Phil Ward Phil Ward is a Senior Associate at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture (MHOA). With over 20 years of professional experience, his career has covered flagship retail, large scale commercial, ...

In a world where every square foot matters, the retail component of a mixed-use development is much more than a revenue stream—it's the gateway to the entire experience. It’s often the first thing ...

2020 has fundamentally changed our spatial routines and the current health crisis brought about a significant amount of speculation regarding how our daily lives will unfold onward. With the year ...

Over the past year or so, California-based AO has enjoyed a bump in its retail design assignments that, according to its Managing Partner Rob Budetti, can be attributed mostly to retail being ...

As one of Los Angeles’ most prominent architecture firms, Sawtelle-based Nadel Architects has seen its fair share of internal evolution. The company was founded in 1973 by Herb Nadel, originally as a ...

The project team faced a notable challenge—creating a modern mixed-use development that also embodied the design and atmosphere of a traditional Omani souq (market). The team modeled their design ...

Grocery stores are evolving. While sprawling suburban markets with aisles upon aisles of options and larger parking fields still dominate, a new typology is becoming more popular in grocers’ expansion ...

Despite shaky economic conditions that have caused a void in other real estate sectors, retail remains strong, with a historically low vacancy rate of 4.1%. Within that crunch for space, grocery ...

A combination of high-rise and mid-rise office buildings with an underground parking deck, the $227-million expansion of the existing North Hills Main District represents the latest phase in the ...

Visit almost any growing city in the country and a monoculture of residential architecture will likely become apparent—a proliferation of five-over-one apartment buildings, meant to meet a growing ...

Oystra, Al Marjan, Render by MIR. Image Courtesy of ZHA Situated 25 minutes from Ras Al Khaimah Airport and 45 minutes from Dubai International Airport, Al Marjan Island extends 4.5 kilometres into ...