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Cuningham is an architecture, interior design, urban design, and landscape architecture firm. Its stated purpose is to create "enduring experiences for a healthy world," and it describes its approach with the tagline "Creative by nature, disciplined by design." If you are trying to determine whether Cuningham is the right fit for a project, the useful question is not just what it does but which sectors it has documented experience in and what type of work that experience covers.
Services Cuningham provides
Cuningham presents itself as a multidisciplinary design firm rather than a single-discipline architecture practice. Its own description lists four service areas:
- Architecture — building design, including new construction and expansions.
- Interior design — interior environments for the building types it serves.
- Urban design — planning at the district or site scale.
- Landscape architecture — outdoor and site design integrated with its building work.
Because these disciplines sit within one firm, projects can draw on more than one service area. The firm's project examples show this in practice: a workplace project, for instance, is described around principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in circulation, and regenerating nature — concerns that span interior design, architecture, and landscape.
Sectors where Cuningham has documented work
The firm's published project list spans several sectors. The table below maps each example to its sector and location, based only on what the firm states.
| Project | Sector | Location | What the firm says about it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Ridge High School | Education | Virginia, Minnesota | Won the 2025 James D. MacConnell Award |
| Explorative Pathways for Innovative Careers (EPIC) | Education | Littleton, Colorado | Adapted from a former car dealership site; hands-on learning campus for Littleton Public Schools |
| Banner Desert Medical Center, New Tower Expansion | Healthcare | Mesa, Arizona | Vertical expansion adding five floors, increasing bed capacity and housing relocated and expanded women's and infant services |
| Valleywise Health Medical Center, Roosevelt Acute Care Replacement Hospital | Healthcare | Phoenix, Arizona | Featured project |
| Mino-bimaadiziwin Affordable Living (LIHTC) | Multifamily housing | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Multifamily housing in the Minneapolis Native American Cultural Corridor |
| Millennium Santa Monica Apartments | Multifamily housing | Santa Monica, California | Featured project |
| The Confluence Hotel | Hospitality | Hastings, Minnesota | Featured project |
| Humphreys Building Renovation | Renovation / reuse | Warrensburg, Missouri | Featured project |
| Woodard & Curran New Office | Workplace | Waterfront location (city not specified on the page) | New office built around circular-economy and nature-regeneration principles |
Two patterns are worth noting. First, the portfolio is not limited to new construction: the Banner Desert project is a vertical expansion, Humphreys is a renovation, EPIC is an adaptive reuse of a former car dealership, and Woodard & Curran is a new office. Second, the firm publishes research and ideas alongside projects — for example, work on aligning school design with adolescent development and on "unlocking hidden value through reuse and renovation" — which indicates that renovation and reuse is a deliberate area of focus, not an isolated job.
How to judge whether Cuningham fits your project
Use the sector list above as a first filter. If your project is a school, a hospital or health facility, multifamily or affordable housing, a hotel, a workplace, or a renovation/reuse project, Cuningham has a published example close to it. If your project falls outside those categories, the site as provided does not document relevant experience, so you would need to ask the firm directly.
A second filter is project type. The examples include large institutional work (a hospital tower expansion, a high school) and smaller-scale adaptive projects (a converted car dealership, an office). That range suggests the firm works at more than one scale, but the page does not state size thresholds, fee structures, or geographic limits, so those are questions for a direct inquiry rather than assumptions.
A third consideration is process orientation. The firm frames its work around durability ("enduring experiences") and health ("a healthy world"), and its workplace example is explicitly organized around waste reduction, material circulation, and regenerating nature. If sustainability and long-term performance are priorities in your brief, those stated principles give you concrete language to test in an initial conversation — for instance, asking how they applied circular-economy thinking on the Woodard & Curran office and what that meant for material choices.
What the available information does not cover
The firm's page does not publish pricing, fee models, project minimums, or a list of service regions. It also does not detail the full scope of urban design or landscape architecture engagements beyond naming those services. For a decision on engagement, the practical next step is to contact the firm with your project type, location, scale, and timeline, and ask for comparable work in that specific sector — the project list above gives you a concrete starting point for that conversation.