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Innovations in affordable urban campus housing

Universities are leveraging co-housing models and shared food preparation to better address affordability and the complex needs of today’s students.

05.29.2025

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Leveraging DeafSpace Principles and Mass Timber to Advance School Design

Tuned for the needs of Deaf and hard of hearing youth, design strategies at Washington School for the Deaf could benefit any learning environment.

04.01.2025

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Take Their Word for It: Reflections from our 2024 Interns

Student interns are an important part of the culture at Mithun. Two interns share their experiences working with our integrated teams.

12.26.2024

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Advancing Park Design with Progressive Design-Build Delivery

Design-build delivery offers many opportunities to deliver parks projects on budget, on schedule and with design excellence by restructuring the design and construction process.

07.24.2024

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Centering Equity, Reconciliation and Community in Coastal Adaptation

Coastal adaptation can have far-reaching benefits for communities, prompting critical evaluation of design and planning processes, and leading to important shifts in the systems that shape the built environment.

04.03.2024

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Climate Approaches: Heat Resilience

Extreme heat, whether in the form of rising long-term average temperatures or punctuated by heat waves, is a global health threat. Learn how Mithun’s designers are addressing climate and health impacts of rising heat through innovative design strategies, R+D and real-world project applications.

12.14.2023

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Innovation Hall Breaks New Ground in Partnerships and Processes

Mithun and Lease Crutcher Lewis leveraged progressive design-build delivery to create a new STEM facility for Cascadia College and the University of Washington Bothell that brings people together around shared mission, goals and objectives.

11.15.2023

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Highlights from the AIA Conference on Architecture

It was fantastic to celebrate with friends, colleagues and collaborators at the AIA Conference on Architecture in San Francisco this month!

06.16.2023

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Sea2City: Decolonizing Design Practice

Key to the Mithun+One team approach to the Sea2City Design Challenge is the integration of First Nations knowledge and values through a process centering decolonization. This ideas post focuses on our process and reflections, and is the first in a series about the collaborative effort to create a vision and pilot projects for coastal adaptation at Vancouver’s False Creek.

03.12.2023

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An Exemplary Model for Sustainable Schools

The Bush School’s new net-zero energy Upper School is the first Passive House certified school in the state and the first Salmon Safe certified school in the nation.

11.21.2022