232 N. Third St Offices
Ohio’s first LEED-certified architecture office
Built in the early 1900s, 232 N Third was once a hardware store, then a neighborhood bar. When we moved our office here in 2008, the building gave us a chance to practice what we design for clients — adaptive reuse that honors the past while making the space work for today.
The previous office had separate rooms that kept people disconnected. The guiding principle for this space was simple: keep everyone together. The office is organized as an open plan with no private offices. Interns sit alongside principals, architects work next to interior designers. The layout makes collaboration the default, not something you have to schedule.
We kept the exposed brick walls and wood beams, added daylight harvesting systems, and used reclaimed materials throughout. Meeting rooms are named with four-letter nature words—lime, pine, mint, moss. Sustainability shows up in the everyday language of the space, not just the LEED certification.
The layout makes collaboration the default, not something you have to schedule.
We’ve expanded twice since 2008, adding a second floor for meeting spaces and later adding private rooms for phone calls and mothers’ rooms. Each time, we’ve kept everyone on the same floor rather than splitting between levels. The layout reflects how we think about design: open, accessible, no hierarchy in who gets daylight.
- CityColumbus, Ohio
- Year Completed varies
- Size of Project 6,600 SF
- Environmental Credentials LEED Silver Certified