The Inside Story of

PKHLS Architecture

PKHLS Architecture is a recognized leader in innovative design and community-based architecture throughout the Midwest. We have a strong community sensibility, and a deep desire to partner with communities and neighborhoods to ensure they remain stable, growing and vibrant.

We offer a unique combination of local presence and regional market reach through a growing network of responsive satellite offices tightly linked to large scale, centralized production and support facilities.

Our 60-year history is best showcased in our insistence on protecting community integrity, regardless of the scope, size or location of a project. We respect the past when we preserve architectural continuity in a community or area. More important, we validate the future.

community architecture

Learning from Las Vegas Revisited

On a recent trip to Las Vegas, I noted this Frank Gehry [...]

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Divination

While watching a friend play Farmville online recently, I heard her say, “Look, I have a schoolhouse…but I don’t have enough money for the library.”

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Ever changing winds

I heard a new term today: memory restoration.

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