2021: Our virtual reality

It’s 2021! We’ve made it!

We’ve spent nearly a year working remotely, at full steam, supporting our clients with design solutions that are more critical than ever to navigate their workspace, shape the healthcare environment and reinvent (again) what the classroom can and should provide.

Every day, our team discovers fresh ways to communicate and predict how design decisions will affect the people who inhabit the places we design. Each floor plan and configuration has implications on what circulation, collaboration (and especially celebration!) can safely look like in this new future.
We have a long history of harnessing emerging technologies to communicate design concepts—from simply stated diagrammatic sketches to fly over animations and fully clash coordinated BIM models. We look forward to sharing some of these concepts with you here.

Here’s to a year of new beginnings!

Spring Renewal

With our roots in Buffalo NY, it has always been imperative for our team at A|r to be four-season thinkers and designers. The elements have a profound and ever-changing effect on any built space, and the best designs use them to their advantage.

Solar Diagram Building by Architectural Resources

Solar Building Design

The sun is the most efficient source of energy available for human consumption. Photovoltaic systems, commonly known as solar arrays, give us the ability to actively integrate this abundant energy with the function and design of a building.

Andy Anselmo Performing Arts Center at Canterbury Woods

From Drama Theatres to Recital Halls to Multipurpose Performing Arts Centers, we have long been intrigued by the way performing arts buildings shape the perception of theatre, dance & music.

Universal Design for Public Comfort Stations

We strive to design for all at every level of the built environment. We are looking beyond Gender Neutral design to Universally designed bathrooms, or comfort stations – conceived to be accessible to all people, regardless of gender expression, age, ability, belief, and social structure.

Canalside

The reflection of silos on water and use of galvanized steel pay homage to our industrial heritage here in Buffalo, New York.