Updates

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

November 19, 2024

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. In a discussion moderated…

October 30, 2024

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…

October 11, 2024

KieranTimberlake staff recently traveled to the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus to celebrate the opening of the state-of-the-art New Science Building. It is one of the most energy efficient biological and chemical laboratory facilities in North America. The four-story, 177,000 GSF research center was…