The Capital of the U.S state of Utah, Salt Lake City gets its name from The Great Salt Lake situated in the northern part of the state. The architecture by the architects in Salt Lake City responds to varying climatic and ecological conditions such as mountain ranges, canyons, and valleys. Another important geographical feature is the Jordan River that runs through the city and empties into the Great Salt Lake. The city is comparatively more densely populated than its neighbours. The city has a system of several municipal parks such as Liberty Park and Jordan Park. The economy of Salt Lake City is service-oriented which indicates the kind of architecture that is most likely to thrive in the city. Several international companies have their headquarters situated here that have greatly influenced the demography. Tourism, conventions, and call centres are another major source of economy and thus have an indirect effect on the local community. The 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City which has greatly influenced the in-flow of tourists ever since. It created a surge in the construction field with a considerable increase in the number of hotels and restaurants in the city.
Re-thinking The Future is a global platform for architecture and design. RTF along with our authors has curated a list of top architecture firms in various cities across the globe. Please note that the names are arranged in alphabetical order and are not ranked in any manner.
ADAXIS Architects | Architects in Salt Lake City
Scope of services: Architectural Design, Master Planning, Site Analysis, Space Planning, Project Management, Programming
Types of Built Projects: Business, Hospitality, Civil, Industrial, Educational, Multi-functional spaces, Public transit station
Locations of Built Projects: Utah
Style of work: Building Restoration & Retrofit, Design, and analysis according to existing site conditions
Website: www.adaxisarchitects.com
ADAXIS Architects has provided architectural services all through Utah for nearly 40 years. Their aim is to provide designs that awaken the soul and make an incentive for their customers and the local area. They believe they are issue solvers, and above all, talented audience members. They endeavor to consolidate the best in energy and cash-saving procedures and materials into our activities.
ASSIST Inc
Scope of services: Architectural Design, Home Repair, Community development
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Public welfare
Locations of Built Projects: Multiple locations across Utah
Style of work: Low-income housing, Initiatives towards healthy living, Housing for elderly
Website: www.assistutah.org
The University of Utah along and a few architects with private practices started the ASSIST as means to provide designing services for the lower-income sector. They are a non-profit organization that gets its funds from patron donations and mainly focuses on public welfare, designing for the elderly, and overall community development.
WOW Atelier Architects
Scope of services: Architectural Design, Art, Interior Design, Gallery spaces
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial, Hospitality,
Locations of Built Projects: Multiple locations across Utah
Style of work: Client-centric approach to design, Modern Interiors, Fabrication of items required within their studio
Website: www.be-wow.com
The motto of WOW Atelier Architects has been primarily to design to the satisfaction of the client’s needs. Thus each of their projects takes shape strongly bearing in mind the requirements laid down by the client. They primarily use wood and steel as their choice for interior finishes.
Blackbox design studios
Scope of services: Architectural Design, Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial, Multi-family
Locations of Built Projects: Across western United States
Style of work: Modern Interiors, Contemporary Design approach, Remodeling, Bauhaus inspired
Website: www.blackboxslc.com
Design approach is unique to every site, client and to the specific needs of the project. Active attempts are made at the innovative utilization of existing materials and usage of the latest materials available in the current market. Lighting and interiors they believe are an integral part of architectural design.
Blalock & Partners | Architects in Salt Lake City
Scope of services: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Programming, Master planning
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial, Civic, Educational
Locations of Built Projects: Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming
Style of work: Adaptive re-use, renovations, master planning, site development, interior design, exterior façade design
Website: www.blalockandpartners.com
Blalock and partners believe that a seamless evolution of design from exterior to interior and vice versa are essential to a wholesome design. They thus don’t distinguish in the two during the process of designing. Re-adaption of existing site conditions is also an important feature of their approach to design.
BradleyClarkArt
Scope of services: Digital illustrator
Types of Built Projects: Concept paintings for Architecture and Landscape design
Locations of Built Projects: Salt Lake City
Style of work: Water-color paintings, digital illustrations, architectural renderings, landscape rendering
Website: www.bradleyclarkart.com
Bradley Clark is an independent artist who mainly works with watercolour paints and digital illustrations. His work is in Retro-Deco style. He is also into advertising, packaging, travel art and licensing. Some of his clientele include the U.S Postal Service, Reader’s Digest, Scholastic, Macmillan and Harper Collins.
Design+Build Salt Lake
Scope of services: Architectural design and construction
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Affordable housing
Locations of Built Projects: Salt Lake City
Style of work: Design and development of affordable, energy-efficient housing, construction of designed houses, students connecting with the local community, affordable construction
Website: www.designbuildsaltlake.org
The students of the University of Utah design, develop and are involved in the construction of affordable, energy efficient housing for the local community. Municipal responsibility and community development are the main aims of this endeavor. Informing best practices to the local community thus influencing the local construction market is also on their purview.
EDA Architects
Scope of services: Architectural design and construction
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Affordable housing
Locations of Built Projects: Utah
Style of work: Architectural modernism, progressive design, the style rooted to the Salt Lake region, “Utah modernism”
Website: www.edaarch.com
One of the pioneering and innovative architecture firms in the Salt Lake region, EDA Architects aims to create spaces that engage and inspire the community. Aims at creating a healing atmosphere through education and awareness of design. Appropriate use of light and ventilation in the scheme of designing is one of their primary approaches to design.
FFKR Architects
Scope of services: Architectural Design, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Marketing, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial, Religious, Sports, Hospitality, Education, Planning
Locations of Built Projects: Utah
Style of work: Prototype design, student housing, Expansion, Remodeling, Rehabilitation, Multi-family housing
Website: www.ffkr.com
Educating students of architecture through their practice and bringing out the best of talents forward is an integral part of the ideology of FFKR Architects. They believe that design must and should reflect the client’s ideology and tastes. The design approach is focused on utilizing existing clues on-site and understanding the psyche of the users.
KP2 Architects
Scope of services: Architectural Design, Interior Design
Types of Built Projects: Residential, Commercial, Remodeling, Religious, Cinemas, Hospitality
Locations of Built Projects: Salt Lake City
Style of work: Healthy buildings, designing with site features intact, locally sourced materials
Website: www.kp2architects.com
With a firm understanding and application of ‘green architecture’, K2P architects are an architectural firm that adheres to an architect’s responsibility to society and the environment. They are best known for their construction of environmentally sensitive buildings. Budgetary and aesthetic requirements of the client are also factors that contribute to the firm’s design process.