Ideas

Doing Well By Doing Good

BNIM 2030 Commitment – 2024 Impact!

Design Process: Plurality, Collaboration, and Precision

Looking Ahead: BNIM’s Projects in 2025

Introducing BNIM’s New Website

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Achieving Carbon Neutrality — Reporting Progress on the AIA 2030 Commitment

The Science of Museums: Design Innovations at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Progress on the Path to the 2030 Challenge

BNIM Hosts Architect, Maria Pineda, Through Young Leaders of Americas Initiative Fellowship Program

Celebrating Earth Day: A Look into the Legacy of AIA COTE and COTE Top Ten Awards

Looking Ahead: BNIM Projects in 2024

“Reconciliation is…”

Purpose

Marquette University’s New Home for Business and Innovation – Dr E.J. and Margaret O’Brien Hall

The Power of Mentorship: A Journey of Growth and Giving Back

Thank you to our BNIM 2023 Interns!

Insights from NeoCon – BNIM Interiors on Future-Focused Design

Holding Space | 2023 BNIM Symposium

Healthcare Design: Exploring Collective Well-Being and Future-Thinking

Inspiring Design: Interviews with BNIM Women In Design – Part 4

Inspiring Design: Interviews with BNIM Women In Design – Part 3

Inspiring Design: Interviews with BNIM Women in Design – Part 2

Inspiring Design: Interviews with BNIM Women in Design – Part 1

Inspiring Design: Interviews with BNIM Women in Design

Looking Ahead: BNIM Projects in 2023

ALL – The Making of the Tom and Ruth Harkin Center

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Rectilinear Solid, Interconnected Voids: The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art

The Design Process Behind MSU Blunt Hall Renovation and Addition

Future-Proofing Education: Community Colleges Invest in Next Generation Critical Workforce by Emphasizing Equality in Education and Career Training

Leading the Future – Meet BNIM’s Summer Interns

One Future – Post WV v. EPA

Ripple Effects – Bob Berkebile and BNIM Today

*Subject To Change: BNIM’s Latest Sustainability Action Plan Report

Leadership Beyond Design – Q + A with BNIMers

Good Design for All: Implementing the Housing First Model in San Diego

Moving toward a better BNIM

Building Momentum in 2022

Grace

Practicing Wellness at BNIM

Bringing the Y Back to Downtown Kansas City

Finding Creative Synergies at University of Missouri-Columbia’s Sinquefield Music Center

Students seek solutions for “Cracking Kansas City’s Affordable Housing Crisis” with Entrepreneurship KC

Setting the stage for Summer Tableau: 2021 West 18th Street Fashion Show

Hybrid Mode – Is it here to stay?

Earth Day 2021 – Climate Justice: Going Beyond Good Intentions

The Air We Breathe: Importance of Internal Air Control Barriers in Building Enclosures

Visualizing Time | BNIM 2021 Symposium

Reconnecting | BNIM Symposium 2021

Reconciling nature and human nature through design – Spotlight on Laura Lesniewski

BNIM’s statement on the U.S. rejoining the Paris Agreement

Art Enhances Passenger Experience at the Future KCI Airport Garage

Follow the journey of “Mural” back to the Stanley Museum of Art

Uplift

A new home on campus: Stanley Museum of Art returns to the University of Iowa community

Future of Housing

When There Are Nine

Innovation is all about collision

Design for Education + Equity: The Renovation of North Kansas City High School

Subject to Change

Address – A Call to Action

Industry Viewpoints on Transformation – ULI Kansas City

Future Flow Signage for Safety and Wellness

Code and Corn: BNIM’s Technology Timeline

Return to Work(place) Survey

Future Flow – Return to a Resilient Normal

Flatten the Carbon Curve

Measuring Charity Hospital

The Year of Perfect Vision

Resiliency in a Regenerative Future

Part 4 | Women in Design: Pillars of BNIM’s Legacy – Laura Lesniewski

Part 3 | Women in Design: Pillars of BNIM’s Legacy – Sarah Hirsch

Part 2 | Women in Design: Pillars of BNIM’s Legacy – Barb Cugno

Part 1 | Women in Design: Pillars of BNIM’s Legacy – Maria Maffry

Towards a Regenerative Future

The 7 x 7 Project – Learning from 49 years as BNIM turns 50

A Specification to Meet Every Need

Illuminate the Future

Focused on Outcomes

Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway

1 | 2 | 2 | BNIM Wins Top Rankings in ARCHITECT 50 List

Redesigning Design for Global Resiliency

The Big Move – Elevating the Profession through Energy, Economy, and Equity

Awakening

Digital Fabrication + Spatial Printing

2019 BNIM Annual Symposium: Redesigning Design

Grassroots 2019: Empowering Student Leaders

Redesigning Design Through Diversity: Reviewing Snohetta’s Transpositioning

Towards Liveliness

Leading from Within – Many Models for a City Architect

BNIM’s Eleven COTE Top Ten Projects

Sculpting Light: Construction Updates on The REACH – II

Designing for WELLness

The Ideas Behind BNIM’s Latest Green Projects

COTE Top Ten 2019: Asilong Christian High School

BNIM’s 2020 Sustainability Action Plan

Miesblock Veil: Illuminating Modernism

The Voice and Face of our Profession – Grassroots and Strategic Council Initiatitives

West Bottoms Flats: A Visual Journal

Letter of Support for the Green New Deal

Defining “Good” Development at 31st and Troost

Human Nature – Transforming a Suburban Campus

Transforming Museum Experiences to Serve All – Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Seeing the Future a Decade Ago

Nature is Really Smart. Damn It.

Living Generously as OneBNIM

Field Notes from West Pokot, Kenya

Reimagining Moffitt Library at UC Berkeley

In Anticipation of the 2018 AIA KC Design Excellence Awards Gala

Redesigning Design

Sculpting Light: Construction Updates on The REACH

BNIM Offices at Crown Center – A Modernist Reconstruction

Equity in Architecture: The Current Climate in Kansas City

Guest Post: A Different Type of Building

The Arts Enrich Human Vitality

The Next Frontier in Innovative Experiential Learning

Reimagining the Library of the Future

Creating Common Ground for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

Groundswell: The Practice of BNIM’s Landscape Studio

Education on Display: The Center for Advanced and Emerging Technology

Give Generously. Spread the Word.

University of Iowa Museum of Art: Rectilinear Solidity / Interconnected Voids

Eco-Diplomacy in Kampala: How a Façade Design Envelopes the Culture

Building a Better KCI

Westport Presbyterian Church: AIA Kansas City 2016 Design Excellence Winner

Reveal: Seaton Hall and Seaton Court Renovation and Expansion at Kansas State University

Reveal: Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts

Pacific Center Campus Development: Research + Development Building — AIA Kansas City 2016 Design Excellence Winner

Response to Harvey

Race to Amazonia

Bringing the ‘Outside In’: The Making of an Interactive Fiber Wall in BNIM’s New Workplace

Storytelling through Design: University of Missouri School of Medicine Reflects Mission, History, and Culture

Confluence: A Sculptural Installation Brings Life to Kansas City’s West Bottoms

The Practice of Practicing Mindfulness in the Architectural Profession

Water Quality: Mapping the Opportunity

A decade of the Bloch Building, a Kansas City arts milestone

Lessons from Greensburg: The Project that Shaped a Practice – 10 Years Later

Artful Possibility: Interview with Kansas City Ceramics Artist Andy Brayman

Building Positive Earth Day 2017

The Agile Age

BNIM’s Identity: A Pattern of Building Positive

Rethink, Restore, and Repurpose: A New Design for K-State’s Historic Seaton Hall Complex

Serious Fun: How Tech Companies Are Using Landscape Architecture to Attract Talent | Q&A with Aaron Ross

Sixteen: How Narrative Gave a Second Life to this Abandoned Neighborhood

Mastering the Module: Unlocking the Miesian Grid in Miesblock

Oneness: a Holiday Message from BNIM

Five Key Takeaways by BNIM from Autodesk University 2016

Virtual Reality in Practice: Q&A with Brandon Wlosinski, BNIM Manager of Virtual Design and Construction

Building Positive Impact: An Information Graphic Charting 45 Years of Practice

Designing for Resilience: Thunder Valley Regenerative Plan | Q&A with Lead Planner Christina Hoxie

BIM is Dead — Long Live BIM

Designing Practice: A Human Purposed Approach

Material Matters: How Microbes, Mushrooms and Moss Could Redfine the Future Materials Library

Building Positive: A Four-in-One Prototype — The Water Story

Crown: Cityscapes in Fashion for International Interior Design Association

The Library, Future Tense: A Vision for Georgia Tech’s Research Library of the Twenty First Century

Bridging: Making Downtown Kansas City Stronger by Coming Together

Human-Centered Design for Community Youth Concepts

Vanguard

Insta-Insta-Insta: Instagram Inspiration

A Make It Right and BNIM Encore in Manheim Park

Generous Pragmatism: A Feature in Kansas State University’s OZ Magazine

The Starting Point (Cloud)

Color Couture 2014

Reflections from Halifax