BLUR Workshop was created with purpose. Even the name reflects our vision. Excellent environments are a natural extension from master planning through architecture to wonderful interior design. This continuity of design, we believe, is where great hospitality environments are created. Our architectural team is focused on leading our overall project teams toward this blurring of disciplines and true integration from planning concepts to detailed design. Through this holistic attitude toward the creation of an environment, BLUR strives to achieve design that is both distinct and harmonious with its place.
OUR STORY
BLUR Workshop is a design focused firm comprised of energetic and visionary professionals with a core leadership that has worked together continuously for up to 30 years. Our organization offers full professional design services for both Interior Design and Architecture. We continuously challenge ourselves to seek out innovative and creative solutions through the exploration of multiple perspectives, challenging industry norms and cross disciplinary collaboration.
Enamored with the pursuit of excellence, BLUR Workshop is guided by the principle of designing without boundaries. No challenge is too complex and we embrace diversity of needs and celebrate these challenges as opportunity. Our collaborative partnership of experienced professionals commit themselves to craft environments both harmonious and distinct.
Our team has continuously been an industry leader in both our design process and the holistic environments that we help create. We believe great design depends on a blurring of exterior and interior, architecture and interior design. We also feel that fully evaluating the complex issue of design often requires a more hands-on design process in which models and mock-ups become integral to our detailed and thoughtful execution. These two core ideologies are at the heart of what we do and who we are.
Successfully crafting the built environment is a complicated endeavor that benefits from a cohesive project team, that includes the creative professionals, owners and operators, and those responsible for constructing. Effective collaboration requires trusting relationships and it is in the building of these relationships where we truly thrive. Much in the way that the interiors, architecture and surrounding context of a well-designed building are able to communicate with and draw inspiration from one another, so too is our approach to team building and communication within the design and project delivery process. Each project demands that we listen, learn, and lead.
Scott Sickeler, AIA, leads BLUR Workshop’s Hospitality Architecture Practice. Scott has 35 years of experience and has been the lead designer, the Principal in Charge and the Architect of Record for projects internationally and across North America. Working with Scott are his key teammates from the last 23 and 30 years respectfully, Scott Morris and Peter Green. Together the three of them have been instrumental in the design of over $3 billion and 11,500,000 square feet of constructed, award-winning work, delivered in budget and on time without a claim.
Recent completed architectural projects include the 262 key Virgin Hotel in Nashville, a 110,000 GSF indoor waterpark with adjacent outdoor water park, and a 320,000 SF expansion of guestroom and banquet facilities for a 5-star resort in Florida. Current projects include a 50 Story Mixed Use tower in downtown Miami, the United Stated Air Force Academy Hotel and Conference Center, a luxury resort on Grand Cayman, a three-tower mixed use project in the heart of Philadelphia, the first two buildings in a Pet Adoption Campus in Atlanta, a boutique hotel for Radford University, and a three story co-working building in downtown Tuscaloosa.
Liz Neiswander, AIA, leads BLUR Workshop’s Hospitality Interior Design practice. With 30 years of experience, Liz has been the design lead on millions of square feet of hospitality and convention center interior designs. Foreman Rogers is one of the key leaders working with Liz in the hospitality interiors practice. Although their focus is interior design, their architectural education gives both Liz and Foreman the background to be a strong influence on the total guest experience, from architecture, to interior design to landscape design. Together Liz and Foreman have won design awards for virtually every design they have done and been published in Hospitality Design magazine for three of their recent projects. These design accomplishments have been done with a focus on value to the client and satisfaction for the guest. As with Scott and his Architecture team, Liz and her team enjoy long term relationships with clients that are a result of both her team’s compelling design and the thoughtfulness of the solutions.
Recently completed Interior Design commissions include the premium spaces in the ground-up Columbus Crew MLS Soccer Stadium, an award-winning, technologically groundbreaking children’s play space in Atlanta, and a complete renovation of Chateau Elan in north Georgia. Current commissions include the transformative renovation of the W Hotel Austin and the adjacent Moody Theater, and hotel interior designs in Dallas; Savannah; Radford, Miami; Prince George’s County, Denver, and the above-mentioned Air Force Academy Hotel and Conference Center,
Our story and our work speak for themselves, and proudly our reputation and previous industry partners happily reiterate this truth. We look forward to helping you realize your vision and exceeding your expectations.