Benton & Benton Architects

03/17/2025

The lucky clovers look a little different here on the coast... Happy St. Patrick's Day!

03/14/2025

Happy Pi Day!

In our office we sure do love pi (and pie). Here are a few architectural uses of Andy's favorite ratio, to inspire your next great space – or your next vacation.

On March 14th, we celebrate the centuries-old circumference-calculating tool that has helped us conceptualize incredible circular architecture. Happy Pi day, architects!

02/28/2025

PROJECT FRIDAY :: The riverfront of Louisville, Kentucky is home of several local gems, and offers easy access to the Louisville Slugger Museum. Heatherwick Studio has unveiled their plan to revitalize the central belvedere of this historic area, transforming it into a welcoming retreat for visitors and residents alike.

Discover Heatherwick Studio's vision for a revitalized Belvedere park in downtown Louisville, enhancing its riverfront connection and community space.

10/18/2024

PROJECT FRIDAY :: Rethinking shared urban spaces is something of a daydream for architects and urban planners, alike. has compiled a handful of unique examples that combine land, sea and urban access, with unique and beautiful results.

Embracing living with water, OKRA approaches cities as natural habitats where urban and natural ecosystems coexist harmoniously.

08/02/2024

PROJECT FRIDAY :: Two designers moved from the Gowanus neighborhood in Brooklyn to Rhinebeck, where they built an elegant country home with key hallmarks of farmhouses found in the Hudson Valley. Built to feel as though it was put together over time, the home boasts airy living and bedroom spaces, linked by a breezeway.

The two designers never planned to leave Brooklyn. But upstate New York beckoned.

07/26/2024

PROJECT FRIDAY :: The 2024 Summer Olympics start today in Paris, and the city has vowed to build as little as possible as part of their effort to make these Olympic Games the greenest ever. Have they accomplished that goal? The Guardian takes a look at several of the venues that will house competition over the next few weeks.

07/04/2024

Have a fun, relaxing and safe Fourth of July!

06/28/2024

PROJECT FRIDAY :: Our partners at Incept3D are working with us on one of our largest and most ambitious projects to date. Using a Revit file, they developed a detailed full-color model of the Muslim Community Center of Greater San Diego we are currently developing with their leadership team. The model brings our drawings to life, including intricate details present in the building design – and complete with a removable roof to help better understand orientation of the space.

We transformed a completely unprintable Revit file into a full-color, highly detailed, show-quality model.

01/26/2024

PROJECT FRIDAY :: A landmark exhibition has opened at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., which brings children’s books to life through a series of immersive landscapes. Curated by Leonard Marcus, Building Stories occupies 4,000 square feet on the ground floor of the museum, in which mural-sized illustrations and multimedia components compose the exhibition, with related programming running adjacent to the space.

Building Stories at the National Building Museum shows the relationship between book and building design through immersive exhibition design.