NK Architects is a client-centered design firm distinguished by its talent, market expertise, work ethic and moral integrity, which spark and enrich NK’s purpose and client goals. Our Purpose, Mission, Values and Behaviors are noted below:

Purpose: To provide the highest level of professional design services through the delivery of innovative, effective, and sustainable planning and design solutions.

Mission: To sustain professional excellence and fulfillment in everything we do; recognizing our responsibilities to the advancement of our built environment, respecting our natural environment and communities, improving places for people to live, work, play, learn, and heal.    

Values:

• Operate at the highest level of professional standards and be accountable to our clients, to our firm and to our profession
• Shepherd a design delivery process built on research, exploration and collaboration
• Enlist the collective resources and talents of all project team members
• Measure our achievements at our base, not our apex
• Embrace and communicate the ‘lessons learned’ from our project experiences
• Provide assistance to and empathize with one another, our communities and the institutions we serve
• Promote a working environment that acknowledges the important contributions of every member of the firm and encourages their professional development

Behaviors:

• Encourage and inspire creative input and strategic thinking from colleagues and project team constituents<
• Proactively manage to exceed the needs and expectations of our clients
• Provide coordinated, business-based strategic thinking toward problem solving
• Respect the capabilities, limitations and viewpoints of others
• Center our clients with the organization of our practice, providing them with market-specialized capabilities supported by the collective resources and talents of our staff
• Establish a common understanding of criteria and expectations with other clients and fellow project team members
  

Based in Morristown, NJ and New York City, NK’s service family consists of 60 client-devoted and truly expert architects, designers, planners, engineers and support specialists.  Our staff is equipped with the deep expertise, breadth of services and personal interest required to achieve substantial, complex successes, as well as small, base-loaded ventures.  Each NK design is a unique response to a client's needs—leveraged by our fluency in a wide range of styles, sizes and intricacies.  The result is one or a series of creative, customized solutions fulfilling the entire spectrum of client objectives.