Every January, we sit down to recap the year — projects delivered, milestones hit, goals achieved. And 2025 gave us plenty to talk about. Christopher Meyers was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows, joining fewer than 3% of architects recognized for significant national impact. We welcomed David Schamer as CFO and Erin King as Senior Associate in Interior Design. We expanded our office space. We opened projects across the country.

But as we close out this year, we keep coming back to the moments that don’t make it into annual recaps.

The Moments That Matter

The project manager who spent months navigating a complex approval process, staying patient through revision after revision, never losing sight of what the project could become. The designer who watched their favorite element get value-engineered out of the budget, took a deep breath, and came back the next day with a solution that was somehow better. The team that rallied for an impossible deadline with the kind of collaborative problem-solving that only happens when people genuinely care about the outcome.

We think about the consultant who pushed back on a decision that would have been easier but wrong, elevating the work even when it created more complexity. The client who held onto their vision when the numbers didn’t want to cooperate, trusting that we’d find a way to make it work. The contractor who called early with a field condition, worked with us to solve it quickly, and kept the project moving forward.

These aren’t the stories that end up in case studies or award submissions. They’re not the ribbon-cutting moments we post on social media. But they’re the heartbeat of what we do.