About NK

We build lasting relationships that create sustainable value — for our clients, for ourselves and for our communities.

At NK Architects, we partner with mission-driven organizations who are committed to serving their communities. Our purpose: empowering healthcare providers, educators and allied organizations to leverage design in pursuit of individual and collective wellbeing.

With our integrated team of architects, interior designers, planners and engineers, we advocate for the people who are served by the spaces we design. We engage with our clients on a personal level, as both institutions and people, so we can help them do better what they do best.

We know you take your work personally. We do too.

SERVICES

We have the ability to provide the following comprehensive services for your project:

• Master Planning

• Architectural Design

• Interior Design

• Structural Engineering

• Graphic Design

• Facility Audits

• Feasibility Studies

• Sustainable Design

RECOGNITION

We are proud of our sustained growth, our talented team of approximately 80, and our recognition as national market leaders in healthcare and educational design. We have been ranked as a top architecture firm in the New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia regions. Our recognition is a reflection of the outstanding clients, colleagues, and staff that we have the privilege of working with. 

SUSTAINABILITY + WELLNESS

As design professionals with a passion for sustainability and the well being of our buildings’ occupants we recognize that the overlap between the two is significant and pivotally important to our projects as a whole. Establishing connection between building occupants through visual transparencies — spaces that promote informal interactions and build community — and providing access to daylight and views to the outdoors are some of the many themes that are central to all of our work. Encouraging the use of stairs rather than elevators is a simple example of an effective strategy that promotes both wellness and sustainability. Designing spaces that offer a range of options with which to interact, collaborate, relax, work, learn, and play results in buildings in which people feel a greater connection to each other and their environment.

The value of designing with both wellness and sustainability in mind has been proven to positively impact both individuals and an organization’s financial bottom line. Environments that promote healthier, happier occupants lead to significant impacts on employee retention, engagement, and productivity. Students learn better and teachers teach more effectively in wellness and sustainably-focused environments. Patients require less pain medication and hospital stays are shorter in spaces that reduce environmental stressors and increase daylighting and views to nature.

The evidence is clear:  we, as design professionals, have an obligation to our clients, to our society, and to our environment to design with both sustainability and wellness in mind.