 8 residential community will house more than 1,000 graduate students and related amenity spaces in seven buildings.
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The Student Housing Boom: Design and Development Outlook
Urban Land magazine explores the impact of changing forces on U.S. student housing markets, and the trends in design and development that are delivering results.
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Hensel Phelps, Mithun Awarded UCI Student Housing
The University of California, Irvine Middle Earth Expansion will open in August 2019 to serve expanding demand for on-campus student housing.
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UC Santa Cruz Heller Graduate Student Housing
New mass timber student housing community as part of the Student Housing West P3 project development
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Hensel Phelps, Mithun Awarded Third UC San Diego Student Housing Project
The $211 million Nuevo East Graduate Student Housing community will open in 2020.
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UC Irvine Verano 8 Graduate Student Housing
New student housing complex delivering critical affordable housing for graduate students
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Washington State University Olympia Avenue Student Housing
New student housing for undergraduates of all levels, featuring a mix of unit types and gathering areas to unite the diverse community
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UCLA Weyburn Commons and Paseo
New graduate student housing community on a strategic site linking UCLA's southwest campus with downtown Westwood
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UC San Diego Nuevo East Graduate Student Housing
Mixed use community for graduate students including five residential buildings ranging from five to 12 stories and a student wellness and resource center
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CLT Student Housing Prototype
Prototype student housing community using cross-laminated timber (CLT) technology to transform the way buildings are delivered and perceived
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UC San Diego Mesa Nueva Graduate and Professional Student Housing
A new mixed-use residential community serving more than 1,300 graduate students at UC San Diego
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UC San Diego Nuevo West Graduate Student Housing
Mixed use residential community serving graduate students and patients of the adjacent UC San Diego medical center
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UCSD Nuevo West Student Housing Breaks Ground
Construction begins on UC San Diego’s new housing community for graduate students and university medical center patients and their families.
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Stateside Student Housing
Two privately developed residential buildings for Western Washington University graduate and undergraduate students
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Stateside Student Housing Achieves Fitwel Certification
New housing community offers health, wellness and amenity-rich living near the Western Washington University campus
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Zero Net Energy Student Housing
The strategies and systems behind ESTUARY, Mithun’s 2015 Architecture at Zero award-winning design concept for the UC San Francisco Mission Bay campus.
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Rising Leaders Discuss the Future of Design
Recently promoted leaders share some of the latest trends being incorporated in our work across markets and disciplines.
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Universities Adapt to Serve the Next Generation
Universities are responding to economic and enrollment challenges with initiatives to expand access to affordable campus housing that supports student priorities, reduces their carbon footprint and enriches the surrounding neighborhood fabric.
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New Student Life Facilities Enable UCLA Housing Guarantee
Mithun-designed student housing facilities totaling more than 4,000 student beds help UCLA clear its waitlist and guarantee housing for all freshmen and transfers. It is the first and only UC campus to do so.
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Mithun to expand on-campus housing for nearly 4,000 students at University of California, Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara has selected SOM and Mithun to oversee the design and construction of seven new student housing buildings on main campus.
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Prefabrication and Modular Approaches Rise to the Challenge
In order to meet some of today’s greatest social and environmental challenges, Mithun is embracing emerging technologies to explore improved methods to design and build. Prefabricated construction shows particular promise.
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UC Irvine Middle Earth Expansion Opens at the Heart of Campus
The significant new residential and student-life center introduces higher density housing, dining, learning and amenity spaces along the central campus Ring Road.
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UC Irvine Mesa Court Towers
High-performance living-learning community incorporating residential, dining and educational programs
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UCLA’s Booming Student Life
Mithun is assisting UCLA with a significant expansion to house up to 2,500 students, as well as academic and student life programs.
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2022 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
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Rising Leaders Discuss the Future of Design
Recently promoted leaders share some of the latest trends being incorporated in our work across markets and disciplines.
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University of Washington Maple and Terry Halls
Two mixed-use residence halls with linked amenities and public plazas within the urban West of 15th neighborhood
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UC San Diego Nuevo East is LEED Gold Certified
All three phases of graduate housing development on UC San Diego’s East Campus, totaling more than 3,500 beds, have achieved LEED Gold certification from the USGBC.
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UCLA Olympic and Centennial Residence Halls
New undergraduate student housing community with study/innovation center and bridge to main campus
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University of California San Diego Celebrates Groundbreaking of New Campus Housing
Construction on a vibrant new home for more than 1,300 graduate and professional students and their families, is officially underway.
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Mithun Projects Honored for Design-Build Excellence
Two higher education projects earned Merit Awards from the DBIA national 2020 Design-Build Project/Team Awards competition.
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2018 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle and San Francisco offices.
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Amplifying the Graduate Experience at UC San Diego
Mithun’s student housing communities at UC San Diego are featured in Student Housing Business.
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Portland State University Stephen Epler Hall
Student housing with smart technology and climate-responsive design in downtown Portland
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Observations on Campus Planning
How campus planning is evolving to better support mission, educational delivery and community in a changing world.
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2019 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle and San Francisco offices.
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UCSF Mission Bay Architecture at Zero Competition
2015 Architecture at Zero Honor Award-winning conceptual design for student housing on the UCSF Mission Bay campus
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2024 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle offices.
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Mithun Surpases AIA 2030 Commitment Energy Reduction Goal
Mithun reduced net energy use in its projects by an average of 81% in 2023, surpassing the AIA 2030 Commitment’s reduction goal for new and existing building renovations.
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Mithun Elevates New Executive Team, Marking Fourth Generation of Practicing Design Leaders
Partner Brendan Connolly joins firm President Dave Goldberg and partner Anne Torney in guiding daily operations.
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Bill LaPatra
With more than 40 years of practice, Bill serves as design partner on a range of higher education, civic, and mixed-use projects including housing and commercial. He leads projects from consensus-building input through completion, ensuring that each design grows from a deep green foundation, with te...
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A Year of Embodied Carbon
Mithun framed 2021 as the Year of Embodied Carbon to reaffirm our commitment to low-carbon buildings and communities, spark accelerated innovation internally and contribute decisively towards global efforts to limit atmospheric warming. This ideas post shares both successes and setbacks with the hop...
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Nick Wai-Poi
Nick Wai-Poi is a project designer and manager with more than fifteen years of professional experience in the United States, New Zealand and England. He brings valuable technical and program insight to a wide range of project types including mixed-use and multi-unit residential buildings, student ho...
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2021 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
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UC San Diego Nuevo West is LEED Gold Certified
The second phase of graduate housing development on UC San Diego’s East Campus has achieved LEED Gold certification from the USGBC.
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Western Washington University Buchanan Towers Addition
Addition and renovation of prominent student housing complex to support community at the eastern gateway to campus
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UCLA Weyburn Terrace and Hunters View honored with CNU Charter Awards
Two Mithun housing projects were announced as winners in the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)’s 14th annual Charter Awards program, which honors the year’s most outstanding work in architectural, landscape, urban and regional design.
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ESTUARY Wins Top Honor in Architecture at Zero Competition
Mithun’s net-zero energy student housing design for UC San Francisco Mission Bay receives the 2015 Architecture at Zero Honor Award.
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2017 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle and San Francisco offices.
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2023 Mithun Promotions
We are pleased to announce staff promotions in our Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
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Embodying Change
VisionThe embodied carbon emissions of building products and construction represent a significant portion of total global emissions—more than 11% annually. Designers are uniquely positioned to reduce this embodied carbon impact, but to do so, we must first integrate new types of analysis into our ...
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UC Irvine Middle Earth Towers
New living-learning community for undergraduates along the central campus Ring Road
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Bill LaPatra Joins AIA College of Fellows
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the elevation of Mithun partner Bill LaPatra to the prestigious College of Fellows.
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Princeton University Meadows Apartments
New P3 graduate student housing community, among the largest Passive House (PHIUS+) projects in the country
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Katharine Favret
Katharine has 20 years of experience with the design and development of built environments from affordable and market rate housing to university academic and student life communities, and K-12 schools. Drawing from her background in the environmental sciences, she approaches architecture with a syst...
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Four Mithun Projects Win AIA Seattle Awards
Diverse Mithun projects located across the nation receive accolades in the 2017 AIA Seattle Honor Awards program.
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UC Irvine Verano 8 Achieves LEED Platinum Certification
The new $221 mission graduate student housing community advances sustainable performance and promotes resident health and well-being with LEED and Fitwel certifications.
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Mithun R+D
A look at the evolution of research and development at Mithun, from the firm’s early days to current initiatives and what’s next.
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UCI Mesa Court Towers Wins Two DBIA Awards
The Hensel Phelps and Mithun design-build team brings home top honors at the Design-Build Institute of America’s (DBIA) Western Pacific Region awards program.
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Heidi Oien
With a passion for vibrant cities and a core belief that excellent design should be available to all, Heidi has focused her career on the urban realm. During her nearly 20 years of practice as an architect and urban designer, she has led a range of projects that revitalize or catalyze neighborhoods,...
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Craig Curtis Joins Mithun
Mithun welcomes Craig Curtis FAIA as Partner and Director of Emerging Building Technologies.
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Lynn McBride
Lynn is a well-rounded, team leader and project manager with more than 24 years of extensive and diverse experience. Her portfolio contains a wide breadth of project types including student housing, hospitality, workplace, civic, and multifamily housing. She has worked on projects ranging from large...
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Brendan Connolly
Brendan has focused his career on creating innovative built environments for educational and corporate clients. His passion for design runs from the earliest stages of conceptual development through the final days of construction, resulting in work that is both beautifully conceived, and of the high...
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UCI Middle Earth Towers Wins Two DBIA Awards
The Hensel Phelps | Mithun design-build team earns multiple honors in the Design-Build Institute of America’s (DBIA) Western Pacific Region awards program.
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UCSD Mesa Nueva Wins Energy Efficiency and Integration Award
AIA San Diego and San Diego Gas & Electric honored UC San Diego Mesa Nueva for exemplary achievement in energy and water performance, health and wellness.
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Craig Curtis
Craig is a nationally recognized design leader with a focus on innovative, sustainable integrated design and the incorporation of emerging building technologies including cross-laminated timber (CLT), mass timber and modular construction. With strong listening skills and a highly collaborative appro...
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Heads Up Display
VisionEarly-stage modeling, planning, and design software are not very data-centric or easily customizable. Often, useful data such as floor area ratio (FAR), program totals, unit breakdowns and open space are calculated after design schemes have been modeled, and real-time decisions are made only f...
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Daniel Swaab
With over 25 years of experience, Daniel has been involved in the planning and design of a variety of commercial, retail, residential, institutional and hospitality projects. Working from schematic design through construction administration, his diversified experience includes project architect on U...
