Reinventing an Icon Through the Lens of Historical and Environmental Stewardship
Montana State University's forward-thinking commitments ensure campus development projects benefit the students of today and tomorrow....
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Cushing Terrell Awarded Montana State University Campus Energy Master Plan Contract
Cushing Terrell has been awarded a multi-year, multi-phase contract to develop a campus-wide energy master plan to help Montana State University increase its energy efficiency. ...
Seven Key Student Needs and the Design Tools to Support Them
By leveraging holistic design strategies to address a range of needs, a school building can help set students free to learn, grow, and be themselves....
The Ecology of Education: Designing Optimal, Evolving Learning Environments
Cushing Terrell’s multidisciplinary team uses the “Ecology of Education” as our approach to understanding user groups and designing the best learning environments for them....
Montana State University’s Beloved, Historic Romney Hall Awarded LEED Gold
Awarded LEED Gold, Romney Hall is one of the most noteworthy buildings on Montana State University’s campus in Bozeman, Montana....
Designing Educational Facilities for the Next Generation of Healthcare Workers
A strong workforce starts with a strong educational foundation, and this goes far beyond a traditional classroom or lecture hall for healthcare workers to encompass hands-on, immersive learning spaces....
Watch the Webinar Recording: Indoor Air Quality Solutions for Healthy Schools and Healthy Students
Learn how to assess and the improve indoor air quality in your school to realize long-term health and wellness benefits for your students and staff....
Indoor Air Quality Solutions for Healthy Schools and Healthy Students
If you're looking to assess and improve indoor air quality with COVID-19 relief funds and prepare for in-person learning, we can help....
The Park Academy: Education Design Turned Inside Out
An architect, interior designer, and landscape architect come together to develop an education design concept for a school surrounded by a park setting....
COVID-19 Design Solutions: Assessing School Facilities for Readiness
In response to the coronovirus, our design team is working with education clients to provide resiliency assessments of learning environments....
Design for Experiential Learning and Workforce Readiness
Associate Principal Corey Johnson describes how education facility design can help address labor market changes with a focus on experiential learning....
New in our portfolio: An illuminating student space
The new amenity space at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, is glass-walled and naturally-lit, welcoming student residents into a 24/7 lounge....
Applying workplace design strategies to the classroom (and vice versa)
Corey Johnson, co-lead of our education design studio, recently joined Sandi Rudy, senior interior designer for our commercial design studio, to explore how we can cross-pollinate knowledge and findings between markets....
New in Our Portfolio: An Elementary School Where Everyone Fits
One of three new schools in Helena, Montana, Bryant Elementary School replaces its 80-year-old predecessor, with a new building filled with potential....
New in our portfolio: Learning spaces that foster skill building
New in our portfolio is the Willard Alternative High School in Missoula, Montana, a recently completed project from our education design studio....
IN THE NEWS: For Idaho’s Design and Construction Firms, It’s Smart to Head Back to School
The Idaho Business Review focuses on the basics of Idaho school funding, the design/build process, historic preservation, and distance learning in the April issue of Square Feet. CTA education design studio lead, Corey Johnson, speaks to the planning process....
On the Boards: Town Center-Inspired High School Design
When developing concepts for the new 1,500-student Gallatin High School in Bozeman, Montana, our design team and the building committee gravitated toward a layout inspired by a town center. A place where people come together for a variety of purposes, the town center is a focal point for meetings, commerce, social interaction, and other public events — all aligned with building a unified, interactive community.
Much like in a city or town, we envisioned Gallatin High School’s Town Center as a...
IN THE NEWS: Gallatin High School Rising, On Time and On Budget
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle covers construction progress of Bozeman's new Gallatin High School with a quote from CTA architect Nathan Helfrich....
IN THE NEWS: School Board Approves Renovation Designs for Bozeman High
NBC Montana coverage of renovations to the existing Bozeman High school includes comments from CTA project manager Bob Franzen....
St. Ignatius Catholic School Named IBR’s Top 2018 Private Project
St. Ignatius Catholic School of Meridian, Idaho, was recently named First Place among private projects in the Idaho Business Review's 2018 "Top Projects" issue! Full story on all the recipients here.
Wright Brothers joined Forces with CTA Architects Engineers to coordinate over 30 subcontractors to construct St. Ignatius, the first newly constructed Catholic School in Idaho in over 55 years.
The team build the state-of-the-art, 10-acre, 56,000 sq. ft. school for pre-K to eighth-grade st...
Education team bringing ‘super studio’ to Austin’s Waterloo School
Jim Beal and Corey Johnson (principals and co-leaders of CTA's Education studio), along with architect Alex Bingham and interior designer Sandi Rudy, are designing Austin, Texas's new Waterloo School. The private high school has core values of Belonging, Mentorship, Restoration, Complexity, Flourishing, Growth, and Generosity; and will focus on incorporating the city of Austin as a classroom.
Recently, the team presented a design charrette and used an Oculus immersive VR experience to a...
IN THE NEWS: Community to Supply Ideas for New TVCC Education Center
From argusobserver.com:
The project may be in the pre-design phase, but a newly renovated and expanded career and technical education center has begun in earnest. Treasure Valley Community College, along with its hired architectural firm, has begun gathering ideas for what that center will look like. On Tuesday, the community college began its listening sessions, led by hired firm CTA Architects Engineers, out of Boise. The sessions are designed to gather input from not only college fac...
Intern Intel: Wrapping Up
Ari's summer internship at CTA Boise has come to an end. Read her closing thoughts and get insight into the mind of one of tomorrow's architects....