Illini Studio Competitors

At Design Workshop, we shape places for future generations to thrive. Our team of over 160 employee-owners is committed to delivering demonstrable impact for the communities we serve. Through collaboration, research, creativity, and innovation, we help craft places of both real beauty and deep impact—stewarding meaningful engagement with spaces that shape futures. DW Legacy Design® is the defining element of our practice. It represents a commitment to rigorous standards of design inquiry that uncovers the right solution, not just the available one, for our clients, communities, and the environment. By assessing the possibilities of every project through four interconnected lenses: Environment, Community, Economics, and Art, we build a holistic framework for creating spaces that are resilient, meaningful, and enduring.

What has kept us on top of the market for so long? An international, highly skilled and experienced group of designers, researchers, and engineers. We employ only the best people in the design industry. Not only do they come from outstanding academic programs, they also have unparalleled industry experience and success stories. Our people are all specialists within their fields, however, they all possess secondary, and sometimes tertiary skill sets. They are qualified to work anywhere, but they choose to work here. We love what we do, and it shows.

Since 1964, Urban Design Associates, (UDA) has been innovating, testing, and evolving the practice of urban design. Our firm was built on principles. We believe that all places, urban and rural, new and established, can have a remarkable sense of place, serve as diverse and exciting places to live, and thrive today and into the future.