The Generator Studio team walked just a few blocks from the office to watch the final steel beam go up on The Refinery, a 147-unit mixed-use building taking shape at 1818 Main Street in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District. The Refinery is designed around verticality. Its 16-story steel facade along the Kansas City Streetcar line […]
Read MoreGenerator Studio cleaned up at the 2026 IIDA Mid-America Awards ceremony! Our work for MOCSA won Gold in the Corporate Medium category, and Lead Interior Designer Kaitlyn Mahnken earned the Aloft Award, which recognizes an emerging designer bringing a fresh, artistic, and thoughtful approach to interiors. If the Aloft name sounds familiar, that’s because Alison […]
Read MoreAt the 2026 KC Global Design FWD event, Live Nation was honored with a FWD Fusion Award. The award recognizes the spirit of partnership by honoring clients who bring teams together from across KC’s design and construction community. Live Nation’s Morton Amphitheater in Riverside, Missouri, opened in June 2026 as the biggest live music venue […]
Read MoreFive years ago, Seattle got its first new indoor rink with public access in more than four decades. The Kraken Community Iceplex opened at Northgate in September 2021 and has become home to thousands of ice sports athletes and one of the West Coast’s most community-facing NHL practice facilities. The 172,000-square-foot building, designed by Generator […]
Read MoreThe American Institute of Architects (AIA) published a design feature on CPKC Stadium, the first stadium built from the ground up for a women’s professional team. For the piece, Partner and Director of Interior Design Christina Franklin, walked them through how the design came together. The article covers a lot of what made the project […]
Read MoreStaff, board members, partners, and supporters filled the nonprofit’s new space on Sept. 29, opening a new chapter for the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA), which has more than 50 years of service behind it. MOCSA serves survivors of sexual assault and abuse across the Kansas City region. Its mission shaped every part […]
Read More[read time: 5 minutes] Trauma-informed design starts with one question: how does this space feel to someone who has experienced trauma? That question shaped every design decision as we transformed a former data center into the new home for the Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault (MOCSA) in Kansas City, Missouri. Trauma-informed design is a set […]
Read MoreGo behind the design of the new home for the Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault (MOCSA) and hear what this space means to the people it was built for. MOCSA President & CEO Julie Donelon, members of the Generator Studio design team, and MOCSA survivors walk through what the new building means to them and […]
Read MoreIn the shadow of the Space Needle, members of the Generator Studio team gathered with project partners to witness the placement of the final beam for the new Memorial Stadium. Since first breaking ground in June 2025, the site has seen the demolition of large concrete walls that hid the stadium from the rest of […]
Read MoreGenerator Studio Partner + Director of Interior Design Christina Franklin will be featured in the Sept. 21 issue of Sports Business Journal and at the Game Changers Evening of Celebration in New York on Sept. 30. Christina is the list’s only honoree from the architecture and interior design space, and one of the few from […]
Read MoreOn the podcast, Partner and Director of Interior Design Christina Franklin and Senior Project Manager Angie Nygren talk about the details of designing for women’s sports. The questions people really want to ask: how planning for a women’s facility actually differs from a men’s, why purpose-built stadiums matter, and what female athletes need from their […]
Read MoreIn the season 4 premiere of Ted Lasso—CPKC Stadium, the world’s first purpose-built stadium for a professional women’s sports team—is the inspiration Rebecca Welton (played by Hannah Waddingham) and Keely Jones (played by Juno Temple) need to back the newly formed AFC Richmond women’s team. The KC Current and the venue serve as major plot […]
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