RAMSA | Robert A.M. Stern Architects

“Every business school is different, so students are learning in fundamentally different ways.” Our design unifies existing campus buildings at SMU’s Cox School into a connected, community‑focused academic hub shaped by evolving higher‑education needs. Link in bio for the full video. Project led by Graham Wyatt and Kevin Smith with Will Gridley

One of three RAMSA projects honored with 2026 Palladio Awards from Traditional Building magazine, The Newbury of Brookline won the Residential Multi-Unit category. The Newbury of Brookline transforms a former college site into a 160-unit senior living community, integrating new construction with a restored historic house. Designed to respect neighborhood scale, it offers diverse housing, amenities, landscaped courtyards, and sustainable features. The Palladio Awards recognize excellence in traditional design across a diverse range of residential and commercial categories. Congratulations to the project team led by Sargent Gardiner and Paul Whalen with Tanya Lee, in association with Finegold Alexander Architects! Interior design: Pembrooke & Ives Landscape architecture: Verdant Landscape Architecture Photography by Francis Dzikowski | OTTO

Contextual design, balanced composition, and crafted materials connect Sixteen Fifth Avenue into the picturesque, historical context of Greenwich Village. Here, RAMSA Associate Partner Hernán Chebar presents the design principles behind this condominium tower with panoramic views of downtown Manhattan. 16 Fifth Avenue design led by Michael Jones and Paul Whalen with Hernán Chebar and Mario Cruzate; renderings by The Boundary #RAMSAcityliving

The House in Southern California has won a 2026 Julia Morgan Award from the ICAA, in the category of Residential Renovation over 5,000 square feet. Our clients sought to update their Hollywood Regency house, originally designed by John Elgin Woolf for the actress Eleanor Parker and later owned by the architect himself, and reverse changes made by subsequent owners. During the design process, research uncovered preliminary drawings in the Woolf archives that depicted a wood-beamed ceiling and a Louis XV fireplace. Once uncovered behind the plasterboard walls and ceiling, we left the beams exposed and whitewashed, and reconfigured the never-used fireplace opening with a cantilevered hearth. Throughout, we preserved and faithfully re-created Woolf’s original interior details: modestly scaled baseboards, no crown between walls and ceilings, and compact bolection-style door casings. Congratulations to the design team, led by Roger Seifter with Brian Fell! Interior design: John Gilmer Associates Landscape architect: Nievera Williams Landscape Architecture Photography: Eric Piasecki #RAMSAHouses

Our design for the UVA McIntire School of Commerce includes the expansion, preservation and renovation of an historic campus precinct. Comprehensively preparing the McIntire school for rapid growth and global orientation, this project supports innovative, interdisciplinary academic programs. Blending our design into the historic site, we delivered design solutions to: ✅ Preserve and renovate Cobb Hall (1917) ✅ Introduce the new Shumway Hall ✅ Create an outdoor courtyard and network of pedestrian spaces ✅ Connect the Commerce complex to establish a sense of place Moreover, the design capitalizes on a significant grade change to bring prominence to Shumway Hall while also converting a vehicular drive into a welcoming, landscaped corridor supporting ADA accessibility and vibrant student life. Project led by Melissa DelVecchio and Jennifer Rice Stone with Ken Frank, Kurt Glauber, Ron Ostezan, and Kasey Tilove in association with Glavé & Holmes Architecture and OLIN Photography: Francis Dzikowski | OTTO #RAMSAdesignsforlearning

15 Central Park West "proved to be the beginning of a major architectural trend [....] changing the face of America’s largest city," writes Ian Volner in Still Standing: 15 Central Park West, New York, 2007 for Architecture Today. "Its greatest asset urbanistically is its immediate visual dynamism, a composition far more satisfying than that of the solid slabs that had become the norm in residential high-rise construction." Full article: link in bio Design led by Michael Jones, Paul Whalen Photography: Peter Aaron | OTTO #RAMSAcityliving

In the heart of Boston’s historic Back Bay, 350 Boylston Street offers 219,536 rentable square feet of sustainable, luxury office space. LEED Gold for Core and Shell, the nine-story building features exceptionally large, energy-efficient, floor-to-ceiling windows in a facade of Alabama Silver Shadow limestone above a granite base. 350 Boylston offers 7,800 sq ft of outdoor terrace space, a tenant-only spa and fitness facility, onsite parking with charging stations, and almost 14,000 RSF of retail space facing the Public Garden.   Project led by Meghan McDermott with Scott O’Daniel in association with CBT Architects Renderings by Neoscape

At Facades+ Monterrey, RAMSA Associate Partner Hernán Chebar brings Torre Gala Residences into focus with “Torre Gala: Transformative Towers Face the Landscape,” a panel discussion on April 22.   Hernán will discuss RAMSA’s double-tower design located in the prestigious San Pedro Garza Garcia neighborhood with views to the Sierra Madre Mountains beyond.   The towers, along with garden walls and low-rise pavilions, shape a network of outdoor amenity spaces anchored by a motorcourt and pool courtyard, all linked by planted walkways inspired by both Mediterranean and local Mexican landscapes.   Design led by Michael Jones and Paul Whalen, Hernán Chebar in partnership with Schwarz Desarrollo and One Development Group   Renderings by Binyan Studios, RAMSA #RAMSAcityliving

Known as Ocean Terrace’s “sunrise bar” because it faces east, the amenity pool bar features unique details that thematically connect to our design solutions throughout the site. The bar is clad in terra cotta and glazed ceramic tiles, while an aquatic glass mosaic mural further enlivens the bar hospitality experience. Wood thresholds and millwork echo the Brazilian Modernism influences found in the interiors. The recessed, radial light installation overhead creates ambient glow and reincorporates the circular and radial patterns that shape the interior amenities spaces. Design led by Michael Jones and Paul Whalen with Donny Silberman, Armando Amaral, and Frances Calosso #RAMSAcityliving

Along a sweeping arc, the back porch and garden organize the butterfly-shaped plan of the House in Southern California, which we thoughtfully updated and restored in the spirit of John Elgin Woolf’s original design.   Outside the living room, a curved porch supported by Woolf’s ultra-thin colonettes follows the outline of the pool and frames the view of the city skyline. At opposite ends of the oval-shaped pool, the garden room loosely mirrors the primary bedroom, with evocative views of the city and canyon through floor-to-ceiling sliding doors and picture windows.   Landscape architect Mario Nievera reimagined the site to encourage the free flow between indoors and out characteristic of Southern California living while heightening the garden with scents and colors that draw you through the house and out to the pool and its skyline view.   Design led by Roger Seifter with Brian Fell Interior design: John Gilmer Associates Landscape architect: Nievera Williams Landscape Architecture Photography: Eric Piasecki   #RAMSAhouses

Campus planning and creating a sense of place were key themes in “Blurring the Edges: A Walking Tour of UConn’s Downtown Hartford Campus,” part of the SCUP North Atlantic Regional Conference program. Led in part by RAMSA Partner Preston Gumberich, the tour highlighted how RAMSA’s transformative design for UConn incorporated, restored, and repurposed the historic Hartford Times Building while establishing a new, cohesive, regional campus for Connecticut’s flagship public university. Connecting to the fabric of downtown Hartford, this urban academic environment is shaped by modern and historic architecture, adaptive reuse, and community-centered design. In addition to nearby Hartford City Hall and the Wadsworth Atheneum, the tour explored the Front Street District - a retail and mixed-use development previously by RAMSA. 👉 UConn Downtown Hartford is an academic–civic hub that blurs the edges between campus and community. It makes a bold statement about the power of educational infrastructure designed for shared civic benefit. Project led by Preston Gumberich and Graham Wyatt with Philip Chan Historic preservation and facade stabilization: Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. Photography: Peter Aaron | OTTO #RAMSAdesignsforlearning

A light-filled, elliptical atrium at the Nathan Deal Judicial Center organizes the building’s courtrooms, judicial chambers, conference center, and offices. The Supreme Courtroom on the sixth floor is entered through an oval lobby centered on an oculus that looks down into the sixty-foot-tall atrium below. The Court of Appeals occupies a courtroom on the second floor; across the atrium a terrace offers views to the Capitol and downtown Atlanta. Project led by Grant Marani with Philip Chan and Paul Zembsch in association with SSOE | Stevens & Wilkinson Photography: Peter Aaron | OTTO