No Excuses

LPA Design Studios rose to national prominence by demonstrating that designers can make a real impact on carbon reduction on a large scale. The firm’s integrated design approach breaks down the traditional model, eliminating barriers between disciplines to develop innovative designs that reduce energy and water and create a better human experience. The firm’s diverse body of work has earned the industry’s top awards and set new benchmarks for building performance, proving that there is a better process for designing buildings.Design Matters: Every project. Every budget. Every scale. presents a beautifully curated collection of LPA projects that illustrate what can be achieved through a collaborative design process with architects, engineers, interior designers and landscape architects working together from a development’s earliest stages. The projects cross a wide range of sizes and types, including transformational education, commercial, civic, cultural and healthcare facilities. Each was created through a repeatable process focused on cost-effective research-driven design strategies. As a collection, LPA’s work is an inspirational model for an integrated, inclusive approach that connects design excellence and building performance.Demonstrates the dramatic results achievable when an integrated design firm commits to making a meaningful impact on the environment on every project, regardless of scale or budgetThe only large firm to meet the 2030 Commitment in 2018 and 2019, LPA has made the connection between building performance and design excellence a repeatable process with award-winning outcomes that can be used on every project regardless of scale or budgetDiverse professional organisation like the AIA, ASCE, ASLA, SEA, IESNA have all recognised LPA’s integration teams of Architects, Structural Engineers, MEP Engineers, Landscape Architect and Civil Engineers design innovation with over 300 awards in the last 10 yearsThe book is an essential study of the power of connecting design excellence and performance, showcasing the progression of a firm that is a model for developing more efficient, healthier buildingsLPA’s inspirational portfolio is a model for addressing the building’s industry’s most challenging problemsThe work provides vivid evidence that a collaborative, inclusive, research driven design process can produce better resultsArchitects, engineers, interior designers and landscape architects will all be drawn by the groundbreaking projects that showcase the value of their roles