What Kinds of Projects Has Cuningham Designed?

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Cuningham is an architecture, interior design, urban design, and landscape architecture firm, and its project list spans education, healthcare, multifamily housing, workplace, hospitality, and reuse/renovation work. If you are checking whether the firm's experience matches your own project type, the examples below are the clearest place to start. The firm describes its approach as "creative by nature, disciplined by design" and frames its work around creating "enduring experiences for a healthy world."

Education and hands-on learning

  • Rock Ridge High School (Virginia, Minnesota) — a K–12 project that won the 2025 James D. MacConnell Award. The firm also publishes research on aligning school design with adolescent development, which is useful if you want to see how it thinks about learning environments, not just finished buildings.
  • Explorative Pathways for Innovative Careers (EPIC) (Littleton, Colorado) — a career and technical education campus for Littleton Public Schools, adapted from the site of a former car dealership. This is a good reference if your project involves converting an existing commercial site into an educational facility.

Healthcare

  • Valleywise Health Medical Center, Roosevelt Acute Care Replacement Hospital (Phoenix, Arizona) — an acute care replacement hospital.
  • Banner Desert Medical Center, New Tower Expansion (Mesa, Arizona) — a vertical expansion adding five floors, increasing bed capacity and housing Banner Health's relocated and expanded women and infant services program.

These two examples cover different healthcare scenarios: a full replacement hospital and a vertical addition to an operating campus. The Banner project is the more relevant precedent if your constraint is building upward on a live medical campus rather than starting from a new site.

Multifamily and affordable housing

  • Mino-bimaadiziwin Affordable Living (LIHTC) — multifamily housing in the heart of the Minneapolis Native American Cultural Corridor, delivered under the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.
  • Millennium Santa Monica Apartments (Santa Monica, California) — market-rate multifamily.

Together these show experience across both affordable and market-rate housing, which matters if your funding structure resembles LIHTC.

Workplace, hospitality, and reuse

  • Woodard & Curran New Office — a waterfront workplace built around three stated principles: designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in circulation, and regenerating nature.
  • The Confluence Hotel (Hastings, Minnesota) — hospitality.
  • Humphreys Building Renovation (Warrensburg, Missouri) — adaptive reuse of an existing building. The firm also publishes on "unlocking hidden value through reuse and renovation," so this is a reasonable area to probe if you own an underused structure.

How to use this list

Your project type Closest reference What to ask about
K–12 school, new or adapted site Rock Ridge High School; EPIC Experience with CTE spaces and site conversion
Hospital replacement or expansion Valleywise; Banner Desert Phasing on active campuses, vertical expansion
Affordable or market-rate housing Mino-bimaadiziwin; Millennium Santa Monica LIHTC delivery experience
Workplace or hospitality Woodard & Curran; The Confluence Hotel Sustainability goals, waterfront or historic sites
Renovation of an existing building Humphreys Building Renovation Reuse feasibility and value analysis

The list above is drawn from projects the firm features publicly; it is a sample, not a complete portfolio. Before shortlisting, ask for comparable projects at your scale and in your region, and request references from clients whose constraints (budget, occupancy during construction, funding program) resemble yours.