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Hawaii Schools use artwork as a placemaking tool.

MKThink attended The Center for Sea Rise Solutions and World Ocean Council's Blue Glue Webinar.

San Francisco brings life to Downtown with adaptive Reuse

MKThink's San Francisco Offices a.k.a Ocean Plant

Adaptive Reuse is an environmental, cultural, and financial solution to sustainable urban growth.

MKThink’s mission to create intelligent places shapes solutions in community strength, healthy environments, learning outcomes, systems opti

At MKThink , we create intelligent places. Our practice closely examines the built environment and how people interact with a space,...

Figueras  recently published their conversation with MKThink’s   Mark Miller  diving deep into the collaboration on Stanford Law School’s...

The community of West Maui celebrates the opening of the new King Kamehameha III Elementary campus  eight months after the Lahaina...

In honor of International Women's History Month, we want to highlight the fantastic women driving the success of our work at MKThink ....

With a commuter-majority student body and changing student needs, the University of Washington Bothell  came out of the pandemic seeking...

Human-centered architecture  is a solution-based approach to optimizing the relationship between people and the spaces they occupy and...

A Swedish phrase, Lagom är bäst , translates to "enough is as good as a feast," or in other words, "just the right amount is best." How...

When A'23, the American Institute of Architects' (AIA's) annual convention was held in San Francisco this June, MKThink was selected to lead a tour of our office and community space at Ocean Plant on San Francisco's Richmond Edge. CEO Nate Goore discussed our concept for catalyzing human interaction and building community strength with AIA members. Our discussion centered around several key questions: Can we catalyze community through place and program? What are the key ingre

As districts across the nation ponder how to deliver universal access to pre-kindergarten, the State of Hawaiʻi is already off to the...

Collaborating extensively with SF Zoo’s animal wellness team, MKThink designed a dynamic habitat that increased the accessible range...

In the current edition of arcCA DIGEST , Mark R Miller, FAIA , one of the founders and current Chairman of MKThink, explores the role of...

Happy New Year! At this time of year, we want to express our gratitude for our community of clients, partners, friends, and neighbors....

Tactile Learning Tactical Examples for Educational Effectiveness, Participant Health (PALO ALTO, California, October 2022) – The advance of hands-on learning facilities beginning in the mid/late 2000’s initiated a successful trend, and MKThink has been at the innovative forefront of these developments. Reviewing and considering these precedents could provide a means to accelerate the reversal of learning loss and social deficiencies caused by the pandemic years. ***** BACKGRO

MKThink was formed on Leap Day 2000. 22+ years and only five anniversaries later, we reflect on the leap from that February day to the...