Updates

December 11, 2018

In Philadelphia, residents’ life expectancy is a product of their zip code. That’s what Dr. Bon Ku and Kr. Robert Pugulsi of Thomas Jefferson University’s JeffDESIGN and Health Design Lab found while researching the health of Philadelphia’s lower income communities, where life expectancy can swing as much as 20…

September 18, 2018

KieranTimberlake was recently named a Design Company of the Year Finalist as part of Fast Company’s 2018 Innovation by Design Awards. The annual awards recognize creative, problem-solving designers and business across 15 different categories. In addition to Design Company of the Year, KieranTimberlake earned…

September 3, 2018

In the Mongolian city of Ulaanbaatar, the cold climate and air pollution go hand in hand. The city is the coldest capital on earth, and its population relies largely on coal to survive the harsh winters. As a result, 42% of Mongolia’s children suffer from pollution-related health effects and…

June 27, 2018

The Northern Liberties Neighbors Association (NLNA) recently celebrated the opening of its new Pavilion designed by KieranTimberlake’s Community Involvement group and funded through a grant from the Penn Treaty Special Services District. Located just a few blocks from our studio, the NLNA Pavilion provides a permanent landscaped space for…

June 14, 2018

KieranTimberlake recently joined Brown University to celebrate the official dedication of a new Engineering Research Center. The state-of-the-art research facility, which broke ground in October 2015, establishes a unified identify for the School of Engineering while also expanding the University’s capacity for multidisciplinary collaboration. This project also marks Brown’s…

May 24, 2018

Earlier this month, KieranTimberlake researchers Billie Faircloth, Christopher Connock, and Ryan Welch attended the Smartgeometry conference in Toronto and conducted a week-long workshop called “Materials as Probes.” The workshop was an outgrowth of an ongoing research collaboration between KieranTimberlake and the Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in…

May 1, 2018

The AIA has selected KieranTimberlake’s studio at 841 North American Street as a 2018 Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Plus awardee. The COTE Top Ten honors projects that integrate environmental performance with design excellence, with a Plus designation reserved for projects with…

March 20, 2018

Three months after architecture writer Witold Rybczynski outlined our journey to achieve passive comfort amidst Philadelphia’s hot, muggy summers, we are proud to announce that Roast, the latest software application development project from KT Innovations, has been officially released for external beta testing. Designed to…

February 27, 2018

KieranTimberlake is proud to announce the elevation of 17 Principals, 19 Associates, four Directors, four Managers, and three Specialists. These new roles reflect the firm’s steady expansion over the past 35 years as our team has grown to include 120 interdisciplinary professionals with backgrounds ranging from architecture and design…

February 21, 2018

In 2015, Rice University commissioned KieranTimberlake to design a combined administrative building and parking structure for a newly activated campus entrance in an area defined by live oaks, an alee of cedar elms, and longstanding campus buildings. “We needed to find a way to carefully situate this tall structure…