Architecture

Good Design = Smart Business

Design transforms business. Kohn Architecture is a New York City architect creating places for companies and international industry leaders with a design approach that drives their goals.

Our clients come to us because they realize great design builds great companies – they hire us to help them grow and change with the times. They understand that design offers a powerful tool for achieving any number of business goals, including increased customer traffic and sales, brand awareness and staff recruitment and retention. It can also reduce bottom line costs through sustainable strategies that maximize real estate and lower resource consumption.

Experience and market understanding

With a depth of industry knowledge and an intimate grasp of the larger social and economic issues that affect business, we offer cross-market insight gained from 25 years in the retail, hospitality, corporate, and residential sectors. This expertise is both a product and reflection of long-term client relationships. In helping companies like NBC, Chopard, The Coca Cola Company, and growing trendsetting companies like Surface to Air respond to business changes and evolve over years, we continue to offer increasingly valuable insight to all our clients. This allows us to wield design as a business strategy with authority and ingenuity.

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Collaboration

Two heads are better than one. When a client comes to us with an idea, or concept, we work with them to help create the dream that they have. Like any endeavor involving serious amounts of time, money, and people, the success of a project is directly tied to a committed collaboration of everyone involved.

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Integrating market, business and design strategy

Servicing and understanding our customers’ needs are primary. We pay close attention to their needs, requirements and market to create a business and design strategy that has kept our clients coming back year after year.

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Our designs put people first, and the client ahead

We design for the people who will experience our spaces; customers, residents, guests, and employees. The idea is to create a successful return for the client and an emotional return for the people who use it. It’s our experience that a key to business’ success is creating remarkable experiences for the people who regularly engage with the places we design.

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Branding and Research Expertise

We live in and experience the same world as our clients. To better understand what drives, people, trends and markets, the key is delving into their physical, emotional and intellectual lives. What we learn we put to use. To help us explore and evaluate the users’ needs and aspirations, KOHN ARCHITECTURE employs user research including quantitative and qualitative studies such as observational, one-to-one interviews, ethnography and benchmarking. Translating this information into design is where science meets art. By interpreting these findings in the context of design, we are able to create compelling destinations that are good for people and business.

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Environments that Make Sense

KOHN ARCHITECTURE is committed to creating environments, buildings and communities that are environmentally resourceful, sustainably developed and enhance quality of life. We guide our clients to make informed decisions about our world’s limited resources.

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Sustainable Mixed-Use

We create integrated developments that celebrate the convergence of live, work and play. These environments use land and transportation more responsibly, feature a synergy between uses and infrastructure, and minimize sprawl. This design strategy reduces energy use and material consumption while enhancing the quality of the community fabric, all of which improves our environment.

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Sustainable Design as good business

The future is in our hands. We want to improve it. Good design is good business, and sustainable design is part of making good business decisions. Life-cycle cost analyses, returns on investment and brand recognition all drive business strategies that fuel sustainable design. From material selection to systems integration, KOHN ARCHITECTURE provides locally relevant solutions on a global scale.