Ideas

Our design process guides us to plan for today’s requirements and prepare for tomorrow’s unknowns. Here we pull back the curtain on our practice to share that process with you.

Designing Engaging Brand Experiences

With any environmental graphics application designed by ZGF, our core driver for experience design relies upon a seamless integration of story that fuses graphic design with architectural and interior design to create a cohesive, enriched user experience.

Methodology
June 20, 2023
Graphic that reads, "ZGF 2023 Scholarships Managed by The Oregon Community Foundation."

Empowering the Next Generation of Architects & Designers

We chatted with 2023 Norm Zimmer Scholarship and Emerging Black Architects Scholarship winners Nicole Niava, Teonna Cooksey, and Lauren Jasper about their diverse paths to design. 

Community
June 07, 2023
Lobby of hospital featuring upscale design.

Healthcare Has Long Covid, Architecture Can Help

Architecture offers a solution to the challenges of delayed care. Here are Janet Pangman's tips on how to approach an adaptive reuse opportunity.

Methodology
May 10, 2023

Driving Discovery

Designing environments that effectively support world changing discovery require the weaving together of many disparate ideas, functions, and needs—much like scientific discovery itself.

Sustainability
April 05, 2023
Rendering of large airport terminal facade with a mass timber structure

Improving the Passenger Experience: An Architect’s Guide to Getting to the Gate

Navigating the airport and the so-called "passenger experience" can be stressful and daunting. These travel hacks from architect, interior designer, and seasoned frequent flier James Woolum are guaranteed to make airports feel a little less terminal.

March 13, 2023

ZGF Named a Fast Company Most Innovative Company 2023

ZGF has been honored as a Fast Company Most Innovative Company of 2023. 

News
March 02, 2023
The mass timber façade of the the Mercat del Peix Research Center.

Bright and Bold in Barcelona

ZGF and Barcelona-based firms MIRAG/Double Twist, have been selected to design the Mercat del Peix Research Center in Barcelona, Spain.

News
February 28, 2023
Plaque of award certificate issued by the National Organization of Minority Architects

Designing a Diverse Future for Architecture

Our decade-long relationship with the National Organization of Minority Architects is an important part of ZGF’s multi-faceted plan to drive Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in our industry. While our work is far from done, ZGF was named 2022 Firm of the Year by NOMA’s Southern California chapter for our support and contributions to the organization.

February 16, 2023

Designing a Concert Centerpiece

ZGF collaborates with Swiss EMD duo Adriatique on their latest tour. 

Methodology
January 25, 2023

Building a Career in ZGF’s Model Shop Community

In this latest series of Humans of ZGF interviews, we sat down with the model shop team to learn about their unique career paths into model building, the most memorable projects they’ve worked on, and what’s on their bench right now.

January 17, 2023
Top floor of Light filled atrium of behavioral healthcare facility.

UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building Wins Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Awards

The UC San Francisco Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building has been awarded Interior Design Magazine Best of Year (BOY) Awards’ top prize in the healthcare category.

News
December 09, 2022