"We're about finding design solutions that are as right for a particular place as they are for a particular time."
At Convergence Design, we desire to improve the quality of the built environment through excellent architecture, great design and sound planning.
Convergence Design is about bringing work, family and community together into a seamless whole. It’s about connecting people in every aspect of their lives, and bringing them together in positive spaces. Convergence Design values people more than design awards and values the communities where buildings exist as much as the buildings themselves. We’re about finding design solutions that are as right for a particular place as they are for a particular time.
Welcome to Convergence Design.
Recent Blog Posts
- Swing and a miss—04/09/2012
- What a study can't always tell you is that if the building is the wrong design (Pyramid), in the wrong place (Silverdome), or built for a non-existent tenant (Tropicana), it's going to have a rough time making a go of it. read more...
- How to build a successful downtown stadium (maybe)—04/02/2012
- The truly unfortunate part of this story is that it gives communities like Phoenix, which are not compact, a reason to give up on urban stadiums and build new arenas and NFL stadiums in the suburbs. read more...
- Was Camden Yards worth it?—04/02/2012
- What Miserendino fails to mention is the 3 to 4 million visitors to downtown these projects generate, the money they leave behind, and the potential new business for bars, restaurants hotels, and souvenier shops that results. read more...
- I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore—03/29/2012
- Buildings like this always set my mind to wondering at the dedication of the small community of Catholics who decided, in 1908, to build themselves a church worthy of a European duchy. What inspired them? read more...
- Architecture and Happiness—03/20/2012
- "The influence a space can have on our happiness explains the popularity of shelter magazines and designer porn. In the right house and in the perfect kitchen, we imagine better marriages, better behaved children, a better social life. Meghan Daum’s 2010 book, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, captured the obsession with real estate as the stage setting for ultimate fulfillment. " read more...
"Convergence Design values the communities where buildings exist as much as the buildings themselves."
-
Pirate Fort coming to Skeleton Island
May 14, 2012
Convergence Design is teaming with Henderson Engineers to create a pirate fort on the grounds of Powell Gardens, Kansas City's botanical garden. read more...
-
Commission votes to improve downtown parking
May 02, 2012
The Enid City Commission, in a 6-0 vote, approved additional funds to design new parking to support the Enid Renaissance project, which includes a new event center designed by Convergence Design. read more...
-
New GM has big plans for Event Center
March 20, 2012
Keller Taylor, the new General Manager of the Cherokee Strip Conference Center is already thinking ahead to the 2013 opening of Enid Event Center and the renovation of Convention Hall. These two buildings, which are immediately adjacent to Cherokee Strip, will give the city an entirely new convention center and event center in which to hold public events. read more...
-
Winner by a country mile
January 31, 2012
Guess we were napping on May 29, when this article appeared in the New York Times (America's Newspaper of Record):
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/ranking-baseballs-best-ballparks/
The article ranks Major League Ballparks by their Yelp ratings, which is a crowdsourced rating system that is democratic and reliable. The "winner by a country mile," as the article says, is PNC Park, designed by David Greusel (with help from many others) while he was with another firm. Now more than ten years old, PNC Park consistently ranks at or near the top of ballpark ratings in any number of media outlets, including ABC News, Forbes Magazine, and now, the New York Times. read more...