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COLE Architects is proud to be recognized in the TOP TEN by Ranking Arizona for both 'Top Architectural Firms' and 'Best Workplace Culture' Categories… for the fifth year in a row! Thanks to the incredible efforts of our team for making COLE a great place to work and an architectural firm we are all proud of.

2022 has been full of excitement! Here are some of the highlights for COLE Architects:
• COLE Architects expanded with a new office in Gilbert, Arizona, joining teams with Gilbert-based HDA Architects
• COLE was recognized once again in the Top Ten Places to Work in Idaho
• AZ Business Magazine names our Gilbert office as in the Top 100 Best Places to Live & Work in Arizona
• Arizona College Preparatory received the Excellence in Masonry Award
• Ketchum Fire Station was recognized as the Silver recipient of the Firehouse Station Design Awards
• Partners In Care Hospice House received the 2022 Building a Better Central Oregon Award from the Central Oregon Association of Realtors
• Partners In Care Hospice House named winner in the Hospice category of Senior Housing News Design Awards
• Ranking Arizona names our Gilbert office as one of the Top Architectural Firms and in the top for Best Workplace Culture for 2022
• Ketchum Fire Station received First Place in the ‘Public’ category and PetIQ Headquarters received Honorable Mention in the ‘Private’ category in Idaho Top Projects
• Matt Huffield was recognized in the Power List from the Idaho Business Review
• Ian Schmidt was promoted to Partner at COLE Architects
• Our team grew with 14 new team members!

Best wishes for a wonderful 2023. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy Holidays from the Boise Office! Our Boise team celebrated the holidays with an evening out involving great food, fun games, a white elephant gift exchange, and trying to all squeeze into one photo. We also loved wrapping gifts for a local family again this year!

Happy Holidays from the Gilbert office! Our Gilbert team celebrated the holidays with an evening at Top Golf, enjoying each other’s company and some friendly competition along with great food and views.

Happy Holidays from the Bend Office! Our Bend team celebrated the holidays with creativity (check out these awesome gingerbread houses!), good food, and great company.

Another award for this great project! The Ketchum Fire Station received one of the highest recognitions in the “Firehouse” Station Design Awards, standing with advanced new fire stations from across the US. We are thrilled with the national recognition of this prestigious design award. “Firehouse” shared with us that this year had some of the toughest judges, but Ketchum was clearly their Silver choice.

Congratulations to the design team and all that made this station an amazing and beautiful asset for the Ketchum community!


Photo Credit: Tobin Rogers Photography

https://www.firehouse.com/stations/sd-awards-conference/document/21286005/station-design-awards-2022

COLE Architects is pleased to welcome Technical Designer Khalid Mohamedelhassan to our Gilbert office! Receiving a Master’s in Architecture degree from the University of Arizona, a Master of Business Administration degree specializing in Project Management from DeVry University in Texas, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from the University of Khartoum in Sudan, Khalid brings over 20 years of diverse knowledge and experience to our team.

His involvement in the architectural industry also included serving as a teaching assistant for the College of Architecture at U of A as well as in Sudan. It’s through these collaborative environments that Khalid finds passion for his career: “I have always enjoyed being part of a team and have worked on many large projects, where I eventually discovered that the more one shares with others, the more one gains in knowledge.”

Welcome, Khalid!

Renderings of the future Our Lady of Mount Carmel Adoration Chapel in Tempe, courtesy of Senior Designer Damian McGrew. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish always intended to have an adoration chapel on site with the existing main sanctuary. This 34-seat chapel will be placed inside the existing church building, across the school building and centralized on campus.

Click the link below for an immersive 3D experience of the space:
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The COLE Architects Gilbert office is pleased to welcome Student Intern Darien Strickler! After his summer internship at COLE, Darien is staying on while completing his architecture studies. He has already received his bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a certificate in sustainability, and he is currently working on his Architecture Master’s at Cornell University.

Darien is very passionate about his career: “Architecture as a profession not only allows those who practice it to know what is possible because it has been done, but also to challenge what is possible because it has not.”

Welcome (again), Darien!

Arizona College Preparatory received this year’s Non-Residential Citation Award at the 31st Annual Excellence in Masonry Architectural Awards Banquet hosted by the Arizona Masonry Council. Principal David Marr accepted the award on our firm’s behalf alongside team members from CORE and Meyer Borgman Johnson. Shout out to David Marr and Alex DeLucia for their incredible efforts on this project!

Arizona College Preparatory High School was designed to accommodate a growing student population and provide students with an alternative to larger high schools in the area.

The school features two main buildings that house the administration, classrooms, library, main gym, aux gym, kitchen/café, and auditorium. In addition, there are two concessions buildings that serve the football/track stadium and all the other athletic fields on campus. The football stadium includes large home and visitor grandstands, a press box and sports field lighting here.