Our versatile and talented staff together with our local and integrated international expertise provides our clients with the creative talent and management skills to design and deliver projects that range from the small scale to large and highly complex international assignments.
Our Services:
Architecture
Interior design
Historic Preservation
Master Planning
Workplace Consulting
Graphic Design
Sectors:
Commercial Architecture
Commercial Interiors
Healthcare & Community Care
Hospitality & Retail
Public & Government
Education
Residential
SHCA has designed more than 50 buildings around the world, totalling some 29 million square feet with a value of more than $2 billion. Completed projects and works-in-progress are in Africa, China, Europe, India, the Middle East, Russia, Latin America and the USA.
Our architectural practice has a culture of rigorous exploration of ideas and the pursuit of design excellence. As architects, we take our responsibilities seriously and strive to design buildings that engage people, improve the quality of the built environment, and respect a sustainable approach to design.
By sharing knowledge and expertise across our network of offices, we design for a broad range of clients, market sectors and buildings types, including:
Corporate
Education
Government
Healthcare
Hospitality & Retail
Institutional
Public Sector
Residential
Social & Community Care
Master planning is a multi-tiered system of analysis that results in a coherent and logical vision of the spatial relationship between buildings, the landscape and urban infrastructure.
Our master planning approach is to fully understand all the complexities of a site and then sensitively balance the needs of people, place, culture and commercial influences. We believe our work can enhance the public realm, improve cities and impact positively on the increasing urban world.
With master planning projects in China, India, Lebanon, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, the United Kingdom and USA, we have considerable international experience responding to the challenges of urban renewal, reclaimed land, conservation areas and green field sites.
Our expertise includes:
Urban Planning
Mixed-use Retail Complexes
Mixed-use Hospitality and Retail Development
Corporate Campuses
Leisure and Resorts
SHCA has been a leader in interior design for many decades with a significant portfolio of unique and award-winning projects that range from commercial workspaces for major corporate clients, law firms and financial institutions to retail interiors and private residences.
Our longstanding reputation for quality interior design results from our approach to the creative process. We are expert in establishing the design brief with clients; our creative teams are committed to achieving high quality design solutions that work. Our consistently creative designs are balanced with a pragmatic approach to function and cost within a very broad range of building types.
We have many long-term relationships with clients who value the quality of our work, our knowledge, and attention to detail.
We work closely with clients to get the best out of their buildings, create people-focused design solutions and interpret the intelligent expression of brand.
Our designers are inventive, passionate and creative people who take pride in improving the quality of life through design.
We are experts in designing for such sectors as:
Corporate
Healthcare
Hospitality
Residential
Retail & Leisure
Social & Community Care
We use the term "strategic facilities planning" within a corporate real estate and facilities management context to describe a process that moves beyond traditional numeric programming to include the following:
Space Requirements
Business Adjacencies
Setting New Space Occupancy Goals
Relocation
Split-site Scenarios
Consolidation Projects
Site/Building Selection and Evaluation
The modern workplace is in transition. New technologies, changing work styles and evolving corporate cultures all require buildings and workplaces to be more responsive, space efficient, sustainable, and more cost effective than ever before.
Formed in 1995, our Workplace Consulting team specialises in 'pre-design' services. Our expertise in workplace strategy, new ways of working and workplace change communications delivers business-focussed results and proven real estate cost savings for our clients.
Our expertise includes
Space Requirements Briefing/Programming
Building Appraisal
Workplace Strategy
Workplace Change Communications
Workplace Research and Benchmarking
We undertake assignments internationally for blue chip and Fortune 500 companies, helping our clients to align their business objectives with productive, efficient and effective workplaces.
SHCA has been in the forefront of preservation since the early 1950's, restoring buildings of prominence in the USA such as the US Capitol; the original interiors of the US Senate Chamber; the US Supreme Court; and the signature restoration of the Statue of Liberty.
Our recent projects include the Grade II* Listed Central Post Office Building and Sir Christopher Wren's Christ Church Greyfriars in London, together with the IRS Building in Washington and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Our historic preservation team has specialised expertise and skills, and significant experience working with civic buildings, banks, churches, residences, schools, government buildings, monuments and historic bridges.
Our expertise includes:
Historic Preservation
Restoration
Renovation
Materials Analysis and Conservation
Adaptive Re-use
Visual communication is the key to understanding our increasingly complex environment. It establishes identity, imparts information and communicates purpose; at its best, strong visual design also has the power to inform, invite and even inspire.
Design360 was formed as an independent affiliate of SHCA to acknowledge the importance of graphic design. Our creative teams design effective and imaginative solutions for visual communications and the built environment.
