Skate Park 2025 Design Competition
Every year, Clark Nexsen brings together new hires and summer students from its architecture, interiors, and landscape architecture teams across all offices for a design retreat. This past summer’s gathering in Raleigh brought together 15 colleagues who participated in an…
Design and Dance: After 10 Years of Partnership with ODS, Creative Opportunities Still Abound
This spring, Clark Nexsen celebrated 10 years of partnership with the Gifted Dance Education Program at the Old Donation School (ODS) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The partnership, which began in 2014, explores, among other things, how designers and dancers can…
Dorothea Dix Park Comfort Station Competition – Clark Nexsen Combustion Chamber
Clark Nexsen’s Combustion Chamber serves as a vehicle to fuel experimentation and discovery within the professional realm of architectural design. The intent is to provide a place to exchange ideas that foster creativity and collaboration, propagating curiosity in the interest…
Room+ Competition
Our third annual internal competition focused on designing a space – using Rhino – that makes working from home easier and healthier, with consideration given to unique or shared context or environment.
Reimagining the Urban High School to Meet 21st Century Challenges
Why fit in when you can stand out? While it seems simple, this question challenges us to create new paradigms and transcend the mundane. Whatever the medium, innovation is key. At Clark Nexsen, our methods are constantly evolving through practice…
How Clark Nexsen’s Design Combustion Chamber Ignites Innovation
As its name indicates, the “Combustion Chamber” is a vehicle to fuel experimentation and discovery within the professional realm of architectural design. Led by Albert McDonald, AIA, the chamber seeks to propagate curiosity in the interest of sustained professional growth,…
AIA Activate NC’s GoRaleigh Bus Shelter Prototype Design Competition
The premise of the go[shelter] is to elevate the status of regional bus travel for all passengers. Conceptually it is envisioned to comprise a graphically intense and recognizable system of landmarks in the urbanscape.
Magis Puppy Design Challenge
Our entry, BARK LIGHT MAGIS PUPPY, transforms the minimal child’s play sculpture with points of colorful light that can be rearranged and continually reimagined. Acrylic rods of various lengths can be screwed into threaded holes in the puppy to transfer color changing light from inside the sculpture.
AIA Activate NC Urban Housing Competition
Our entry MINT is envisioned to be a place in which the chance for stability can be offered. It is a safe place where every day human needs are met and in which fellowship may thrive and foster involvement in the larger community.
Metals in Architecture Design Challenge – Reimagining New York’s MetLife Building
Our entry PERPETUUM takes a holistic approach to the design challenge and implements strategies beyond the introduction of a new exterior skin with the goal of modernizing it with regards to sustainability, constructability, and functionality.
Architecture Workshop Rome – London Nursery School Ideas Competition: Synchronous
Our entry SYNCHRONOUS is designed upon the notion that to insure civilization has a sustainable future mankind must become in tune with its natural surroundings. Here we endeavor to harmonize early childhood development with the natural and built environment.
Architecture Workshop Rome – London Nursery School Ideas Competition: Deptford Nurture Centre
Our DEPTFORD NURTURE CENTRE entry is transformative in reclaiming the natural, sustainable and biologically diverse shoreline. By returning the shoreline to Deptford Creek, planting reeds, grasses, oysters and other filtration species, and allowing the tide to flow through the site, the Centre cleans the water and increases green space to be enjoyed by the community.