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Portfolio of Select Projects

We are thrilled to share our latest flip book of selected projects in the Philadelphia Region and Florida. We have many new exciting projects under construction and design at this time and cannot wait to share these with everyone. Follow us for updates!  Click on the link below to view the book.  flip book  

M Architects Receives AIA Silver Medal Award for The Beverly

On December 2, the AIA Philadelphia awarded M Architects the 2021 Silver Medal Award for The Beverly. The Silver Medal is awarded annually to an unbuilt project exhibiting exemplary design excellence.  The Beverly is a vertical community of 50 apartments wrapped around an active core and  is located in Philadelphia's Northern Liberties neighborhood.  Thank you Stamm Development Group for selecting M Architects as the building architect and interior designer and thank you to the design team for their hard work to make this project a reality. 

Zamir Garcia AIA, Partner, Juror for Weitzman School of Design at Penn

M Architects is thrilled to be represented by Zamir Garcia AIA, Partner, as a Final Studio Juror for Weitzman School of Design University of Pennsylvania. Joe MacDonald’s third Year M Arch Studio proposes locating an Organic Waste -to- Energy Recycling Center in Queens NYC in a prominent location overlooking Manhattan. The Studio asks the question of what happens/must happen when we bring industrial buildings into the city? What is the future of infrastructure in the city? How to we plan for the environmental impacts the future holds?   The review will be live-streamed on YouTube.  

Pointy Building – Luxury Apartments in Philadelphia

We are excited to share the recent press we received for our project on Germantown Ave. The new 50 unit luxury apartment building is to be located in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia. Thank you to our Client, Stamm Development Group, and our design team Bohler Engineering, The Harman Group, and Liberty Technology Group, for helping to bring this exciting project to life. 

Unique Adaptive Reuse Project

Check out this cool project we're working on with Baker Street Partners.  Their team just started demo at this vacant church. This multi family project will soon have some of the most unique units in the city! Take a look at this section through one of the units:

New Mixed-Use Project in Mt. Airy

We're excited for construction to start on a big mixed-use project we've been working on for awhile in Mt. Airy.  It has popped up in the press a bit in the last 6 months, including a mention from none other than Inga Saffron...take a look:  Philadelphia's housing boom finally reaches Mount Airy. Can it avoid the mistakes of other neighborhoods? | Inga Saffron Will Philly's parking wars cost Mount Airy a new Aldi grocery store? Plans Revealed For S

Happy Holidays!

Morrissey Design & M Architects wishes everyone a happy and healthy 2019!  

Architectural Signage + Environmental Branding

What’s something that is often overlooked when designing interior spaces? ….architectural signage & environmental branding. Well-designed signage goes a long way to making a project look good, and just as importantly, function well. Take a look at our recent interiors project, The Preston, where we incorporated signage into every aspect of the space to help residents and guests navigate a large space.

New Fast Casual Restaurant

We design a lot of fast casual restaurants over here and this is usually how they begin… a quick plan sketch after a site visit. Take a look at our most recent, a new BBQ spot.