At O4A, we share a desire to build thoughtful, creative and inclusive spaces. We follow a transparent and accessible design process. We unpack the challenges and opportunities of every project’s unique requirements.
As an office, we have a profound respect for our built heritage and strive to add to the architectural legacy of our region through modern, relevant, and sensitive interventions. We emphasize the past through our work in the present. We integrate achievable and measurable sustainable design solutions; we can do this because we understand that money shouldn’t buy sustainability. Good design achieves it.
Discovery + Implementation
Active Listening + Unpacking Ideas
Building on the thoughts, requirements, and aspirations of clients and their users is a large part of what we do. Our aim is to positively challenge our clients and ourselves. We take on projects of every scale and find design opportunities in unexpected places. We engage, listen and distill ideas into concepts and approaches that are relevant, creative, and sophisticated.
Refinement + Follow-Through
We thrive in environments where we assist clients in defining programmatic needs and achievable design results. We build real-world solutions based on experience and meticulous dedication to service delivery that is rooted in personal and continual support for our clients at every step. We are able to achieve high technical results in our designs because our ideas are grounded by a pragmatic and efficient framework of knowledge in modern construction methodologies, highly optimized use of building information modeling, and rigorous coordination.
Supporting Clients + The Project
Our passion for design drives us to see our ideas fully realized. We are collaborators. O4A and its network of professionals and specialists are unified in their pursuit to make projects and ideas a reality. The result is the culmination of hard work in earlier phases of the project and the dedication and support of skilled contractors and craftspeople in later stages as the team moves towards the declaration that O4A strives for — to be not simply a design studio, but an Office for Architecture.