Kise Straw & Kolodner (KSK) has a staff of 30 architects, urban designers, planners, and historians, who use an interdisciplinary approach to help clients solve a wide range of design problems.

Our architecture practice comprises historic preservation, affordable housing, educational and cultural facilities, religious properties, and streetscape design. The firm’s planning and urban design
work encompasses neighborhood revitalization, transit-oriented downtown development, and regional growth management and transportation planning, as well as the design of new communities. Community outreach is a major component of our approach. The historical services group completes historic research, historic building restorations, and historic rehabilitation tax credit certifications.

KSK’s offices are located on Center City Philadelphia’s “Avenue
of the Arts," which the firm planned and designed. KSK’s
restoration of the fine Ridgway Library building on the Avenue,
as the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, earned several design awards, including the prestigious National Honor Award of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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