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KTGY Architecture + Planning
ISIN🆔
IndustryArchitecture
Founded 📆1991
Founder 👔
Headquarters 🏙️Irvine
Area served 🗺️
Members
Number of employees
395
🌐 Websitewww.ktgy.com
📇 Address
📞 telephone

KTGY Architecture + Planning has offices in Los Angeles, Irvine, Oakland, Denver, Chicago, and Tysons. The KTGY acronym comprises the first initial of the last names of its eight principal founders.[1] KTGY in Los Angeles has recently moved into the restored Historic Trust Building[2]

Clients[edit]

Multifamily Housing[edit]

KTGY provides architectural and planning services to large multi-family residential developers such as Greystar Real Estate Partners,[3] St. Anton Partners,[4] Pac Ten Partners,[5] Sudberry Properties,[6] GK Titletown Developers - Titletown District[7] D.H. Friedman Properties,[8] Trammell Crow Company,[9] Lennar Multifamily Communities (LMC)[10] Planet Home Living,[11] Aedis Real Estate Group[12] and others. KTGY is a leading architectural designer for multi-family development in the United States.[13] The company supports live, work, play communities that lower vehicle travel and carbon emissions through the design of mixed-use developments,[14] and high rise apartments with office and shopping.[15] The firm is also noted for designing work-from-home spaces into apartment complexes.[16] KTGY also designs for the luxury apartment market.[17] [18] [19]

Single-family Housing[edit]

KTGY provides architectural and planning services to single-family builders and developers including Atlantic Builders,[20] Brookfield Residential, Lennar Homes,[21] KB Home,[22] CalAtlantic, Trumark Homes, D.R. Horton, Pulte Homes, [23] Shea Homes,[24] Summerhill Apartment Communities,[25] Toll Brothers,[26] Tri Pointe Homes,[27] The firm serves developers promoting sustainable design, such as for zero energy homes. [28]

Affordable Housing[edit]

Homeless Housing[edit]

KTGY innovated the design for quick-build shipping container styled modular apartments to assist the city of Los Angeles provide affordable housing to the transitionally homeless.[29] [30] Additionally they have promoted designs for the re-purposing of vacant big box stores also to serve homelessness.[31] [32]

Micro Housing[edit]

To address affordable housing in metropolitan areas, KTGY has designed the micro-unit also called the microapartment which reduces apartment square footage and is coupled with large shared community spaces.[33]

Macro Housing[edit]

KTGY pioneered the Macro-Unit design creating affordable housing solutions by combining private bedrooms and baths with shared spaces such as the living room, kitchen and dining areas. Macro-housing buildings provide lower rents and a built-in social community and efficiently use limited city land space.[34]

Commercial Architecture[edit]

The firm also works in commercial and mixed-use projects among them the Barnes & Thornburg Building in South Bend, IN.[35] and retail design in Orange County, California.[36]

References[edit]

  1. Lee, Cristina, "KTGY Group Lands Resort Project in Mexico: The fledgling Irvine architectural firm started by eight renegades from CYP Inc. has done well despite the recession." Los Angeles Times, June 8, 1992:
  2. Roger Vincent, Spring Street’s revival spreads to a downtown landmark: the Trust Building Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2019
  3. Mary Ann Azevedo, "Real Estate Deals of the Year: Elan Menlo Park", San Francisco Business Times, March 22, 2018,
  4. Andrew S Ross, "Facebook, partner to build Menlo Park housing complex", San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2013
  5. R. Daniel Foster, "No yard? No problem. These homes are making outdoor living climb to new heights" Los Angeles Times, August 17, 2018
  6. Phillip Molnar, Mission Valley’s Civita breaks ground on low-income rentals The San Diego Union Tribune, April 8th, 2018:
  7. Richard Ryman, Phase 2 of Green Bay Packers' Titletown District construction could begin in JuneGreen Bay Gazette, April 15, 2019
  8. Emilie Rusch, Office building, condos, apartments to kick-start Central Park Station development in Stapleton.Denver Post, June 6, 2017
  9. Blanca Torres, First look: Trammell Crow debuts huge new Oakland apartment complex San Francisco Business Times, September 5, 2019
  10. Danielle Chemtor, Work begins on tower in the ‘final frontier’ of uptown development. Developer is Lennar MultifamilyCharlotte Observer, March 6, 2019
  11. R. Daniel Foster, For single-family homes on small lots, builders must up their game. Los Angeles Times, April 20, 2018:
  12. Julia Brenner, New Modular Housing Model Tackles Affordable Housing Crisis In Los AngelesForbes Magazine, October 30, 2019:
  13. "TOP 150 MULTIFAMILY ARCHITECTURE + AE FIRMS". Building Design and Construction Magazine. United States: BCD Network. 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  14. Ely Portillo, More apartments are coming to Park Road, after developer snaps up site for $11 million The Charlotte Observer July 5, 2017
  15. Jason Thomas, The Market 42 high-rise apartment project is ready to shape the north side of UptownCharlotte Agenda, December 14, 2017
  16. Cecilie Rohwedder, Working From Home? Real-Estate Developers Are Here to Help - Video The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2018
  17. Sarah Gantz, Anthem House apartments in Locust Point to open in June The Baltimore Sun, April 28, 2017
  18. Audrey Hoffer, In some residential neighborhoods, art is bigger than ever The Washington Post, July 12, 2018
  19. Denise M. Bonilla, AvalonBay plans more than 300 luxury rentals at site of former hospital in Amityville Newsday, July 2, 2019
  20. And the Winner Is…The 2019 Great American Living Awards recognize the best in home design and community planning in Maryland, DC and Virginia Home and Design Magazine, Jan/Feb 2020
  21. Julian Ramos, Lennar debuts conceptual renderings for Warm Springs developmentSan Jose Mercury News, August 12, 2016
  22. Katherine Salant,Oh, for a home that soothes and protects you Washington Post, April 11, 2019
  23. Roland Li, Exclusive: $1 billion East Bay housing project opens first homes, 800 planned San Francisco Business Times, September 26, 2016:
  24. People on the Move: July 22, 2019The Las Vegas Sun, July 22, 2019
  25. After 40 Years, Pasadena Heritage Continues to Watchdog Aggressive Development, Mansionization, and More Pasadena Now, January 24, 2018
  26. Deborah K. Dietsch, Four-story townhouses with big windows, lots of options in Reston, Va. Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2019
  27. Will Macht, Urbanizing a Former Naval Air Station in San Francisco Bay Urban Land Magazine, August 24, 2018
  28. Jeff Collins, How an Orange County project is helping builders meet a mandate for ‘net zero’ homes Orange County Register, May 8, 2016
  29. Kevin Smith, Modular housing project closer to reality for LA’s homeless
  30. Sean Weiss, Big buildings get the attention. But small ones can create community. The Houston Chronicle, January 9, 2018
  31. Elizabeth Ruiz, Aspiring to repurpose big box stores into homeless transitional housing KPAX-TV Feb 03, 2020
  32. Gose, Joe (5 October 2018). "Efforts To House Homeless In Empty Big-Box Stores Move Forward". www.forbes.com. Forbes. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  33. ‘Micro-units’ coming to SLC to help with affordable housing crisis
  34. Architects See Housing Crisis Solutions In Design Innovations
  35. Jeffrey SteeleBounty Of Benefits In Buildings Of Biophilic DesignForbes Magazine, July 13, 2020
  36. Jonathan Lansner, Diamond Jamboree’s expansion: 11 stores, 500 parking spaces coming to popular Irvine shopping center Orange County Register, October 1, 2018

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