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Day after day, we strive to make our clients happy. We put systems in place and guide our teams to ensure we are doing everything possible t…

DesignIntelligence (DI): Your firm’s work visibly connects to the idea of stewardship. How did that idea become integral to KPMB’s work? Mar…

Covid has forced a reckoning. The pandemic has placed a klieg-light on the intense challenges presented by climate change, health and equity…

What does it mean to influence? The ideas of changing and altering come to mind. When one influences another, the other’s perspective is oft…

With the session called to order Hawkins moved rapidly to the point: an offer had come in to buy the company…… Offers had become increasingl…

We have reached a critical point in our stewardship of the built environment. The United Nations has guidelines to meet climate change globa…

In 1962, Rachel Carson’s seminal book “Silent Spring” suggested a shift to the concept of proactive stewardship — a mind shift required to s…

The names of these areas are redolent of historic families: Grosvenor, Cadogan, de Walden, Portman and Bedford, to which one might add quasi…

There is no better illustration of this principle than the Parable of the Talents. We all know the story: Before setting out on a long journ…

I have to level with you, I am not an architect! But if we are seeking to grow our influence and become better stewards as design profession…

How lucky for those rich patrons and for those practitioners fortunate enough to win these elite commissions. But what of the rest? Where do…

This year DesignIntelligence Quarterly will reach across the planet in search of voices who not only care about these topics, but who have s…