It’s Flu Season – is your Building WELL? Check in with what Krysta Aten-Schell has to say below and find out! HOLT Architects’ Krysta Aten-Schell, a Healthcare Architect and HOLT’s first WELL-Accredited Professional (and one of only 5,200 world-wide), discusses WELL Buildings and the positive impacts of WELL design. What does WELL mean?  WELL isn’t an acronym, it’s a philosophy.  … Read More

Congratulations to HOLT’s latest design award recipient – Le Moyne College’s Noreen Reale Falcone Library!!  HOLT Architects and Le Moyne were presented with a “Citation of Design” award from the CNY AIA Chapter on November 15th at the 2019 Celebration of Architecture event, held in SUNY ESF’s Gateway Center. HOLT Architects’ Nate Brown, Lily Tsay and Armand Damari accepted the … Read More

HOLT Architects and Cayuga Medical Associates worked together to create a new Medical Office Building utilizing the on-stage/off-stage concept. The on-stage/off-stage model offers collaborative provider work-space, enhanced privacy, and maximized comfort, safety, and efficiency for patients, doctors, nurses, and staff. The layout puts providers close to exam rooms in a collaborative environment that offers patient-only corridors and increases patient confidentiality. … Read More

HOLT Architects, located in Ithaca and Syracuse, NY is seeking highly creative, motivated, and team-oriented Architectural Designers for our Syracuse office. The Architectural Designer will help develop projects from early concept through construction and will be a trusted critical member of highly collaborative design teams. ALL HOLT project team members are an integral part of the firm’s innovative and exciting … Read More

HOLT Architects was recently honored with its 7th Best Places to Work Award — citing the firm’s focus on flexibility and quality of work as most impactful!! HOLT is a 40-person architecture and design firm and holds employee happiness, wellness, and growth as paramount. The firm offers every employee mentoring, flexible work hours, professional development, access to the latest technologies, … Read More

Congratulations to CFCU Community Credit Union on “cutting the ribbon” for its new Ithaca Commons Transformation Center! The local HOLT team, including Architects Quay Thompson and Cindy Kaufman, is proud to have been a part this exciting project that renovates 14,000sf and two stories of an historic bank building into a vibrant Transformation Center incorporating retail banking and administrative offices … Read More

The Barbara J. Burger iZone, in the University of Rochester’s historic Rush Rhees Library, was one of 13 libraries recognized across the United States and Canada in the American Libraries Association (ALA) 2019 Library Design Showcase.  Read more in the September/October online edition of American Libraries  magazine (page 38).  The showcase honors innovative architectural feats that address library user needs … Read More

We are excited and proud to announce that Kelly Maher, a healthcare architect at HOLT, just earned her architectural license! To become a registered architect, Kelly had to pass seven exams, have a professional degree from an NAAB-accredited program, and complete a multi-year, on-the-job Intern Development Program encompassing on 16 different categories, such as programming, site and environmental analysis, construction … Read More

Congratulations to HOLT and our clients for receiving design awards from the American Institute of Architects Southern New York Chapter! University of Rochester, iZone   |   Cornell Univ. College of Veterinary Medicine Community Practice Building       SUNY Buffalo State, Alumni and Visitor Center   |   Tompkins Financial Corporation, New Headquarters  “These awards acknowledge not only architectural innovation, but also each client’s commitment to creating the … Read More

Le Moyne College just received a 2018 Award of Excellence from the Town of Dewitt for recent campus renovations — including the newly renovated Noreen Reale Falcone Library. Working with the campus, HOLT Architects (led by Steve Hugo and Nathan Brown) helped  modernize the Library and manifest the Le Moyne vision of a active campus center. The renovation transformed the existing Library into a bright … Read More