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Adaptive Reuse: The Barracks at Chaffee
Block Street & Building offers a glimpse into the Chaffee Crossing Historic District redevelopment. With our client Rival CRE, RDC’s NW Arkansas Office is serving as architect for the adaptive re-use of the Barracks at Chaffee, the historic structures that will become mixed-use spaces with retail at the pedestrian level and apartments above....
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Virginia Maggiore, AIA, Named Principal of RDC
Virginia Maggiore, AIA, has been named to the position of Principal of RDC. Since joining RDC in 2019, Virginia has built the firm’s practice of Retail Store Rollout and Planning, adding notable clients to the firm’s roster and garnering accolades for her work from colleagues and clients. “Virginia is constantly striving for excellence and has...
RDC Honored by AIA San Diego with Interior Architecture Merit Award for Sky Deck at Del Mar Highlands Town Center
The American Institute of Architects, San Diego Chapter, proudly announced The Sky Deck at Del Mar Highlands Town Center as a 2022 Merit Award Winner in the Category of Interior Architecture. The prestigious award honors innovative design, with an emphasis on sustainability over a broad range of categories. This year had a particular focus on...
New York Regulatory Update
Though medical marijuana has been legal in the state since 2014, recreational cannabis was only recently legalized in New York in 2021. The rollout of recreational cannabis has been slow in New York, but draft regulations were recently released and now the industry is gearing up for licensing. It is projected that the New York cannabis market...
RDC Ranks #14 Among VMSD’s 2022 Top Retail Design Firms From Around the Globe!
RDC ranks #14 among VMSD’s 2022 Top Retail Design Firms from around the globe! We are pleased to be part of this fine cohort! Click here to see the full list!Store: Erewhon Photo by: Carlos Hernandez, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP, CDT, ICC Member
New Laserfiche Global Headquarters Welcomes Employees with an Iconic Modern Workplace
The interior architecture by RDC reimagines creative office design at this 100,000-sf tech-forward environment that facilitates both in-office collaboration and a new hybrid working model. The sustainable, high-performance building was designed by Studio One Eleven. To execute the Laserfiche’s desired environmental brand, RDC Interiors...
Players Café USA Debuts Experiential Convenience Store
RDC designed the prototype for a nationwide rollout of Players Café, an experiential convenience store powered by Lotto USA. The retail space features a cashless lottery, coffee on tap, games, a scratch-off bar, lotto machine wall, and playful displays of gifts and snacks.
Cannabis Business Applications – Quick and Compliant: 3 Ways to Ensure Quality Floor Plans for Short Deadline NY, NJ, CA
While any architect, consultant, or prospective business owner would prefer to plan out and design a business over the course of months, individuals who seek to open a cannabis business do not always have this luxury. Since there is no federal cannabis business application or standard, prospective cannabis business owners must comply with...
New Jersey Cannabis Business Regulations
New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) is in the process of cannabis business licensing, with cultivation and manufacturing applications accepted as of December 2021 and the acceptance of cannabis retail applications starting on starting on March 15. Despite delays, personal use sales are still expected to begin within the first half...
RDC’s Hospitality + Interiors Team Honors WISEplace
We reflect on 2021 with gratitude for our ability to contribute to our communities. A few years ago, RDC’s Hospitality + Interiors work group was awarded the opportunity to create a safe and supportive space to facilitate the mission of WISEplace. Since its foundation in 1924, WISEplace has helped more than 8,400 unhoused women to rebuild their...
Carina Mills Elected as Vice President of Professional Practice for AIA California
Carina Mills, AIA, RDC’s Talent Director, has been elected as Vice President of Professional Practice for AIA California. She is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona’s BArch program and began her service to AIA as soon as she moved to Long Beach and joined the local chapter. Carina began her career dedicated to developing her skills as a...
Erewhon at the Shops at Sportsmen’s Lodge Studio City, CA
Erewhon is a boutique grocery store with a big mission to make healthy, pure, nutrient-rich foods and products available to all and to inspire the community to eat better, eat less and live longer. The Studio City location opened in December 2021 at 12833 Ventura Boulevard as part of a $100 million redevelopment of the Sportsmen’s Lodge site, at...
Jenni Kayne Opens SoHo Flagship Home Store
Jenni Kayne, the California lifestyle brand known for minimalist, elevated, and timeless wardrobe staples, in addition to home classics and furniture, opens its flagship Jenni Kayne Home store in New York City. Located in the heart of New York’s SoHo, the store features all the architectural details suited to the city, including lofty ceilings,...
Equinox Beale Street Honored as Best of the Year
Thank you, Interior Design, for recognizing RDC with the 2021 "Best of Year" Award for Equinox Beale Street for fitness. Interior Design's Best of Year is the design industry's premiere design awards program, honoring the most significant work of the year as well as recognizing designers, architects, and manufacturers from around the globe. We...
Carlos Hernandez, AIA, Named to AIA South Bay/Long Beach Chapter Board of Directors
Congratulations to Carlos Hernandez, AIA, RDC’s Director of Technical Management, on becoming a member of Board of Directors of the AIA South Bay/Long Beach Chapter. In this role, Carlos will participate in sub-committees including DEI, Scholarship Programs, and will lead the AIA LB/SB 2022’s Photography Competition. The AIA LB/SB Board Retreat...
Rhone Opens First California Store at Fashion Island, Newport Beach, Orange County
Rhone’s first location outside of the Northeast is now open at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California. RDC is proud to be part of Rhone’s retail expansion. This new store environment defines Rhone’s brand and culture. The concept features and inviting floor plan, hospitality area, furniture, and décor, engaging customers to browse, and...
Erewhon Opens at The Shops at Sportsmen’s Lodge
Erewhon has opened its store and café at in Studio City at the Shops at Sportsmen’s Lodge. RDC recently completed the complex interiors and as with other Erewhon markets, the design includes adapting to a tight urban footprint. RDC’s solutions entailed routing plumbing and other infrastructure to serve combination café and market. Erewhon Studio...
Equinox Culver City Earns AIA OC Honors
Congratulations to our Equinox Culver City team for the recent recognition of a 2021 AIA Orange County Design Award! The jurors applauded RDC for the Equinox Culver City location that breathes new life into an existing office building. They celebrated the reuse of a tired existing building as an example of a successful embodied carbon story. The...
Rivian in Venice, California
RDC celebrates Rivian’s first Hub – a physical location designed to encourage exchange with the local community and for Rivian fans to gather and connect. Because purchasing a Rivian can be done digitally, Rivian is untethered from the traditional car-buying experience, and free to define what they wanted a Rivian space to be. RDC is proud to...
Senior Principal Mitra Esfandiari, AIA, Invited to Guest Lecture at UCLA
Senior Principal Mitra Esfandiari, AIA, was invited to guest lecture at UCLA. She shared stories of her professional life as an architect and of the places that RDC has designed both near and far. The students enjoyed the conversation about career path and about working both locally and internationally.
RDC Celebrates Two Years of WELL Certification
It’s been a busy two years since we achieved our WELL Gold Certification in 2017. The standard has proven to be a useful tool to support healthy outcomes both across our company and project portfolio. Since our relocation, we’ve tested multiple air quality monitors which have helps us to prove the quality our space, especially during poor air...
Construction Panel Technology at Horton Plaza San Diego
The first of what will be more than 500 panels were lifted into place on the busy construction site at the reimagining of Downtown San Diego’s Horton Plaza. At the corner of 1st Street and G Street owner Stockdale Capital Partners is adding five floors to the existing five-story department store to transform it into a 10-story office tower....
Sky Deck Named One of Fodor’s Best New Food Halls in the United States
Sky Deck at Del Mar Highlands is named as one of Fodor's 10 Best New Food Halls across the US! Congratulations to our client and collaborator, Donahue Schriber Realty Group! Inspired by Barcelona’s stylish El Nacional, Sky Deck boasts more high-end restaurants (nine) than its Spanish counterpart (four), closes earlier (9:30 p.m. weekdays and...
RDC Unveils Design of Latest Erewhon Market in Silver Lake
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Full-service design firm RDC has unveiled its designs for Erewhon, Silver Lake, the latest in a series from the organic grocer and café in the Los Angeles region. RDC is architect of record for the new Silver Lake location, designing its interior space plan and adapting the building for Erewhon’s expanded footprint (12,000...