Full inpatient and outpatient services will be provided at the new Penn State Health Hampden hospital, including emergency medicine, labor and delivery, radiation oncology and more.

The premier industry ranking for US-based architecture companies, Architect 50 differentiates itself by measuring firms not by size or revenue, but on business and sustainability performance and design excellence.

Civic projects come with additional opportunities and challenges when it comes to community buy-in.

Bayhealth’s Sussex Campus, opened in February 2019, was designed and delivered using Integrated Project Delivery.

Across all our offices, we spent a day giving back to the communities in which we live and work.

Forbes profiles the University of Maryland' s Cole Field House in a new feature story on the building's dynamic design and program integration.

Juliet Rogers, president of Blue Cottage of CannonDesign, will lead a session at the Center for Health Design’s upcoming Pebble-In-Practice Workshop in Baltimore.

Designers from the Baltimore office recently completed an entry into the AIA Baltimore Edge Competition. The cities chapter put on the competition in concert with the spring lecture series that brought in academics, local experts, and nationally recognized designers to discuss Edges, and the inner harbor of Baltimore. The Edge: Harbor and the City had the prompt of asking if a built structure could be placed on the harbor’s edge to link the land and the sea, the city and the harbor. CannonDesign Baltimore, took the prompt further and explored along a long-buried historic waterway into the harbor: the Jones Falls. The competition limited the group to four images and...

Sheppard Pratt Health System (SPHS) recently celebrated a major construction milestone on its new Behavioral Health facility in Howard County, Maryland with a topping-out ceremony – the point during construction at which a building has reached its highest, final height. Key leaders from SPHS, along with members of the design and construction teams, all signed the final beam that was hoisted into place at the top of the three-story building. CannonDesign has been leading the planning and design of the new 85-bed, 156,000-sf hospital on the Sheppard Pratt campus that emphasizes exposure to nature as part of the healing process. This building is the first to be built on Sheppard...

Last month CannonDesign’s Baltimore office opened its doors to students from the Baltimore Design School (BDS) for a new program aimed at providing a glimpse in a day of a designer. Where prior programs have focused mainly on visiting and teaching in already familiar school environments, the first-ever Designer for A Day brought students into a working design office to engage them in activities focused in the day-to-day work of CannonDesign. The day began with a welcome and introduction to CannonDesign Baltimore, led by Mike Glaros, the Baltimore Office Practice Leader. Students reviewed the agenda for the day, went on a quick office tour, asked questions about the profession, and...

CannonDesign remains one of the leading health design firms in the world per Modern Healthcare's annual Design & Construction survey.

Monica Pascatore will lead a speed session for the annual 2019 NRPA Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD.

It has been 49 years since our first Earth Day in 1970. Forty-nine years is quite a run. The passion and awareness ignited during those inaugural events in 1970 have driven significant positive change in our relationship with the natural environment. Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and many will undoubtedly hoist up that number proudly. This year, however, let’s focus on a different number: 11. According to a report released in 2018 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we must halve our emissions by 2030 to avoid a future defined by catastrophic climate change. That deadline is just 11 years away. CannonDesign knows...

The Virginia Tech Student Wellness Project was on display recently at the fourth annual AIA Baltimore Health + Wellness Showcase. Intended to be a discussion within the design and construction community of Baltimore, the event highlights projects making a positive effect on health and wellness. As an AIA Baltimore Member and the project’s lead designer, I was excited to present the project – discussing an overview of the project’s process, its integration of programmatic elements and departments, its unique design features, and the transformative effect it will have on holistic student wellness at Virginia Tech. In the call for submissions, AIA Baltimore described the effect designers have on developing healthier communities:...

Our office is partnering with the Baltimore Design School for Designer for a Day. This is a program that will give students the opportunity to visit our office and see how their work in school relates to the profession. The Baltimore Design School is a public city school that has a focus on architecture, graphic design and fashion design. As a public school, BDS follows the state curriculum but strives to integrate design thinking into every aspect of education. I had the opportunity to tour the school yesterday and learn about how it has evolved since opening its doors seven years ago. It was an insightful experience for multiple reasons: I...