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July 23, 2021

Lord Aeck Sargent launches as Independent Design Firm

Lord Aeck Sargent launches as Independent Design Firm

ATLANTA, GA, July 23, 2021 – Lord Aeck Sargent (LAS) is pleased to announce that it has emerged as Lord Aeck Sargent Planning & Design, Inc., an independent Design Firm, owned and operated by its Principals and Directors. Building on the firm’s 80-year history, LAS is excited and invigorated to continue its dedication to its staff, to its clients and to design excellence. “Lord Aeck Sargent will continue to provide Responsive Design to all of our clients and will be an integral part of the industry and our communities – all six of our offices and eight areas of practice remain strong with a renewed commitment to creative solutions and to exceptional service,” states Joe Greco, AIA, LEED AP, President of Lord Aeck Sargent Planning & Design, Inc.

Other Exciting News & Updates

• LAS recently completed our biannual JUST Label renewal for 2021 (https://bit.ly/3xCn7oS).
• A state-of-the-art STEM building, the Tom Apodaca Science Building at Western Carolina University, will be opening this fall (Western Carolina University - Tom Apodaca Science Building (wcu.edu)).
• LAS was just awarded the 36,000 SF Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience project at the University of Florida’s Marineland campus in Saint Augustine, FL, teamed with TTV Architects.
• The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design was awarded a 2021 COTE Top Ten by the American Institute of Architects (The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design - AIA)
• The David T. Howard School Renovation project won three important design awards from three prestigious agencies: The Atlanta Urban Design Commission, the Atlanta Business Chronicle and the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation (Howard Middle School Renovation Project Earns 3 Top Design Awards – Talk Up APS)
• The Reimagination of Colony Square, a collaboration with Beyer Blender Belle is currently opening, offering many new amenities, outdoor gathering spaces and restaurants, as well as new office spaces, like LAS’s Atlanta office; the firm would be delighted to show visitors its work here! (Atlanta’s Colony Square finishes 4-year, $400M redevelopment effort (ajc.com)).
• Historic Athens awarded LAS project, The Innovation Hub at the University of Georgia, an award for Outstanding Adaptive Reuse of a Historic Building (https://bit.ly/3yglhdh).
• Longtime client, Camp Twin Lakes, recently broke ground on their new campus (Camp Twin Lakes raises $22.5 million, breaking ground on new campus - SaportaReport)

About Lord Aeck Sargent

Lord Aeck Sargent is an award-winning architecture, planning, interior design and landscape architecture firm serving clients in the college and university, K-12 education, multi-family housing/mixed-use/commercial, and urban design/planning markets with specializations in sustainable design, science and technology, arts and culture and historic preservation. A national practice with offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Austin, Texas; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Lexington, Kentucky; and Washington, DC, LAS has won three American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) National Honor Awards and is a 2021 AIA COTE Top Ten Award honoree; has been ranked among ENR’s Top 500 Design Firms list 10 times, and consistently ranked on ENR’s Top 100 Green Design Firms list; as well as appearing on Architect Magazine’s Top 50 Architecture Firms list multiple times. LAS is a JUST labeled organization committed to equity. http://www.lordaecksargent.com/ 

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