Small Investment, Big Impact
How small-scale renovations can enhance the look and feel of senior living communities and positively impact residents’ emotional and mental well-being. When we think about impactful renovations, we...
View ArticleResilient Design Solutions: Administrative Environments in Higher Education
A discussion about the perceived long-term impacts of COVID-19, and ways colleges and universities can adapt spaces to minimize exposure risks, keep teams healthy and strengthen organizational culture....
View ArticleWELL Design Series: Reckoning with Pandemics and Tsunamis
How the WELL Building Standard can address the need for safe and healthy multifamily communities for the next generation of seniors. The Silver Tsunami. It sounds like a phrase we might use to announce...
View ArticleFrom the Ground Up: Integrating Story and Site in Higher Education
Exploring RDG’s innovative collaboration with Des Moines University to design a cutting-edge new health science education campus. The year: 12,000 B.C. The place: what we know today as Des Moines,...
View ArticleDesigning at the Intersection of Workplace and Urban Environments
An exploration of how to create programmable outdoor workspaces that offer choice and improve physical, emotional and cognitive well-being. The beginning of 2020 came with significant uncertainty. As...
View ArticleMy Summer at RDG
RDG Planning & Design’s interns reflect on their 2021 experience. Each summer RDG Planning & Design welcomes a group of summer interns to the firm, offering students a real-life lens into the...
View ArticleA Blueprint for Success: Recognizing Women in Planning and Design
The first in RDG’s Women’s History Month series featuring women who challenge us to be better, dream boldly and create meaning together in everything we do. Women have shaped our lives and communities...
View ArticleWomen’s History Month Series, Part One: Speak Up and Be Who You Are
Our first installment of RDG’s Women’s History Month series encourages women to use their voices, advocate for each other and seek out ways to be their authentic selves. Every March, Women’s History...
View ArticleWomen’s History Month Series, Part Two: There’s No One Right Path
Our second installment of RDG’s Women’s History Month series explores why representation matters and what it looks like to carve your unique path to success. Last week, we officially kicked off our...
View ArticleMe and We Spaces: Evolving Workplace Design
Employee preferences and a renewed emphasis on flexibility are shifting the way we design the commercial real estate workplace. The modern workplace is undergoing a significant transformation. The...
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