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What an incredible night! Our team joined community leaders, honorees, and students at the 2026 Education Through Music ...
05/29/2026

What an incredible night! Our team joined community leaders, honorees, and students at the 2026 Education Through Music Gala — an evening dedicated to supporting a cause close to our hearts.

Gabriel Hernandez, our Principal, is a proud supporter and Board Member of Education Through Music , founded in 1991. ETM has provided over 8 million hours of music instruction, positively impacting more than 18,000 underserved students each week across NYC.

The evening was emceed by Xavier "X" Jernigan, the official Voice of Spotify, and featured breathtaking performances from ETM students whose talent and passion lit up the stage — including the P.S. 206 ETM Choir, the Academy of Mount St. Ursula Bucket Drummers, and their Rock Band. The night closed with an exclusive performance by R&B trio FLO.

A huge thank you to all who contributed, as well as the incredible students we serve. We're so proud to support this worthy organization every year - to learn how you can help support ETM's mission too, visit ETMonline.org

We’ve been ranked among New York’s top architects by . Grateful for the recognition and for our clients and team who ma...
05/29/2026

We’ve been ranked among New York’s top architects by . Grateful for the recognition and for our clients and team who make the work possible.

05/28/2026

When The Late Show premiered in 2015, Stephen Colbert called out Design Republic's own Neil Tucker by name — crediting the team that pulled off what he called "a three-month miracle" transforming the Ed Sullivan Theater. Eleven years later, that stage has taken its final bow — but it will always remain an important part of DR history.

Thank you, Stephen for the recognition, and every single person who contributed to it.

05/26/2026

Last week, Stephen Colbert took his final bow at the Ed Sullivan Theater. This week, we want to share how that stage came to be.

When Design Republic was brought in to redesign the space for The Late Show, we weren't starting from scratch. We were working inside a landmark — a 1927 Broadway theater with a dome, original stained glass panels, and a Great Lantern chandelier that had been completely buried. Painted over. Hidden behind decades of acoustical panels and production lighting.

"The challenge, the design challenge, was to come in and open that all up."
That meant uncovering what was already there — and then building something worthy of it. The marquee was designed to be a preview of the experience inside. The dome was restored and fitted with digital projection capability. The seating was reduced from a thousand to 370, so every person in the room would feel connected to the stage and "Every seat in the house is a good seat."
The show's head writer said it best: everyone in the design process brought real intentionality to it — just like the writers bring to their writing every day.
For our team, this project was the opportunity of a lifetime. We're grateful we got to be part of it.

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For over a decade, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been more than television — it's been a nightly ritual for mil...
05/21/2026

For over a decade, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been more than television — it's been a nightly ritual for millions, a cultural touchstone, and a space where the country processed the news, laughed together, and found common ground.
Design Republic had the privilege of contributing to that stage — designing a space that needed to hold the weight of big ideas, bigger guests, and an audience that showed up every night expecting something worth watching.
That's what great design does. It doesn't just fill a room — it sets the conditions for what happens inside it.
Tonight is the last show. To Stephen, his team, and everyone at CBS — thank you for letting us be a small part of something that mattered.
🎬 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

This week our team had an incredible time participating in the ACE Mentor Program alongside Shawmut Design and Construct...
05/15/2026

This week our team had an incredible time participating in the ACE Mentor Program alongside Shawmut Design and Construction, who has led ACE Chapter 14 for years — coordinating everything and making the whole program possible.

This year, our designers mentored 26 students through a mock architectural project right here in NYC: designing immersive retail concepts for Carhartt, Crocs, and Beats by Dre. Students explored real NYC stores for research, sketched layouts, dove into material selection, and brought their ideas to life through CADD drawings and photorealistic renderings. They even tackled a mock subconsultant RFI and gained real-world insight into scheduling, budgeting, and construction management. To close out the program, they presented their designs to a panel of judges — including our Principal, Vincent Iacobellis, IIDA, Assoc.AIA.

We're so proud of every student who participated and deeply grateful to Shawmut for their continued leadership of the chapter. And for senior students pursuing an ACE-related college degree, the program also opens the door to ACE scholarships — something that makes participation that much more meaningful to us.

Programs like ACE are a reminder of why we love this industry — and we can't wait to see where these future designers, architects, and builders take their careers.

We designed John Hardy's first stand-alone boutique in Houston's River Oaks District around a single idea: Bali, transla...
05/13/2026

We designed John Hardy's first stand-alone boutique in Houston's River Oaks District around a single idea: Bali, translated. Every material — black walnut, hammered brass, etched glass, a hand-carved teakwood root mounted on brass sheets. Lighting that shifts throughout the day to mirror the arc of the Balinese sun — all chosen to say something true about who John Hardy is.
When a client says your work tells the story of their brand — you know you got it right.

John Hardy |

block by block. blossom by blossom.We were honored to be among 13 design firms invited to participate in the MillerKnoll...
05/01/2026

block by block. blossom by blossom.
We were honored to be among 13 design firms invited to participate in the MillerKnoll In Bloom event — creating a floral arrangement and art installation housed in a MillerKnoll vase. The night brought together some of New York's best design minds for a celebration of creativity, craft, and a little friendly competition.
Our 10-minute design challenge creation may not have taken home the first place trophy — but we had the best time doing it!

04/17/2026

This Architecture Week, our principals share the advice they wish someone had told them — for the next generation of designers ready to shape what comes next.

Drop your biggest design lesson in the comments! 👇

04/13/2026

We’re honored to announce that Design Republic has been named a 2026 Rising Giant of Design, ranking #107 nationally — up from #110 in 2025.
The Rising Giants distinction, recognized annually by Interior Design Magazine, tracks the country’s most forward-moving design firms. For us, this recognition is a reflection of our clients’ goals — and the trust they place in us to transform those goals into space.
We design environments that tell the story of a brand. That work doesn’t happen without partners who push us, teams who believe in the vision, and a commitment to never settling for the expected.

To our clients, our collaborators, and our entire DR team: thank you!

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