Updates

April 21, 2025

Last month, Philadelphia’s PBS member station WHYY visited KieranTimberlake to discuss our Bottling House gallery’s latest exhibition, Building Ghosts. Curated as a companion to the recently published book of the same name by Molly Lester and Michael Bixler, the exhibition interprets photography and essays from the…

April 1, 2025

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…

March 26, 2025

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…

March 3, 2025

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…

February 27, 2025

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…

February 7, 2025

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. Located within the last remnants of the historic industrial fabric of Center City Philadelphia’s West Market corridor,…

February 5, 2025

Principal Jon McCandlish and Associate Ryan Wall presented the 2300 Market project in a DAG Spotlight for Philadelphia’s Design Advocacy Group. The adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of two historic automobile showrooms and warehouses plus new overbuild to create a new life sciences research building for Breakthrough Properties. Watch the presentation…

January 9, 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.

December 18, 2024

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. In March, we invited Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) conference…

December 12, 2024

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. Although our COTE® Top Ten Award-winning space is already a testament to the value of adaptive reuse, we remain steadfast in our commitment to sustainability…