Cheers to a safe, healthy, happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year! #Twenty23 #2023 a short review of our past year at Design 3:

Exporting American Town Center Concepts Overseas By Jim Baeck, Simon Sykes, and William Lopez Of all the exporting America does with our trade partners overseas, perhaps the most interesting...

Designing Mixed-Use Communities with Residential: “The How” By Jim Baeck, Simon Sykes, and William Lopez Our last post explored “the why” of integrating residential to create mixed-use communities, this...

Integrating Residential to Create Mixed-Use Communities: “The Why” By Jim Baeck, Simon Sykes, and William Lopez Property owners, developers and managers across the globe are evaluating and reevaluating their...

The Grand Re-opening How Lessons Learned During a Pandemic Confirm our Design Principles of Social Activation and Connection through the Public Realm By Jim Baeck, Simon Sykes, and William...

Pandemic Repositioning the “Experience” at the Center of It All Brick-and-mortar retail was already suffering an identity crisis, long before lockdowns and social distancing became “the new normal.” Big...

  As shopping centers evolve toward an authentic neighborhood, retail gradually stops being the main story. Integrating office and residential components allows to bring along all essential urban activities...

Over the past few months Design 3 International has been Assisting Landlords and Tenants in Navigating the Next Normal Increasingly, landlords and tenants of retail centers across the country...

Why models? Of the many communication and design tools that architects, planners, and designers employ to convey their ideas, physical models are one of the most valuable and comprehensive...

download this article as a pdf: Creative Chaos article A trio of accomplished designers with more than sixty years of award-winning architectural design experience, the three founding partners of...