Today we introduce and affirm our commitment to positive disruption in the way we engage our world through design.
Take a look at what's happening at Orcutt | Winslow Now.
You might be surprised at some of the remarkable work that is just around your corner… |
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Cherokee Elementary School
PARADISE VALLEY, AZ
Cherokee Elementary is officially an award-winning school! Cherokee has won the AIA Western Mountain Region Design Excellence Merit Award and has won a 2021 Best Project Award from Engineering News-Record in the K-12 Education Category. |
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Music City Studios
HENDERSONVILLE, TN
Music City Studios, located in Hendersonville, Tennessee, is designed with the latest music, film, broadcast, and metaverse technology in mind. Sitting on a massive 47-acre stretch of land, the project is a testament to Nashville's ever-increasing viability as a major TV and film production hub as the site's main tenant and partner is Monolith Studios: a virtual production and content creation studio. |
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Fisk University Roland Parrish Building
NASHVILLE, TN
The Roland Parrish building will be a centralized multi-purpose building with administrative offices, career center, lounge and hospitality space. At 10,000 sf, this building will pack a huge impact on the campus and students with a small footprint. |
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Balance of Nature Planned Community
HURRICANE, UT
Balance of Nature's global mission is to educate the world about the benefits of living a life of health and wellness. Orcutt | Winslow is working toward this mission to create an environmentally, economically sustainable planned community. The design team has developed a master plan for a globally-recognized community. This master plan showcases innovative design elements that encourage healthy behaviors, enhance critical care and healing, and promote a culture of wellness; all consistent with a triad of health (chemical, physical, spiritual): Eat, Do, Think. |
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Vi at Cavasson
SCOTTSDALE, AZ
Vi Living, a national senior living developer/operator specializing in high-end senior living, is proposing an exciting new community in North Scottsdale. Their latest development is the 321-unit Cavasson project that will feature over 470,000 sf of desert-modern retirement living. Vi at Cavasson will feature high-quality amenities including a variety of resident dining experiences, fitness, activity, and life-long learning programs; as well as several outdoor living/activity amenities to complement the interior offerings. |
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Kiva Elementary School
PARADISE VALLEY, AZ
The replacement of Kiva Elementary School focuses on retaining the positive attributes of the current campus, while correcting and modernizing the aspects that are dated. The school is designed to create a campus that functions as the heart of the school and neighboring community, while providing the integration of opportunities for social gathering and inter-personal collaboration. |
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Yuma Regional Medical Center Foothills Health Campus
YUMA, AZ
The Yuma Regional Medical Center's commitment to access to care, affordability and health options are key drivers in their decision to develop a new health campus in the Foothills community. This two-story 59,297 sf facility will provide family medicine, pediatrics, ob-gyn, clinic services, urgent care, as well as a free-standing emergency department for East County residents. The emergency department will have eight observation rooms, eleven treatment rooms, one isolation room and two trauma rooms. This project will consolidate many YRMC stand-alone facilities across Yuma and move existing staff, as well as adding new staff to the new complex. |
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Newest AIA Tennessee Board Member!
Julius Mitchell was nominated and accepted to serve on the AIA Tennessee Board of Directors. Julius will be serving as an Associate AIA member representing all Associate AIA members that are working toward licensure. Some of the things Julius will be helping with include: working with emerging professionals across the state of Tennessee, statewide BIM initiatives and planning for AIA TN for next year with other board members.
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OWchella:
The Orcutt | Winslow Anniversary Tour!
We brought OWchella, the Orcutt | Winslow Anniversary Tour to three of our favorite places: Arizona, Tennessee, and Texas! We sang and danced the night away to celebrate our birthday and the decades of life we've lived in these cities. |
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Arizona AIA Associate Award
Maria Lozada has been recognized for her service to the AIA and for her work in Associate programming by receiving the Arizona AIA Associate Award! Congratulations, Maria!
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Healthcare Design Expo & Conference
Jennifer Wilcynski, Neil Terry, and Matthew Kennedy were joined by Hushabye Founder, Tara Sundem, for their live session at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference. The session discussed the background of Hushabye Nursery, how facility design can be both supportive and nurturing to family-oriented healing, long-term success in recovery, and more.
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2021's Baconators!
Jonathan Scolaro and Susana Regalado brought home the bacon! The 4th of Bacon is a beloved Orcutt | Winslow holiday where Orcutt | WinSOWites bring in their favorite bacon dishes on October 4th, and the best dish wins a pig prize!
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Ashley Mulhall: ASHE Energy to Care Panelist!
The panel shared their experience as users of the Energy to Care program, including strategies for talking about energy savings with the C-Suite and how to join the program, discoveries made through program participation of easy energy fixes, benefits to operations and the value of friendly competition between hospitals. Panelists also emphasized energy use reduction as a major component of any climate action or resiliency planning. When asked what were the biggest challenges in facility management in the next 5-10 years, the consensus was finding and retaining talent, and keeping hospitals resilient.
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We're Growing!
All three of our locations are expanding! Join us in welcoming the newest members of the Orcutt | Winslow team: Drew Ewing, Haley Sweet, Ben Bucholz, Phillip Geiman, Kevin Simon, Sakina Dahodwala, and Alana Hyatt!
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AEC Technology
"Our company’s integrated BIM workflow philosophy and approach to our use of technology is to use all of the technology available to us, however necessary, to make the project a success. We aim to push our firm’s use of technology in the process of any project that we work on to provide a precedent and a springboard for the future development of technology use and workflows." - Marco Rosero
AEC Bytes featured how our architects integrated AEC technology to ensure the successful design of John S. McCain Elementary School.
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100th in the Nation!
We're proud to share that we've been ranked 100th in the nation for Building Design + Construction's 2021 Giants 400 Report! Our ranking represents the impact we've made on the built environment over the last 50 years. Find the list of the top 160 firms here! |
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Orcutt|Winslow is Developing a New Sustainability Action Plan in 2021
It has been 10 years since our firm developed its first Sustainability Action Plan. A lot has changed in the industry and within our firm in the last decade. Many of the goals we set for ourselves have been achieved, or have become irrelevant. This new Sustainability Action Plan will be continuously updated instead of being a document that sits on a shelf collecting dust. It will include a transition from a focus on energy to a focus on carbon. This plan will set the direction and priorities needed to achieve our goals for the AIA 2030 Commitment, and will reinforce the sense of urgency recently outlined by Architecture 2030 and the 2021 IPCC Climate Report.
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Behind the Design:
Cherokee Elementary
Young saguaros often begin life under a nurse plant; specifically a Palo Verde tree. Saguaros are extremely slow growing and fragile at their earliest years. This is a parallel with young students. Much like cacti locating themselves in the shelter of the Palo Verde canopy, students will be able to look to Cherokee as their nurse plant.
This notion of a nurse plant, used as the overall backbone of the design concept, provides both living and architectural adaptations, abstracted. |
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