2025 is off to a busy start with KT staff delivering lectures, attending conferences, guiding site tours, and more. To best capture all that we're up to, we're continuing to share quarterly posters designed by our in-house team. 
 
For registration information and an overview of all upcoming events, visit our Lectures and Conferences page. 
 
We look forward to connecting soon at events both near and far.

Since our founding in 1984, KieranTimberlake has been committed to the protection and betterment of planetary and community health. We confront climate change, social inequity, and biodiversity loss through all our work, outreach, and discourse.  
 
We are signatories of the AIA 2030 Commitment, which seeks to make all buildings carbon neutral by 2030, and the AIA Materials Pledge, a promise to consider human, climate, and ecosystem health as a part of the building materials evaluation process.  
 
As part of our ongoing participation in these initiatives, we report our projects' data to the Design Data Exchange (DDx) and share our Sustainability Action Plan (SAP), which provides guidance and benchmarks for achieving carbon neutrality. 
 
In 2024, we reimagined our SAP into a living document which affirms our commitments, establishes actionable goals, and organizes our efforts toward a more sustainable approach to architectural practice.

We are happy to announce that KieranTimberlake has officially transitioned from a partnership to a 100% employee-owned corporation, marking a significant milestone after 40 years as a founder and partner-led firm. This evolution highlights our commitment to fostering a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture, ensuring the firm's future is in the hands of those who have contributed to its success.

Principal and Research Director Ryan Welch was recently interviewed for AIA Philadelphia's Context Magazine. The Winter 2025 issue showcased architectural research and was co-edited by Franca Trubiano and Milton Lau. 
 
In the interview, Ryan spoke about his career trajectory and the role of research in architectural practice today.

2300 Market is a singular new building that spans a century. The 8-story, 225,000-square-foot life science research and discovery building is targeting LEED Gold certification and is scheduled for completion in March 2025.

In KieranTimberlake's 40th anniversary year, our projects continued to receive accolades locally, nationally, and internationally for design excellence, sustainability, and innovation. Each award reflects our team's dedication to thoughtful architecture integrated to site, program, and people.

2024 was a busy and celebratory year for KieranTimberlake. 
 
We recognized our 40th anniversary with a series of public programming hosted at Ortlieb's Bottling House, our COTE Top Ten Award-winning office space and fabrication studio in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia.

As of December 2024, we're pleased to announce that Ortlieb's Bottling House, our historic office space and living laboratory, has been fully electrified.

Last week, KieranTimberlake hosted an evening of art and conversation in celebration of the new publication Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City. This event concludes our year of public programming in celebration of our 40th anniversary.  

Building Transparency, a nonprofit organization that provides open access data and tools to foster a better building future, announced it is developing Tally® 2.0, the next iteration of its tallyLCA tool, in collaboration with KieranTimberlake. The new version of the tool will continue to support the building industry by providing insight into the environmental impact of materials and different building designs. 
 
“We are honored to partner with Building Transparency on the development of Tally 2.0," said Ryan Welch, Principal and Research Director at KieranTimberlake.  
"By transitioning Tally to a free and open-access tool, we aim to move the AEC industry towards design strategies that minimize environmental impact."