DRAW Architecture + Urban Design, LLC

Congratulations to Jenny Morrill on her promotion to Associate!

Jenny comes to DRAW from Kansas State University, where she earned a Master of Architecture degree. She regards architecture as an opportunity for collaboration and community building. She is committed to understanding a project “beyond the numbers” and seeks to find meaning within the structure. She understands the importance of dialogue throughout the design process, highlighting the necessity of communication. With a knack for site visualization and writing, narratives and client presentations are a specialty.

We were a finalist for Renovation Project of the Year for the 2024 Builder’s Excellence Awards for our renovation project at The New Reform Temple! Thank you to the whole project team for contributing to this successful project, and thank you to The Builders AGC!

DRAW Architecture + Urban Design, LLC

Multifamily is where we live!

Stunning exteriors, efficient interiors, amenities, and connections to the neighborhood are part of our formula for fantastic, safe, and community-oriented multifamily design.

Still Flying High!

DRAW is proud to have been part of a national team of consultants designing the new one-million-square-foot LEED Gold Terminal for The Kansas City International Airport (KCI). Led by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the terminal expanded the existing original 1972 airport’s capacities with 39 new gates, retail space, and outdoor waiting areas.

Home Sweet Home

The essential architectural structure is a home. It is the stronghold in which we are safeguarded and fostered.

Here are some of the homes DRAW envisioned.

DRAW is working with the City of Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department to revitalize a neighborhood park by adding a skate facility. The design includes a sound system and music-responsive lights that the community users can access for a custom skate experience. The site design provides flood control, parking, a water fountain, a gender-neutral restroom, and bleachers to complete the scene.

The historic park is the former ballpark site for the Kansas City Blues baseball team. The Blues were soundly beaten by the famed Kansas City Monarchs at this field many times, and the park holds meaningful historic value because of the significance of the wins. The park may soon host Historical markers celebrating the original usage of the site and the inter-league games between the Blues and the Monarchs.

EMPATHY + ACTIVISM DRIVE OUR RADICALLY RESOURCEFUL PROCESS
Our Radically Resourceful approach is the foundation of our services. Being resourceful means holistically integrating viable, sustainability and wellness design strategies from the very start of the design process. We empathetically listen deeply to your needs, distilling & documenting the project & sustainability goals, endeavoring to understand your story, mission, & vision. We connect on a deep level, acting boldly on your behalf. We engage the community, promoting equity & quality of life. Rigorous research & our iterative process produce an innovative, sustainable scheme that focuses on long-term operational savings & design excellence. Our persistent responsiveness & follow-through ensure that we reveal creative opportunities within the realities of time & budget.

INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability is “baked in” to our design process. The parameters of client needs are reviewed and integrated into our sustainable designs, material selection, and fixture specification. A DRAW building is fundamentally a resilient, sustainable building.

INTEGRATED WELLNESS
Within the framework of POSITIVE IMPACT DESIGN, the wellness of our spaces’ occupants plays a vital role. We use a holistic path to wellness that makes a synergistic bond with our elevated sustainability measures, allowing us to create spaces & places that sustain & advance health & well-being.

This Arch Week Inspiration building comes from Marketing Lead Jon Dilley.

Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s beloved winter home and desert laboratory, was established in 1937 and diligently handcrafted over many years. Deeply connected to the desert from which it was forged, it was built and maintained almost entirely by Wright and his apprentices, making it among the most personal of the architect’s creations.

LINK: https://www.aia.org/architecture-week

This Arch Week Inspiration building comes from Architectural Designer Matt Hasek.

The Fisher Fine Arts Library was the primary library of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1891 to 1962. The red sandstone, brick-and-terra-cotta Venetian Gothic giant, part fortress and part cathedral, was designed by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness (1839–1912).

LINK: https://ow.ly/HlLY50RiTGh

This Arch Week Inspiration building comes from Architectural Designer Johnny Michka.

33 Thomas Street (formerly the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall windowless skyscraper in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. Standing on the east side of Church Street, between Thomas Street and Worth Street, this telephone exchange building remains a brutalist masterpiece.

LINK: https://www.aia.org/architecture-week

In celebration of Architecture Week, we recognize Centre Pompidou as a building that has illuminated DRAW founder and Managing Principal Dominique Davison for years.

Since 1977, the Centre Pompidou building, a glass and metal structure bathed in light, has been in the center of Paris. It resembles a heart fed by monumental arteries in bright primary colors. Its two architects, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, envisioned it as a living organism. The building is also built in the Beaubourg plateau, one of the capital’s oldest districts and the beating heart of Paris since Medieval times, a place steeped in history and culture.

https://ow.ly/kip750Rhjiy

Construction Update: MIZA: MAKE and SEAF
Artist Studios, Makerspace, Mina Zayed, Al Mina - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

MIZA: MAKE and SEAF is part of a master plan forming a distinctive mixed-use urban innovation hub at Mina Zayed. The plan utilizes warehouse structures and works with the existing urban grain and architecture to establish MIZA as Abu Dhabi’s Design, Art, and Technology District.

DRAW brought two buildings together with a single spirit. SEAF, an artist university, and MAKE, a maker space, will share a pavilion entrance but are distinct purpose-built spaces.

DRAW architecture + urban design is the design architect working with BDP and McClaren Construction.

Work with us!
DRAW is accepting portfolios for an Architectural Designer with 5-8 years of experience. The role assists in managing projects and developing design or technical solutions.

https://drawarch.com/careers/

We are SO excited to see this project break ground! It is going to be a game-changing resource for the KC community.

Join DRAW founder and Managing Principal Dominique Davison at KC-APA's premiere event in March - Who Runs the World: Women in Planning, Design & Construction as we hear from a panel of leading women in the field for 1 Equity CM Credit. This event is hosted at Multistudio where light refreshments will be provided.

Registration Required.
General admission: $13 Students: $7

https://ow.ly/oX4650QVYQ1

Lion House Cottacges featuered on !

These nine free-standing homes are dedicated to LGBTQ+ adults and families facing homelessness. Residents will be enrolled in the Lion House program, which includes case management, resources, life skills training, and housing. These wrap-around services are essential due to the destabilizing nature of homelessness and its impacts on health, mental health, and ability to self-sustain.

DRAW is humbled to work with Our Spot KC on this critical community-supporting project.

https://ow.ly/rfpP50QRk2M

Cottages to help grow LGBTQ rapid rehousing program in Kansas City A single plot of land off Swope Parkway could eventually become nine new homes for members of the LGBTQ community who need a place to live.

As a proud WBE firm, DRAW is delighted to on all levels of ! Happy !

Join DRAW founder and Managing Principal Dominique Davison and Mark Goodwin from Clark Construction as they discuss the KCI Terminal.

https://ow.ly/PBub50QLJWH

AIA/DBIA JOINT PROGRAM & HAPPY HOUR
You will hear micro presentations about five high-profile Kansas City projects.

March 7, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm CST

Join us in congratulating Justin Burow on his promotion to Associate Principal!

A senior associate at DRAW, Justin brings an interest in site and landscape planning, residential design, and sustainability. He is driven by the limitless possibilities in design and leverages innovation while honoring the natural history of a space. His work is featured at the new terminal at KCI and the catalytic transit hub at 1531 Holmes, among many others.

New Blog!
Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse in the West Bottoms

https://drawarch.com/new-guts-old-glory/

Join DRAW associate and Washington University alum Tianyi Han at the Architecture Urban Design Landscape Architecture Career Fair!

February 23, 2024

https://ow.ly/um0S50QGGji.