Category Archives: Community

The W+P | 19six team definitely got their steps in for the day when we climbed to the top of the Sonrisa Studio Apartments site in Downtown Sacramento. This site visit was a short walk for half the team, just six blocks from our Midtown Sacramento office on R Street. The 0.24 acre (240 units […]

The W+P | 19six team took another field trip, this time visiting our recently completed cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction Kind in West Sacramento. Kind was developed as an answer to the housing shortage that we see across all markets in California. It was envisioned as an affordable by-design community that provides housing security to a […]

We have exciting news! The Principals of Williams + Paddon Architects + Planners are pleased to announce our merger with 19six Architects, one of the oldest architectural firms in California. 19six specializes in Education and Healthcare markets, both complementary to the markets W+P currently serves. The firm is based in San Luis Obispo, CA, and […]

Just In Time For Summer Camp 2022 Robin and I went to the open house at the new Roseville campus of the Boys & Girls Club of Placer County last week—we love seeing a project come to life! They asked if we would design the interior for this new center. The Boys & Girls Club […]

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 […]

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 […]