Category Archives: Community

The team took a field trip to the future site of Heredia-Arriaga School in Natomas last week.This Dual Immersion school site in North Natomas is named in honor of the Heredia-Arriaga family, long-time supporters of English Language Learners. The initial phase of this K-5 Dual Immersion school develops approximately 12 acres of the 20-acre site, […]

Each summer, Williams + Paddon welcomes a group of talented interns from various backgrounds to the team. Like many aspects of our 2021 workflow, this year’s internship format was a hybrid of remote and in-person collaboration. By pairing with Project Managers and their real-world clients, the interns get a sense of what it’s like to […]

Today we’re celebrating 40 years of enhancing the human experience! Founding Principal, Jim Williams, shares his memories from the early years at the firm. 1981 would not have appeared to be the most auspicious time to start a new business. Inflation was running around 10%, the prime rate reached as high as 20%, and mortgage […]

PARK(ing) Day is an annual international event in which metered parking spaces are transformed into temporary public parks, gathering places, or works of public art by citizens, activists, and industry professionals. The idea behind PARK(ing) Day is to encourage people to rethink the way streets are used. Midtown Sacramento’s creativity was on full display last […]

At Williams + Paddon, we’ve been observing how living spaces have been reconfigured during this time of shelter-in-place, but we are especially interested in what this means for the future of multi‐family housing. Urban dimensions of shelter are typically more compact than suburban and rural homes. A studio apartment needs to be a ‘transformer’ literally. […]

With back-to-school quickly approaching, we’ve been talking at Williams + Paddon about what the classroom of the future might look like. While we don’t have clear guidance in this ever-changing environment, I wanted to share a bit of our student-centered thinking and the insights our team members are envisioning.  While the COVID-19 pandemic forces educators […]

The pendulum will swing several more times before we’re done with the pandemic, but 6-months into it, can we really know what the future of the office will be?

This year’s IIDA Merge event was better than ever, with an extended creation time, an elegant runway show location at the Kimpton Sawyer Hotel, and an exciting theme, “Into the Wild”! The teams were given a month to create their runway outfit, a change from prior years, where teams were given four hours on the […]

In 2005, Jack and Scott Paddon began work on the master plan and design of a 22-acre medical campus in Karatu, Tanzania. F.A.M.E., which stands for the Foundation for African Medicine and Education, is a non-governmental, non-profit organization offering medical care and wellness education to the Karatu District in rural Tanzania. At the start of […]

With 2017 receding in the rear-view mirror and the benefit of time and post-holiday hindsight, we focus on several themes which dominated the past year’s landscape and continue to affect and direct the course of the current year as we speed toward the second quarter of 2018.   It’s safe to say 2017 was a […]