Idears and Beers

Collaboration and community building through thought leadership.

Marvel Announces Its Third Office in Richmond, Virginia and Affirms Mission of Inclusion and Good Design For All

Earth Day 2022 Feature: Naval Cemetery Landscape

Questions For A Designer: Yutong Wu

A diverse array of backgrounds, experiences, and worldviews come together to shape Marvel’s designs across public and private spaces. This series aims to offer insight on the colleagues and teammates that are essential to Marvel’s success.

What's it like to be a Marvel intern?

Angelina Li gives insight into the opportunities and experiences one can expect from an internship at Marvel.

Questions For A Designer: Emily Richards

A diverse array of backgrounds, experiences, and worldviews come together to shape Marvel’s designs across public and private spaces. This series aims to offer insight on the colleagues and teammates that are essential to Marvel’s success.

Get Past the Lobby: Theatres Rethink How We Gather [American Theater]

From Arkansas to Harlem, theatres are using lobbies, rooftops, exhibition spaces, and more to expand the ways they can gather and engage their communities.

Questions For A Designer: Ana Cubillos

A diverse array of backgrounds, experiences, and worldviews come together to shape Marvel’s designs across public and private spaces. This series aims to offer insight on the colleagues and teammates that are essential to Marvel’s success.

Marvel's Approach to An Environmentally Conscious and Resilient Practice

Ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, the team at Marvel wanted to share our support for strengthening and accelerating climate change policy to meet our environmental challenges.

Questions For A Designer: Esteban de Backer

A diverse array of backgrounds, experiences, and worldviews come together to shape Marvel’s designs across public and private spaces. This series aims to offer insight on the colleagues and teammates that are essential to Marvel’s success.

Project Highlight: ENLACE Landscape Architecture

Project Highlight: Norris Square Park

OP-ED: It's time to reclaim New York City sidewalks

Crain's New York Business, April 07, 2021

FEATURE: How We’ll Be Able to Hear Live Music This Summer.

CURBED, New York Magazine, FEB. 26, 2021.

New York Real Estate Journal Feature:

Union Square Partnership unveils new Vision Plan for Union Sq.-14th St.

WATCH: New Nexus: A Vision for Union Square

A vision for Union Square -14th Street as a pedestrian-friendly nexus of the city

Travel + Leisure Feature: New York City’s Union Square Getting $100 Million Pedestrian-friendly Makeover

The transformation will make the area feel like a "town square." BY ANDREA ROMANO

Marvel Pivots Practice, Readies for Future Challenges of Cities and Public Space

Solidifying its interdisciplinary and research-based approach, Marvel Architects is poised to solve current and unforeseen urban challenges; the firm also changes its name and elevates two landscape architects to partner

City Life After Corona: Community Engagement

Citizen / Designer: Activating the Individual in Urban Space

City Life After Corona: Mobility

Walkways: Rediscovering a Mass Mode of Transportation

City Life After Corona: Housing

Reimagining Shelter

Shelter for All: An Interview with Jonathan Marvel

Urban Design Forum's "Breaking Free" Proposal

A Street Smart Way to Open Urban Schools

Classrooms outside in the light and fresh air offer a city-friendly solution to the puzzle of restarting education

Reimagining New York, Health, and Wellness in the Built Environment

AIA New York Unified Task Force Webinar

Designing for a Resilient Future

Waterfront Alliance WEDG® Webinar

Bronx Point Awarded for Excellence in Waterfront Design

First WEDG Verified Affordable Housing Development

A look at St. Ann's Warehouse

Critic’s Review from the Desk of Fred Bernstein

Our message to the community

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update

LET'S BOWL: 2020 Bowling Season is here

Dos Fiestas: New York & San Juan