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 …

PK Studios would like to congratulate Denise Couture Cowell, ASID, CAPS, LEED AP ID&C on her new board position, Member-at-Large for ASID Florida South Chapter.
For some time, she has volunteered in the chapter as the Community Design Ambassador, working to build peer and industry partner involvement in Lee and Collier Counties.
She’s been very successful coordinating a monthly continuing education lecture series and various other events, like the HeartWalk fundraiser for the American Heart Association.
Her new board position expands her responsibilities to include tasks such as planning Industry Partner Evening Events …

At the November 12th meeting of the American Institute of Architects in Estero, PK Studios won four of the seven awards given this year in various design excellence categories.
The projects recognized by our peers this year were:

Conditioned Air Warehouse & Office (Built Excellence for Restorations & Additions)
Advanced Medical Center (Built Excellence for Interior Design)
Attainable & Sustainable: Community Design for Bayshore CRA (Merit in Unbuilt Design)
Collier County Kayak Launch (Award of Honor for Architectural Graphics)

Over our firm’s lifetime, this brings the design award total to 35! We’re proud of our achievements …

PK Studios’ Interior Design Department is pleased to announce that their recently completed hospice project has earned a LEED Silver Rating.
This building is the first LEED project in Lehigh Acres and is the fifth in Lee County with such a distinction.  The client, Hope Healthcare Services is very pleased with the project and plans to use many of the solutions developed during the design process as new standards for their future projects.
Both PK Studios interior designers on this project are LEED Certified …

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 …

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 …

The 7th annual awards gala took place last week, with 40 deserving individuals taking home the coveted “Forty Under Forty” award. Jeff Curl, landscape architect with PK Studios Landscape Architecture, was one of the winners!
Here are a few candid shots of Jeff as he made his way around the crowd:

Gulfshore Business published interviews with all of this year’s winners. Here’s a short excerpt from Jeff’s:
“When it comes to landscape architecture, he’s right there at the forefront. In his two years at Naples-based PK Studios, Curl has incorporated environment-friendly xeriscaping into …

The Cambier Park Band Shell is an award-winning renovation project for the most important park and cultural center in Naples. PK Studios won the commission to take an existing park bandshell and create a state-of-the-art facility and centerpiece for the City.

The new band shell serves as a home to all types of performances from big-band concerts to Shakespeare in the Park, and can entertain audiences as large as 7,000 people.

To cover the expanded stage and withstand 80 tons of wind uplift, a polyester fabric roof was used, which transfers loads to foundation pilings …

Jeff Curl, landscape architect at PK Studios, has been recently invited to participate as a blogger for Naples Daily News. Jeff’s new blog, entitled Design Renaissance and Beyond, got off to a quick start a few days ago.
Here is a sampling of the first few posts on the blog:

Where I’m coming from (Jeff’s background and qualifications)
Democracy or Economic Anarchy? (Amendment 4 and how it could change Naples development forever)
The Power of Place in a Naples Renaissance (Past, present, and future of Naples design and how we can improve it)
Our Sense of (Parking) Place (Evaluating …

PK Studios is pleased to announce that Brandt Henning, LEED AP, a senior associate at PK Studios who has been with the company for over 6 years, had completed the requirements necessary to obtain architectural licensure from the State of Florida, and is awaiting final approval from the state board.
Brandt Henning has been a key team member of the design of a wide range of projects for PK Studios, including commercial, civic and traditional neighborhood designs. 
In the past few years, Brandt has focused his expertise on the site planning of …