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In recent years, good food has become a new American ethos, affecting everything from the way we live to the way we shop and play. RTKL vice president Keith Campbell discusses how retail designers and developers have an opportunity to capitalize on the newest trends, providing shoppers with a range of dining options and experiences.

A corner office, with sprawling panoramic views, is still an ultimate status symbol. But how do you create that sensation when a workplace has few or no windows? RTKL's Yvonne Colacion discusses such challenges.

RTKL, a global architecture and engineering practice, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland has won an international competition to expand the National Art Museum in China.

While hoteliers agree the green movement is real there is still a lot of head scratching over how exactly to make this work without breaking the bank. RTKL Vice President Steve Galbreath comments on environmentally-conscious design.

The seventh-most-populous city in Texas, Arlington is poised to become a virtual laboratory of progressive town planning and development.

Although Los Angeles may be the world's entertainment capital, L.A. Live is changing the city's landscape, adding more than 4 million SF of mixed-use development. RTKL is responsible for the master plan which covers 27 acres and more than six city blocks.

Considered "the beginning of Baltimore's renaissance," the Charles Center served as a catalyst for the city's urban revival. One of RTKL's founders, architect Charles Lamb was a design consultant for the development and offers his thoughts on its 50th Anniversary.

As the design industry faces a slowing economy, RTKL strengthens its position internationally by pursuing new global markets.

Hospital data centers are not only linked to the traditional operational aspects of a hospital—personnel records and insurance information—they are increasingly becoming critical aspects of the clinical side as well. RTKL Principal Shawn Reichart discusses the data center master planning considerations that must be incorporated into healthcare environments.

The Florida Waterman Hospital expansion incorporates an innovative design solution that not only improves the building's wayfinding, natural light and comfort, but also the aesthetic quality of the space. Michael Hoffmeyer, project manager and principal in RTKL's Dallas office, weighs in on the challenges and rewards of the material choice and design decision.

RTKL welcomes a new workplace interiors department in LA led by vice president Yvonne Colacion and the team's debut project: RTKL's Los Angeles office.

Engineering and consultancy company Arcadis NV posted forecast-beating third quarter sales and EBITA figures and reiterated its full-year outlook of 20-25 pct growth in net income. The Netherlands-based company reported third-quarter sales of 408 mln eur, up from 311 mln in the same period a year earlier, ahead of the 371-394.8 mln eur range seen by analysts.

As technology moves into a completely paperless environment with digital record keeping, remote access of patient information,bedside patient charting and integrated operating rooms, not only is the importance of technology growing, it is also becoming the keystone to many hospital expansion projects. Shawn Reichart discusses the evolution of hospital data centers.

Historically, commercial real estate decision-makers have frequently commented on what a great idea ‘going green’ was – but who in the world was going to pay for it? RTKL Principals Marc Fairbrother and Donna Becco Schroeder weigh in on the long-term profitability of going green and the sustainable benefits of the decision.

In today’s office environments, where does (or should) the CEO sit? Forbes.com explores how traditional corner offices are giving way to more open executive office spaces, with quotes from RTKL Principal and workplace interior designer Donna Becco Schroeder.

When it comes to the design of its new staterooms, Celebrity Cruises has realized that some things just need a woman’s touch. With the input of five dynamic women and RTKL as design consultant, the cruise operator has premiered “Celebrity’s Leading Ladies,” a new approach designed to enhance the guest experience.

The new Chicago office of RTKL has a distinctive address and twice the amount of space. Crain’s Chicago Business discusses RTKL’s transition to this new space, with input from Chicago-based Vice President Mark Lauterbach.

Live where you (net) work. RTKL Vice President Wendy Mendes is quoted in an article that discusses how the desire for social connections is driving the residential design and development targeted at Generations X and Y.

Contract magazine takes a look at the new, RTKL-designed $25 million outpatient cancer center at the University of Kansas, with quotes from RTKL Vice President Donald DeBord, Jr.

Located on the hospital’s Westwood campus, the three-story, 138,000-SF facility has been converted into a cancer center designed to incorporate leading-edge technology and provide a high level of patient comfort and convenience.

RTKL Vice President Keith Campbell writes on how the big box retailers that have traditionally defined suburban sprawl are being re-packaged and re-designed for dense urban mixed-use environments.

With Baltimore as the first stop on a weeklong tour of RTKL’s six U.S. offices, RTKL CEO and COO David Hudson and Chairman Paul Jacob AIA, along with ARCADIS Chairman and CEO Harrie Noy, discuss the recent ARCADIS-RTKL merger with longtime Baltimore Sun Architecture Critic Edward Gunts.

Building Design magazine explores the newly opened O2 sports and entertainment complex, with quotes from many of the entities involved in the design and/or development of the project, including RTKL, Anschutz Entertainment Group, Carey Jones Interiors, and HOK Sport.

RTKL Vice President Norman Garden discusses how retail—as product, process, and place— seems to have acquired a third dimension: a cause.

With the products they buy and the places where they buy them, today’s new generation of consumers are on a hunt for meaning, and retailers are scrambling to connect with these conscious consumers. Beyond that, says Norman, time-tested retail design and development principles, such as mixed-use, have been helping to create socially and ecologically valuable environments for decades.

Take a drive down Pratt Street, the city’s main thoroughfare, and one thing becomes clear: RTKL’s work has had an impact on Baltimore.

Calling Baltimore a “veritable museum of RTKL’s work”, Edward Gunts discusses the firm’s history in the Baltimore area and mentions RTKL’s keynote Baltimore projects, including the One South Street and Charles Center South office towers; shopping centers in nearby Owings Mills, White Marsh, and Towson; and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

Without question, retail design has changed over the last decade. In consultation with several retail designers, including RTKL Vice President Jeff Gunning, Shopping Center Business takes a look at what shoppers have come to expect from retailers—and what retailers have come to expect in the design of the places where they serve their customers.

New commercial development has transformed Washington’s Logan Circle into a vibrant urban district, and RTKL has contributed to the neighborhood’s revitalization with the design of four new multifamily residential developments along the historic 14th and P Street corridor. Among those new buildings is the Metropole, a seven-story glass tower that features 8,000 SF of street-level retail and a 25,000-SF fitness center, salon and spa.

At the whim of economic liberalization, rapid urbanization, and unprecedented growth, China, India, and the Middle East are regions that have created a buzz in the design and development world. RTKL experts Scott Kilbourn AIA, John Robertson, and Anubhav Gupta discuss the nature of design and business of doing business in these important new markets.

RTKL, led by Ron Turner FAIA, along with former NBA team president Marshall Glickman, former sports agent Louis Cunningham, and four-time NBA All-Star Rolando Blackman have formed an innovative alliance that is poised to change the face of stadia- and arena-anchored development.

Today’s consumers have wellness on their minds. Katie Sprague, Vice President of RTKL’s environmental graphic design and branding studio in Los Angeles, discusses the implications of that mindset upon the retail industry, and takes a look at how consumers’ quest for physical, mental, and spiritual wellness is driving retail development and design.

The Mondrian residential development has brought dynamic living options to Dallas’ booming Uptown district. RTKL Vice President Tom Brink AIA and Kevin Wisdom, Senior Vice President of developer ZOM Texas are quoted in discussion of the project’s success, from its architecture to the way its design scheme connects with the surrounding neighborhood.

Retail design and development can bring historic neighborhoods up to speed with 21st century commerce. Of course, designing and building complicated retail and mixed-use projects within these neighborhoods is an endeavor that has its challenges.

This article, with quotes from RTKL Vice President Jorge Beroiz, explores the nature of those challenges—and how overcoming them using design can bring new value to historic and even ancient parts of the world.