work together with clients and consultants through every phase of the design process
from new construction to additions, adaptive reuse and renovations
in business for over two decades
pride ourselves on being a small responsive firm with SBE and MBE certification
licensed to practice architecture in Wisconsin, California, Arizona, Tennessee, and Rhode Island
experts in the lastest BIM software available
involved in community design events, charettes, and volunteering for MPS STEM events
recipients of many Daily Reporter Top Project Awards, Mayor's Design Awards, and WMA Excellence in Masonry Awards, amongst others
American Design Inc. is serving as the local architects for Alliiance in the international terminal addition to Milwaukee County’s General Mitchell International Airport, (MKE). This new multi gate read more >>
Convention Center renovation and addition support architects for TVS Atlanta and local firm, Eppstein Uhen Architects, Inc. ADI’s Focus: skybridge, integrated parking structure and interior renovation, DD-CD-CA. read more >>
American Design is supporting Pickard Chilton, Design Architects and Kendall Heaton Associates, Inc., Executive Architects as Architect of Record for attached parking structure façade renovation and office user read more >>
ADI is serving as local architects for CannonDesign’s new patient room tower with lower levels public and support spaces and sky bridge connection to parking structure. ADI’s Focus: read more >>
American Design, Inc., (ADI), is the Architect for this new transit system connecting Downtown Milwaukee to the County Institution Grounds. Working with a lead engineering team, ADI prepared read more >>
Donor Spotlight John T. Williams, President/Principal of Milwaukee based American Design, Inc. established a new scholarship at SARUP with the goals to promote student diversity and to increase read more >>
To create the biggest visual impact for the local public and travelers arriving by motor vehicle at GMIA within the project budget, the ADI recommended that the new read more >>
32-story corporate headquarters for Northwestern Mutual in downtown Milwaukee. 1.1 million square feet, including a commons and tower. American Design consulted to Chicago based Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, read more >>
American Design consulted to Chicago based Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, Inc. to complete design and construction documents for an employee fitness center, as part of the new corporate read more >>
American Design teamed with Graef to provide planning, schematic design, design development, construction documents, bidding and negotiation, construction administration, and project close-out and follow-up services for the Vincent read more >>
Milwaukee’s famous Daddy’s Soul Food & Grille is expanding their current location. American Design, Inc. designed a white-box build-out in the familiar SoHi Building to accommodate the popular read more >>
American Design has Moved!
American Design provided comprehensive architectural services for the Racine Street Bridge in Menasha, WI. The new bascule bridge will connect downtown Menasha with Doty Island and replace their read more >>
American Design provided space planning services for this approximately 3,400 sf office for Talgo, Inc., an international manufacturer of railway vehicles and technology. The program included a reception read more >>
As part of the Milwaukee Public Schools Neighborhood Schools Initiative, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School was created as an African-American Immersion program; focused on the history and read more >>
In late September 2017, Community Design Solutions (CDS) facilitated a process of information gathering that culminated in a visioning charette for the Five Points Exchange located in the read more >>
American Design participated in a visioning charette, hosted by CDS, for the Near West Side area in Milwaukee. Site #6 is located on 35th and Wisconsin. This is a read more >>
American Design was lead Architect for each of these state park vault toilet replacement projects; completing the program, design, construction documents and specifications, as well as providing construction read more >>
Heide Hall services both the College of Arts & Communication and the College of Letters & Sciences and had not been remodeled or improved since it opened in read more >>
Union South far surpassed its original sustainability goal and was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold status. This new campus building was designed with extensive read more >>
Project scope included full bleacher replacement, accessible seating and refinishing of the fieldhouse floor. An existing motorized, telescoping bleacher system was replaced with a new system of similar read more >>
American Design consulted on this award-winning historic renovation of a previously converted industrial property, which originally housed the Nunn Bush Shoe Factory. Through a partnership comprised of Wisconsin read more >>
American Design was retained to assist the owner in developing 28 new 3-bedroom townhouse style rental units located in the 10th, 11th, 12th and Meinecke area of Milwaukee. American read more >>
American Design was Architect of Record for this 4,000 sf addition to the southeast side of UW-Whitewater’s Young Auditorium, creating a new state-of-the-art practice facility for university dance read more >>
The KRM Commuter Rail Study was completed for the Southeast Regional Planning Commission. As a consultant, American Design, Inc. compiled a series of land use, circulation and urban read more >>
In a collaboration with City of Milwaukee planning staff, Jim Piwoni, assisted by American Design, was primary author of the Third Ward Neighborhood Comprehensive Plan. Adopted in 2005 read more >>
American Design was commissioned by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to complete a feasibility study, which included conceptual designs and cost estimates, for a new indoor tennis court facility. read more >>
American Design consulted on this 140,000 sf science research facility on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. The facility houses multidisciplinary research labs and shared core facilities, such as read more >>
Milwaukee’s newest form of public transportation is a modern fixed-transit streetcar network known as The Hop, consisting of electric-hybrid cars traveling along pre-determined rail routes. It is designed to read more >>
Riverworks is an existing industrial area, centrally located in the heart of Milwaukee and adjacent to the Village of Shorewood. Within walking and biking distance of dense residential read more >>
American Design consulted on this 107,000 sf bioenergy research center project. Sited in a dense urban section of the Madison campus, this project required demolition of an existing read more >>
This 14,000 sf aircraft hangar addition will provide consolidated multipurpose space for the maintenance, repair and storage of military aircraft for the Wisconsin Air National Guard. In addition read more >>
The Milwaukee Streetcar is a dedicated transit system designed to link together attractions, hotels, surrounding neighborhood areas, and shopping and business districts. American Design’s participation included oversight of read more >>
Multi-phase project including relocation of existing snow removal equipment facility, new 100,000 sf tractor-trailer snow removal unit storage facility, associated maintenance shop expansion, new vehicle wash bays and read more >>
American design provided architectural subconsultant services for this 38,000 sf Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) Academy, located at Fort McCoy, WI. The facility houses administrative, educational, auditorium, computer lab and read more >>
American Design lead this project to comprehensively modernize and improve elevator service, reliability, safety and environmental impacts at this skilled nursing facility located on the beautiful Chain of read more >>
76 residential apartment homes as well as mixed-use retail and office. American Design provided Production Architect services, completing DD’s through Bid Docs on the interiors.
American Design was the Production Architect on this mixed-use project. New construction on sloped site with 39 units over retail and parking, on Milwaukee’s East Side.
American Design was the Production Architect on this mixed-use project. Four story, 52 unit residential apartment addition over an existing one story retail commercial building, with parking behind read more >>
American Design was the lead consultant for this pre-design planning project. The project consisted of new construction space planning for a 200,000 sf Health & Human Performance (HHP) read more >>
American Design managed the project development process from pre-design through construction for this new 18,000 sq ft, multi-level, Student Wellness Center, as well as repurposed and renovated vacated read more >>
American Design was the Design Architect for two, 53,000 square foot flex industrial buildings constructed at Milwaukee’s Century City Business Park development. The business park is an eco-industrial read more >>
This high profile project called for the architectural design of pedestrian circulation spaces, commercial tenant spaces and 3 facades of the full block 1,200 car parking structure built read more >>
American Design’s scope included schematic design, design development and construction documentation for the main concourse and upper concourse of the new Milwaukee Bucks Arena. The scope and extents read more >>
American Design completed design development and construction documents that provide a complimentary and contemporary backdrop for new retail tenant storefronts at Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport.
Creativity and imagination are everywhere in the LEGO Activities tent! American Design enjoys volunteering at this annual event and interacting with families as they construct using LEGOs.
The Medical College of Wisconsin recently constructed their newest building, the Hub for Collaborative Medicine, within the Froedert campus in Wauwatosa. Several departments were relocated from existing MCW read more >>
9127 N 76th Street. This site fills the gap between the former Northridge Mall and N 76th Street to the northeast. The full block includes a vacant Duhnam’s read more >>
The northeast corner of the Sports & Activity Center was originally designed to house five (5) 800 ASF, two-story racquetball courts, only two (2) of which were constructed. read more >>
Milwaukee Public Schools invested in a major renovation of Custer Stadium on the north side of Milwaukee. The two structurally sound poured concrete stadium buildings constructed in 1957 read more >>
This award winning project received Wisconsin Masonry Alliance’s 2018 Excellence in Masonry Award for Best of Concrete Masonry. Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), the State of Wisconsin’s largest school district, demolished the read more >>
BEQ Building 913 Renovation Design-Build delivery model American Design: Designer of Record This project provides major repairs and renovations to BEQ Building 913. The building was constructed in read more >>
American Design Inc. (ADI) was involved in the St Paul Ave Bridge Rehab project. While the engineering team addressed the bridge, ADI attended to renovating the Bridgehouse, developing read more >>
American Design Inc. (ADI) took part in the City of Milwaukee Juneau Ave. Bridge Replacement project. ADI was responsible for all items related to the bridge house architectural read more >>
Subconsultant on a 10 year Facilities Master Plan that considered the historical background of the districts’ facilities, current conditions of notable deteriorating buildings and education trends that would read more >>
Space Planning and Asset Management Plans for 9 different administrative facilities, assessing the capacity, operation and performance of office space projected out to the year 2050.
An American Design led team was awarded this State of Wisconsin Division of Facilities Development (DFD) contract in November of 2011. This intensive 10 month assignment was to read more >>
Study of current stormwater drainage characteristics of the Lincoln Creek sub-watersheds encompassing the 30th Street Corridor in the City of Milwaukee and development of solutions that increase capacity, read more >>
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