Neuroscience Research Promises to Elevate the Human Experience in the Architectural Environment
Neuroscience Research Promises to Elevate the Human Experience in the Architectural Environment
El Centro Aquatic Center is Open for Fun
The excitement has been building. The El Centro Aquatic Center is OPEN! Platt/Whitelaw Architects is thrilled to have been a part of this phenomenal aquatic center, which celebrated its grand opening on October 26. The center features a competition pool, warm-up pool, activity pool and lazy river, as well as a multi-use room for classes […]
Platt/Whitelaw Principal’s Work Featured at Krannert Art Museum
University of Illinois’ School of Architecture recently held a symposium to bring further visibility to challenges women in architecture often experience. As part of that event, they featured the work of the school’s alumnae at its Krannert Art Museum, including work by our own award-winning architect and firm principal Sandra Gramley! At the Illinois Ar
Welcome Richard!
Our newest hire, Richard Sanchez, joins the team with design experience in education, residential, life science and retail projects. At Platt/Whitelaw, he’s looking forward to working on more education projects so he can play a part in improving the student experience. “I was interested in joining Platt/Whitelaw because of its successful history with edu
Cesar Solis Community Park Wins APWA Award!
We’re HONORED to learn that our Cesar Solis Community Park project just won the 2019 Project of the Year award from the APWA San Diego/Imperial Counties! We love designing community projects, and this one had a community of its own in our wonderful project team: City of San Diego, Schmidt Design Group (prime), BSE Engineering […]
Intersection: Architecture & Neuroscience
As students, we travel from one class to the next—one for science, one for math, one for art, and so on. Ultimately, though, it’s the integration of this learning that inspires new ideas and new ways of thinking—an integration happening right now between architecture and neuroscience. Every new discovery has ripples, as different professions consider [
Welcome, Julijana!
Julijana’s past experience focused on school design, and she’s ’s looking forward to working on Platt/Whitelaw’s variety of project types. We look forward to having her help keep our firm on the cutting edge with her diverse knowledge and strong interest in technical advances for design and sustainability. Welcome, Julijana! To support our growing fi
Teaching Future Generations of Building Professionals
Our long history as a firm includes decades of volunteering our time to teach students and young adults about the building and design industry. For many years, our staff was involved with B.E.E.P. (Built Environment Education Project), where we worked with school children to design imaginary projects. Topics ranged from designing animal enclosures for a [&he
Cesar Solis Community Park
We’re so proud to have been part of Cesar Solis Community Park, a 20-acre, joint-use #park now open in the community of #OceanHills. In association with @SchmidtDesignGroup, we were part of the team that created an active park featuring a comfort station, a concession building and picnic/shade shelters as well as two softball fields with […]