PK Studios is pleased to announce that we have won a DEA Award from the ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) in the category of Workplace/Office Design under 10,000 SF. 
This year, the society had a record amount of entries ranging from West Palm down to Miami & the Keys and across the state up to Collier & Hendry County.
The winning project was PK Studios’ own office building in Naples. While we wrote about the building last year, here’s a brief recap of the project:
The layout of the building was designed …

Open the latest issue of Gulfshore Business and you’ll find the Landmark Designs feature, highlighting “commercial spaces that make a statement in Southwest Florida.”
According to the magazine, these awards are meant to recognize projects that are “distinguished by outstanding form to suit function, which legendary architect and interior designer Frank Lloyd Wright once declared ‘should be one, joined in a spiritual union.’”
Over 40 submissions made their way to the offices of Gulfshore Business, so we are honored to be selected as one of the six finalists, with the award for …

What does the future community look like?
As architects, we’re always thinking about cutting-edge design and how we can best advise our clients. When it comes to master planned communities, predicting future trends and consumer needs is ultra-important because of the long time span of construction and enormous capital outlay.
We need to think 5, 10, 20 years ahead of our time, because that’s when sales and re-sales are going to occur and the concept of the community will be tested in the market. At times, it’s a scary thought. But …

Much of the attention in the client-architect relationship is placed on the architect. This is true all the way from the selection process to long after the project is done. Clients are seen as a fixed point, around which the architect must stretch and maneuver. We (the architects) are thought of as having to become compatible with the client. It’s an extension of ‘the customer is always right’ philosophy.
It’s not that the idea is unfair, skewed or somehow wrong, but rather a bit incomplete. Relationships are inherently a two-way …

PK Studios has recently completed construction documents on a tenant improvement project that will occupy the majority of the retail and residential space in one of downtown Naples’ newest projects – the Six10 building at 10th Street North and 6th Avenue North (pictured below).

The new tenant is Hazelden, an addiction treatment center founded in 1949 in Minnesota.
The project will have a 48-bed capacity and ‘feature an innovative recovery community approach coordinating recovery principles in life and work. It will serve those needing intermediate level addiction treatment services with a lifestyle …