AN INNOVATION-DRIVEN CONSULTANCY AT THE INTERSECTION OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING, & REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT.

WE CREATE HOLISTIC, FUTURE-FOCUSED SOLUTIONS THAT GO BEYOND TRADITIONAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES.

OUR WORK INTEGRATES DESIGN WITH REAL ESTATE STRATEGY, URBAN PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY IN NEW WAYS TO UNLOCK VALUE AND CREATE THRIVING URBAN ENVIRONMENTS.

IMPACTFUL VALUE CREATION

We help clients navigate ambiguity, surface unseen opportunities, and move from idea to execution faster and with deeper clarity.

We’re not your normal design firm— We’re a strategic accelerator. A co-thinker. A partner who draws a sharp line between vision and viability. We don’t make you choose between creativity and technical follow through. We do both.

We combine our interdisciplinary expertise with today’s most powerful tools—generative design platforms and AI-assisted workflows—to align concept, cost, and execution from day one and then create the tools necessary to monitor and manage it to fruition.

This empowers your team do what others can’t: start with iconic intent but execute with surgical precision—delivering projects that are not just admired, but deeply successful.

SERVICES

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STRATEGY

Opportunity Discovery - Identify opportunities created by changing market dynamics, including impacts of new regulations, government funding programs, and how best to leverage land use loopholes.
Data-Driven Acquisition - Identify potential development sites in a systematic and thematic way using digital tools and data processing.
Product-Market Fit Analysis – Competitive set analysis, market insight and differentiation approaches.
Development Feasibility – Determination of highest and best uses through financial analysis. Yield studies including test-fits, 3D massing visualizations, and detailed metrics.

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DESIGN

Vision & Narrative – Visual communication of an opportunity that is tailored to stakeholders, from government officials to internal investment committees or third-party capital.

Site Planning & Design - Site analysis, land use analysis and determination of viable entitlement pathways. Public realm design & activation.

Master Planning - Comprehensive planning and design solutions for large scale sites.

Architectural Design – Full design services for buildings of all scales

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MANAGEMENT

Project Mobilization– Run a process, from RFPs to Design Competitions, to select consultants and onboard a full consultant team.

Development & Design Project Management - Manage & coordinate internal and external project stakeholders.

Design Advisory - Expert analysis of design to ensure adherence to the project’s vision, market positioning and budget.

Project Frameworks + Best Practice – Creation of tools and templates. Implementation of management processes.

CLIENTS

WE’VE PARTNERED WITH LEADING UNIVERSITIES, MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS, DEVELOPERS & EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.

EXPERTISE

WITH 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE CREATING INNOVATIVE AND ICONIC PLACES ACROSS THE US, WE’VE PERFECTED THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CREATING VISIONARY CONCEPTS THAT ARE GROUNDED IN THE HARD-NOSED REALITIES OF GETTING THINGS BUILT.

SEE OUR WORK

ABOUT RYAN, THE FOUNDER

Ryan Lovett is an interdisciplinary real estate developer, architect, urban planner, and urbanist committed to improving the built and natural environments. With 20 years of experience creating innovative and iconic places across the world, Ryan has perfected both the art and science of building visionary concepts that are grounded in hard-nosed realities of what it takes to realize ambitious projects. He has spent his career sitting on almost every side of the table. He has worn the hat of an owner, developer, contractor, and urban planning and architectural design leader. Ryan brings a holistic approach to his work, combining vision and strategic design thinking with practical development and construction knowledge to deliver innovative and actionable solutions.

Ryan is a recognized thought leader on innovation in the built environment. His work is cited in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Architect’s Newspaper, and Architecture Magazine, among other publications. A respected technologist, he currently advises a number of proptech companies and AEC technology start-ups. He is also an active member of the Urban Land Institute, serving on the Innovation Council and NEXT in Los Angeles, a registered architect in the State of New York and a Certified Urban Planner (AICP) by the American Planning Association.

Ryan previously served as Head of Design at Lendlease (ASX: LLC), a global development, construction, and investment management company, where he worked across regions, providing strategy and design leadership throughout its development portfolio. He formulated the vision and led direction from origination through construction on a number of prominent mixed- use projects across the US, including Habitat, a mixed-use 260 unit multi-family and creative office complex in Los Angeles, Hayes Point, a 300 unit condo and office tower in San Francisco, Southbank, a 7-acre Master Plan in Chicago, One Java, an 830-unit multifamily building in New York City, and Forum, a 350k sf life science building in Boston. Ryan also served as Regional Head of Practices, Lendlease’s internal innovation group, where he led a number of cross-functional initiatives and special projects focusing on next generation sustainability strategies, office-to-residential conversions, new asset classes and building materials including cross laminated timber.

Prior to Lendlease, Ryan was the Director of Urban Design and Development at SHoP Architects, the globally renowned architecture firm based in New York City, where he led the firm’s large-scale projects. Through his experience at SHoP, Ryan combined his backgrounds in real estate, design and urban planning to become an industry leader in the creation of innovative mixed-use development, including the Ion District for Rice University in Houston, the Berkeley Global Campus in Richmond, CA for UC Berkeley, Essex Crossing master plan in New York City’s lower east side, and the Schuylkill Yards master plan in Philadelphia for Drexel University and Brandywine Realty Trust. He also contributed to the design of some of the most iconic architecture projects in the world, including the Collins Arch in Melbourne, Australia and 111 W 57th St in New York City.

Ryan holds a dual Master of Architecture and Master of Science in Real Estate Development from the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation where he received an Honor Award for Excellence in Design and the 2012 AIA Heritage Ball Scholarship. He also holds a B.A. in Architecture and Ecological Design with High Honors from the University of California Berkeley where he was awarded the Raymond L. Watson Prize and the Alpha Rho Chi award.

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