2026 Annual Report
Impact by Design
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beyond carbon, toward connection
Most impact reports show off conclusions. Ours is attempting something different: to show how we think about the work, alongside the results.
Sustainability, as the profession has practiced it, is a discipline of harm reduction — less energy, fewer emissions, lower-carbon materials. That work is real. As architects, engineers, and designers, we remain committed to it — and to our active commitments to AIA 2030, MEP 2040, and SE 2050 that make accountability concrete.
But the consequences of the buildings and spaces we design extend far beyond what those frameworks were designed to measure. The questions they leave unanswered are the ones we believe our clients and communities need us to be asking: What kind of imagination is made possible? Who are these projects for? What communities are more vibrant because of them? What does reciprocity demand of this project? Whose futures are they making more possible?
Those are questions of cultural impact and no carbon metric we've found can measure them.
This is our first annual impact report. It is an honest account of a practice in transition: from sustainability as we inherited it, toward regenerative design as we are learning to practice it. The evidence is partial and still developing. We name the gaps alongside the wins.
Impact by design. Not by default.
