Kreitler Financial

As seen in FacilitiesNet, Archello, Commercial Record, BNN, NEREJ, April 25, 2024

Spotlight on Svigals + Partners’ Architects

Alana Lovegren, Katherine Berger, and Brian Stancavage share insights and career advice.

Svigals + Partners Starts Construction on Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen Renovations

As seen in I+S, NEREJ and New Haven Register, March 15, 2024

The Beam

As seen in Walls & Ceilings and Commercial Construction & Renovation magazine, January 18, 2024

How To Design Office Spaces That People Love To Work In

As seen in Medium magazine, January 10, 2024

Report: Time To Start Closing Schools

As seen in The New Haven Independent, January 5, 2024.

Take 5 With Svigals + Partners’ Doug Lovegren

As seen in healthcare design magazine, December 15, 2023.

20 Examples of Community Architecture at Its Best

As seen in gb&d magazine, November 20-23

5 Projects That Innovate and Inspire Across the Northeastern U.S.

As seen in I&S Magazine, November 14, 2023.

Archello Awards 2023 Longlist – University Building of the Year

Archello Awards 2023 has revealed its longlist for University Building of the Year.

The Best Educational Designs of 2023

See the full list of honorees of Fast Company’s 2023 Innovation by Design Awards in the Learning category.

Svigals + Partners Creates Community Environment for Today’s University Students

Reimagined student social and academic areas at Quinnipiac University offer inspiring spaces for learning and collaboration, fostering interdisciplinary engagement and connectivity

Modern Style Transforms Office Park Fit-Out into Show-Stopping HQ

Lab, collaboration, and office space come together in Branford, CT to provide biotech leader Quantum-Si a home befitting their innovative spirit

Svigals + Partners Transformed an Underutilized Office Building into a Bioscience Center

As seen in Green Building & Design Magazine, July 14, 2023.

In New Haven, Svigals + Partners' Memorial to Gun Violence

As seen in Architects + Artisans, June 8, 2023.

Svigals + Partners 40th Anniversary

It is 2023! This is a significant year for Svigals + Partners as we celebrate 40 years serving our community. We value every client relationship - past, present, and future. We understand our success has relied on bringing our passion and purpose to clients who share our values. We believe, through ...

Svigals + Partners Architect Whose Firm Designed New Sandy Hook Elementary School Describes Changes

As seen in America Trends Podcast, March 1, 2023.

Svigals + Partners reimagines office building into new biotech facility

As seen in Boston Real Estate Times, January 4, 2023.

Svigals + Partners Debuts University’s New Health and Human Services Building

As seen in Civil + Structural Engineer, December, 2022.

Svigals + Partners Advances Architect, Alana Konefal, Leader of Complex, Large-Scale Projects

Award-winning firm names new Associate Principal, Alana Konefal, design leader for Sandy Hook School and Biohaven Pharmaceuticals.

High-Tech Home Run: CT's Quinnipiac University Unveils Esports Enclave

As seen in School Construction News, November/December Issue, 2022.

Science Says Women Enhance Team Effectiveness, and Other Things My Intuition Told Me

As seen in Commercial Construction & Renovation's Women in Construction, Issue 9, 2022.

Jay Brotman Interviewed on KHOU Houston

Architects, including the man behind the new Sandy Hook school, share their guiding principles.

Home Away from Home

As seen in Interiors and Sources May/June 2022.

New Lodge at Camp for Children with Serious Illnesses and Their Families Promises Enhanced Experience, Privacy, Accessibility

New Lodge and Bunkhouses for Hole in the Wall Gang Camp to enhance the experience for campers and counselors alike. 

Svigals + Partners Leader Awarded Prestigious "Women in Architecture" Honor

Marissa Dionne Mead, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP honored with the 2022 Women in Architecture Award from the Connecticut chapter of the American Institute of Architects

Svigals Expands Ranks Advancing Design Leader of Interiors

Firm names new Associate Principal, Katherine Berger, and welcomes new team members

Texan Makes His Mark on East Coast

As seen in ENR New England: Texan Makes His Mark on East Coast, March 2022

Art For Social Change

As seen in CODAmagazine: Art For Social Change, March 2022

Leading a Lab Design Team

As seen in Lab Manager, January 2022

Year in Review 2021

Left to right: New Britain Beehive Bridge (photo credit: Olson Photographic); Botanical Garden of Healing (photo credit: Robert Benson Photography); CCSU Barnard Hall (photo credit: Halkin Mason Photography); Hole in the Wall Gang Camp (photo credit: Halkin Mason Photography); Halda Therapeutics (ph...

Stand for Something: Jay Brotman

As seen in The Zweig Letter, December 2021

A Connecticut Health Center's Unique Journey

As seen in Commercial Property Executive, November 2021

Svigals and BioCT Complete Inaugural Panel Series

Connecticut's biotech leaders gather to discuss laboratory space needs

Connection: The architecture and design journal of the Young Architects Forum

Omarys Vasquez and Katelyn Chapin contribute to JEDI issue, Q3 2021

New Headquarters and Labs for Pharma Startup Spotlights Transparency

As seen in Civil + Structural Engineer, October 2021

Svigals Architect Alana Konefal to Lead Connecticut Building Congress

As seen in Boston Real Estate Times, September 2021

A Facility Story: Inside IDD's new multi-use headquarters and production facility

As seen in Commercial Construction & Renovation, September 2021

Preserving and Updating Campus Facilities

As seen in Architectural Products, November 2021

Katelyn Chapin on Improving Community and Equity in Architecture

As seen in GB&D Magazine, July 2021

Building Safer Schools That Don’t Look Like Prisons

As seen in Buildings, July 2021

Award Announcements

Updated 6/25/2021 Svigals + Partners is proud to announce the following awarded projects and individuals: CREW CT – the Real Estate Exchange Blue Ribbon Award, Community Impact  | 2021 Project: Park View & Allingtown Green CREW CT Blue Ribbon Awards celebrates a yea...

Svigals + Partners Designs Gun Violence Memorial Gardens in New Haven

As seen in Architectural Record, June 2021

Twice as Nice: Svigals + Partners Completes Dual Workplaces for Leading Ed-Tech Provider Technolutions

As seen in Boston Real Estate Times, June 2021

New Haven Botanical Garden serves as memorial for gun violence victims

As seen in News Channel 8/WTNH, June 2021

Community Day at YMCA Hamden/North Haven

As seen in New England Real Estate Journal, July 2021

Higher Education Leader Svigals + Partners Completes Strategic Renovation for University

As seen in New England Real Estate Journal, May 2021

Facility of the Month: University of New Haven Venue Spurs Collaboration

As seen in School Construction News, March/April 2021 Issue

A Post-COVID Office Design Built Around Flexibility and Light

As seen in gb&d Magazine, March 2021

Biohaven opens second office in suburban Philly

As seen in New Haven Biz, March 2021

Yale Child Study Center Featured in NAIOP's New & Noteworthy Projects

As seen in NAIOP Spring 2021 Issue

Previewing the Future, Svigals + Partners Completes Second Major Workplace for Biohaven Pharmaceuticals

Art, architecture and advisory firm Svigals + Partners, renowned for inspiring environments, has announced the debut of a second major workplace for Biohaven Pharmaceuticals. The bright, dramatically-open, two-floor office space, located outside Philadelphia, serves a highly mobile workforce of as p...

University Collaboration Hub by Svigals + Partners Fosters Innovation, Collaboration, and Career Focus

As seen in School Construction News , April/May 2021 and High Profile, February 2021

Architects Katelyn Chapin, Marissa Mead Named to Prestigious 40 Under 40 Lists, Nationally and Regionally

As seen in High Profile, January 2021

3 More Walls Add to Mural Mecca

As seen in the New Haven Independent, 11/19/20.

Svigals + Partners Celebrates Designers’ Recent Honors, Accomplishments

As seen in High Profile, November 2020

Collaborating to Improve Response

As seen in Engineering News-Record, November 9, 2020 

For Biotech Upstarts, Svigals + Partners Counsels on Design for Growth

Targeting growing biotech companies hitting their stride — and their second or third rounds of financing — the architecture and design firm Svigals + Partners has emerged as a national leader in designing highly productive laboratories and workplaces where biotech innovation takes place....

Svigals Takes on Bio Innovation Conference

Svigals + Partners will be a virtual exhibitor at the 2020 Maryland Life Sciences Bio Innovation Conference hosted by the Maryland Tech Council. The event will take place October 5th and 6th. Please stop by to meet our Managing Partner, Jay Brotman, and Director of DC Office, Amanda L. Maron.To le...

All in the Family

As seen in Patron magazine, October-November 2020 issue

University of New Haven's Centennial Celebration

This Saturday October 3, 2020, the University of New Haven (UNH) will celebrate its 100th year with a unique and exciting Virtual Centennial Ball. In addition to performances by Broadway Sings, featuring legendary six-time Tony Award-winner Audra MacDonald, the online event will include a diverse a...

Art and Design by Svigals + Partners Celebrated at Beehive Bridge Festival

Demonstrating the value of art in the public realm, the sculptural Beehive Bridge in New Britain, Conn. — with artwork and design innovation by Svigals + Partners — has become a touchstone of a major community-wide festival this week.The Beehive Bridge, which reunites two halves of New Britain s...

Design Solutions for K12 Education

As seen in Retrofit. September/October 2020 Print Issue

Murals Breathe Life Into Changing Ninth Square

As seen in New Haven Arts, September 2020

In Times of Crisis, Hostile Architecture Poses a Bigger Threat Than Ever

As seen in Dwell, July 2020

Innovative Architecture Firm, Svigals + Partners, Celebrates Colleague and Names New Interiors Director

As seen in Boston Real Estate Times, July 2020

Professional Profile: Joseph Rufrano, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP

As seen in Lab Manager, June 2020

Returning to The Workplace? Here’s How to Maintain Employee Safety and Wellbeing

As seen in Hartford Business Journal, May 2020

Yale Child Study Center’s Operations Brought Under One Roof for The First Time

As seen in World Architecture News, May 2020

Planting A Nonviolent Future: New Haven Mothers Honor Victims of Gun Violence

As seen in Yale Daily News, April 2020

When Coronavirus Pivots Education Plans: How To Set Up A Homeschooling Space Anywhere

As seen in Forbes Magazine, April 2020

Svigals + Partners Elevates New Associates

As seen in New England Real Estate Journal, March 2020

Svigals + Partners Bring Art, Light and Nature into New Home for Acclaimed Yale Child Study Center

As seen in Boston Real Estate Times, March 2020

Svigals + Partners Featured on NBC Now

Discussing the Sandy Hook School and How Architecture Protects Students

Beehive Bridge Receives National Honor

New Britain Project Selected as an ACEC National Engineering Excellence Award Winner

Effective Collaboration Spaces for Research

As seen in Lab Manager magazine, Jan/Feb 2020

Memorial Garden Project Recognized by Architect's Newspaper

Project Profile: Beehive Bridge

As seen in AECBytes

After School Shootings, a Push for Openness Over Barricades

As seen in the New York Times

Svigals + Partners Named 2019 Emerging Professional Friendly Firm

NEW HAVEN, CONN, Oct. 16, 2019 – Demonstrating the firm’s unique commitment to tomorrow’s architects and design professionals, Svigals + Partners is thrilled to announce it has been named a 2019 Emerging Professional Friendly Firm by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New E...

Overpass Overhaul: Reimagined Bridge Features Public Art by Svigals + Partners, Celebrating and Uniting a City

Artwork for the updated Main Street Overpass pays homage to the culture and history of New Britain while providing an appealing pedestrian corridor that reknits communities long separated by a highway.NEW BRITAIN, CONN, Sept. 16, 2019 — Civic leaders and residents are celebrating the new ‘Beehiv...

New Haven Emerges as Biopharma City

As seen in Yale Daily News, September 2019

The Mad Rush to Bulletproof American Schools

As seen in Slate Magazine, August 2019

Svigals Creates New Home for QCI

New Haven, CT – Tech pioneers at Quantum Circuits, Inc. (QCI), working on bringing quantum computing technology to the marketplace, now have a new home in New Haven tailored to their unique research type thanks to laboratory design experts Svigals + Partners. Led by Bob Skolozdra, AIA,...

How Design Can Make Schools Safer

Architect Jay Brotman explains how he's rethinking how campuses are structured.

As seen in House Beautiful, July 2019

Svigals + Partners Honored by A4LE

We are so grateful to have received the 2019 Project of Distinction Award for Sandy Hook Elementary School from the New England Chapter of the Association for Learning Environments. We are delighted that our Biophilic design approach is being recognized for supporting Social-Emotional learning. Th...

Svigals + Partners Honored by CREW CT

Svigals + Partners is honored to have received the CREW CT 2018 Annual Real Estate Award in Best in Class: Life Sciences for its renovation of the Biohaven Pharmaceuticals headquarters.Working with an innovative New Haven based start-up company to create their new headquarters in a historic bank th...

Svigals + Partners to design a memorial garden for victims of gun violence

As seen in Building and Design Construction. 

Meaningful Work: Svigals + Partners Help Build Successful Communities

Svigals + Partners Help Build Successful Communities | By Alan Dorich and John Krukowski One of the greatest side benefits of being a construction or architecture firm is the ability to point to a beautiful building and declare with satisfaction, "I did that." That's certainly the c...

See Me, Teach Me, Heal Me

The delicate balance of designing a school after trauma | By Julia McFadden, AIA In September 2013, my colleagues and I were thrust into the forefront of the discourse on school safety when our firm was selected to design the new Sandy Hook Elementary School—site of the mass shooting o...

Riverside Magnet School Unveils Expansion

By Roxanne Squires "Designed by the New Haven, Conn., office of Svigals + Partners, the new building offers inspiration through innovative learning spaces and expands the former early-childhood facility to accommodate pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students. The project sc...

Yale School of Nursing Simulation Lab and Classroom Expansion

Size: 12,200 sf Project team: Svigals + Partners; Consulting Engineering Services; Shawmut Design and Construction Completion date: Fall 2018 New Haven, CT -- The Yale School of Nursing is celebrating the opening of its new Simulation Lab and classroom expansion. The new, st...

Designing A Safer School

On December 14, 2012, Rob Sibley, a volunteer firefighter in Newtown, Connecticut, was sitting in his office when he got a devastating call — a gunman was at&n...

Architect Jay Brotman Testifying Before White House Cabinet Secretaries on School Design Today

By Greg O'Brien Jay Brotman, AIA—managing partner of Svigals + Partners, the New Haven, Conn.–based firm that designed the new Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn.—will testify this afternoon before four White House Cabinet officials who are leading the a...

Full STEAM Ahead: New School Illustrates Power of Design for Education

Accommodating grades 6-12, the impressive and modern school integrates artwork and experiential, didactic building concepts on the inspiring grounds of a private university. Spanning about 122,000sf in five stories, the learning environments are housed behind cantilevered glass facades and feature n...

Design For Research Breakthroughs

Effective laboratory design puts a priority on occupant comfort while providing the flexibility needed to do successful work. By Robert Skolozdra, AIA, LEED AP Too many in the healthcare and technology sectors find out the hard way that laboratories are not all created equal. Lab-facility owne...

The New Sandy Hook School is All About Invisible Security

By Margaret RhodesWHEN THE 2016 school year starts, students and faculty will return to Sandy Hook Elementary School for the first time since a gunman killed 20 students and six adults. They will return to a new building and landscape thoughtfully, but subtly, outfitted with security measures desig...