We design for current and future ways of living and working. Our innovative design solutions create vibrant, live-work-play-discover districts and resilient communities.
We have a reputation for award-winning design excellence and experience with dynamic work spaces across the country and internationally. We design a wide range of commercial and mixed-use projects situated in dense urban settings, oftentimes in highly sensitive historic or planned districts. These projects extend beyond their program to engage their surrounding context and improve the urban fabric of their precincts.
ByteDance Houhai Center
Shenzhen, China
We design for current and future ways of living and working. Our innovative design solutions create vibrant, live-work-play-discover districts and resilient communities.
ByteDance Houhai Center
Shenzhen, China
We have a reputation for award-winning design excellence and experience with dynamic work spaces across the country and internationally. We design a wide range of commercial and mixed-use projects situated in dense urban settings, oftentimes in highly sensitive historic or planned districts. These projects extend beyond their program to engage their surrounding context and improve the urban fabric of their precincts.
We Design Enduring, Sustainable Spaces that Inspire and Enrich Civic Life
Flexibility is essential for sustainable resiliency. Our designs prioritize urban, walkable environments that support a low-carbon economy, creating sustainable, resilient, and healthy communities.
Cambridge Crossing: 441 Morgan Avenue
Pedestrian walkways
Interactive public art installation
Design can communicate ideals and act as an agent of positive change.
We partner with leading institutions and commercial clients seeking to redefine their missions, their messages and their ways of doing business. Our award-winning designs create not simply office buildings, but future-ready “enhanced experience districts” that foster collaboration and help clients to attract and retain the best available talent in the marketplace.
Shanghai Lingang Special Area Dishui Lake Financial Bay Pilot Project, construction
Each building is an opportunity to create community, longevity and lasting value.
Efficient, comfortable, and inspiring workplaces can attract formerly remote workers back to offices and, in the process, energize urban economies and neighborhoods. Establishing the right programmatic mix creates a 24/7 live-work-play-discover environment and enhance the urban fabric.
Lingang Science and Technology City
Situated in the Lingang New District of Shanghai, poised to be the “Silicon Valley” of China
Lingang Science and Technology City, detail
Commercial workspace require flexible and innovative environments which inspire community interaction.
During the interactive planning process, we work with our clients to assess goals and respond to emerging modes of working. Our design strategy establishes flexible, modular environments that suit current client needs and can be adapted to future ones.
The Cove, Jersey City
Memorable spaces are as important as memorable buildings.
By synthesizing input from clients, community stakeholders, and organizational leaders, we provide the right programs in the right settings. We assess aging infrastructure across systems, consolidate and rationalize services and settings, and align real estate assets with strategic planning.
Taopu Sci-Tech Smart City
Taopu Sci-Tech Smart City, Central plaza
Taopu Sci-Tech Smart City, Façade detail
Commercial facilities should be designed for maximum resiliency in the face of continually evolving systems and environmental conditions.
Flexible programs, operations, and infrastructure allow clients to respond nimbly to both opportunities and threats. From day one, our designers think holistically about the site and the process, whether the client’s goal is a LEED or WELL certification or simply planning for core resiliency.
Husu Dafeng Industrial Park
Lingang Group’s new headquarters in located in Yancheng Jiangsu, China
PV arrays on select building facades shade the building from high solar exposure
Shanghai MixC Park
Architecture can be a Conduit for Future Development
A thoughtfully designed building can serve as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization, attracting new businesses and fostering economic growth. By incorporating community-focused spaces and sustainable practices, such a building not only enhances the aesthetic appeal but also creates a vibrant hub that draws people in, stimulating local commerce and social interaction. This, in turn, can lead to a ripple effect, encouraging further investment and development in the surrounding area.
Careful integration of new construction into an existing neighborhood can create a modern and cohesive mixed-use community.
The mixture of building heights, types and uses creates a welcoming, human-scaled environment that enhances the community, fostering vibrancy and preserving heritage.
Taopu HERO Innovation Hub
The 18 & 28 story towers that situate Taopu Hero Innovation Hub within the Shanghai skyline.
Sculptural cubic formed towers mesh with stand alone office villas and smaller-scale retail.
Mixed-Use
Our commercial mixed-use environments incorporate a range of amenities to establish 24/7 live-work-play environments that are lively and attractive assets to the community.
Corporate Workplace
We have a proven capacity to work with complex programs and develop them into an architecture that enhances the identity of our clients, helps to attract and retain top talent, and promotes an efficient, comfortable, and inspiring workplace.
Residential & Hospitality
Our designs for residential buildings and hotels resolve challenges that extend beyond the satisfaction of their programs to engage the public realm.
Selected Projects
Center Block at Capitol Crossing
The Ritz Carlton, Battery Park City
Lincoln Place
Life Sciences
We design game-changing commercial and institutional laboratories that serve multiple requirements, help to accelerate discovery, and attract and retain top-tier end users.
Selected Projects
Applied Life Sciences Hub
New York Blood Center
New York Stem Cell Foundation
Research Institute Laboratory
Huawei Wuhan Research and Development Campus
Cape Horn Sub-Antarctic Center
Large Scale Urban Design and Master Planning
We untangle dense urban campuses where facilities have grown opportunistically over time. We reorganize, rationalize, clarify, and create opportunities for new development.
Selected Projects
Shanghai Lingang, Special Area Dishui Lake Financial Bay Project
North Miami Beach, West Lots Master Plan
Ennead’s Commercial Center Leadership
The Commercial Center engages in a wide variety of issues, such as tracking current and best practice design trends, attending and speaking at national design conferences, researching commercial building typology trends, and attending facility tours. The Center also compiles benchmark data on our commercial projects as well as available metrics of other major national institutions. Sustainability is a high priority in our design of commercial buildings. Regularly sharing these strategies and emerging trends with the offices allows us to better inform designers for current and future work as well as illustrate a range of design solutions and innovations.
Peter Schubert
Partner
Commercial Practice Leader
Chris Stoddard
Principal
Commercial Practice Leader
Julia Gamolina
Associate Principal
Business Development Director
Thought Leadership
Op-ed
"Stop Knocking Down Older Office Buildings. Here’s How to Reuse Them Instead."
Commercial Observer
Event
Ennead in Dialogue: Resilience and Adaptability for Rapid Change
Ennead’s Commercial Center hosted Alison Landry, NYC’s Chief Delivery Officer; Kimberlae Saul, The Battery Park City Authority’s AVP of Design and Planning; and Jack Murphy, Executive Editor of the Architect’s Newspaper, to present their work and engage in a panel discussion about coastal environments and climate solutions.
Article
"Urban Pockets: Creating Big City Feel In Smaller Places"
Bisnow
Article
As LA Embraces Mixed-Use Development, Opportunities For Life Sciences Companies Abound
Bisnow
Op-ed
"To Fix the Office, Go Back to College."
Commercial Observer
Julia Gamolina is an Associate Principal at Ennead Architects and the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Madame Architect, a digital magazine focused on the extraordinary women that shape our world. Trained as an architect herself and with a decade of experience across all aspects of design, business development, and communications, Julia is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute.
Peter Schubert fuses a passion for urbanism with iconic architecture that integrates local culture, history, and context. His aim is to create purposeful buildings and civic places with mutually reinforcing aesthetic and urbanistic goals. Peter believes that the practice of architecture is a process more nuanced and refined than simply shaping buildings; rather, it is the logic and craft of making the public space that surrounds us. He finds meaning in creating experiences that encourage the interplay between formal strategies and civic goals to produce beauty and inspiration in the urban environment.
Selected Projects
Mixed-Use & Commercial
Bairui Corporate Headquarters, Zhengzhou, China
Lingang Science & Technology City, Shanghai, China
Taopu Sci-Tech City, Shanghai, China
Qilin Science and Technology District, Nanjing, China (on hold)
Huawei Research and Development Campus, Wuhan, China
Alibaba Ant Financial Competition, Hangzhou, China (unbuilt)
R&F Hongqiao, Shanghai, China (unbuilt)
SINA Corporate Headquarters, Beijing, China (competition)
Vanke Shenjiang E16-2, China (competition)
Planning
Taopu Master Plan and Urban Design
Qilin Science and Technology District, Nanjing, China
Seoul Foreign School, Facilities Master Plan, Seoul, Korea
Hospitality & Residential
Peak Road Villas, Hong Kong (unbuilt)
Laboratories
Rohm and Haas (now Dow) China Research and Development Center, Shanghai, China
Healthcare
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Education
New York University, Master Plan for a New Law School and Vanderbilt Hall Renovation, New York, NY
Regis College, Weston, MA
Seoul Foreign School, New High School, Seoul, Korea
Chris Stoddard has nearly three decades of experience managing large, complex commercial, hospitality, laboratories and higher education projects in the US and abroad. His meticulous approach to scope, schedule and budget are matched by his broad experience in building systems and construction methods. He brings the collaborative spirit of integrated design to his work by pursuing the common goals of each project’s mission. Throughout his career he has sought to maximize sustainable and wellness features to minimize environmental impact and design healthy, resilient buildings.
Selected Projects
Laboratories / Healthcare
500 Huntington
Jefferson Health Specialty Care Pavilion
The Point
3737 Science Center, Penn Center for Specialty Care
3400 Science Center
NYU Langone Medical Center at Alexandria Center for Life Science
NYU Langone Medical Center, Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry Clinical & Research Facility
Child Mind Institute
Commercial
The Cove, Jersey City
Miami Design District, Jungle Plaza
West Palm Beach, Blueway Park
Brookfield Properties, Halley Rise Block G Mixed-Use Office Tower
Fast Retail Design & Innovation Center
505 Fifth Avenue