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About TSW
Multidisciplinary Collaboration
TSW Planners, Architects, Landscape Architects, with offices in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Lexington and Tulsa, is a full-service design firm comprised of talented professionals who work collaboratively to provide our clients with extraordinary designs for communities, buildings, and green spaces. With approximately 45 full-time employees our small size allows our principals to be hands-on in every aspect of a project and enables more multidisciplinary collaboration.
Award-winning Placemaking
TSW Planners, Architects, Landscape Architects is a leader in creating award-winning designs that embody the principles of livable communities, walkability, sense of place, compelling public spaces, human-scaled buildings, and connectivity. We are involved in all stages of placemaking, including outreach, visioning, coding, public and private planning, architecture, and streetscape design, and are gratified to see many of our projects move from concept to completion in a range of diverse locations throughout the Southeast, around the U.S. and overseas.
Holistic Approach
As a multidisciplinary firm of designers, TSW Planners, Architects, Landscape Architects offers our clients the cumulative experience of our diverse studios’ knowledge and skillsets, which results in a unique, holistic approach to design. We incorporate our real-world knowledge of environmental issues, user experience, development and retail economics, and feasibility into every project design. Because we generate ideas through a fluid, multidisciplinary and collaborative process, our team is able to provide unique design solutions that go beyond the typical approach to conventional design methodologies.
Professional Recognition
Over our 35+ year history, we have been gratified to win numerous awards for projects such as downtown master plans, comprehensive plans, corridor studies, coding and guidelines, mixed-use developments, civic and community buildings, Houses of Worship, multifamily residential, townhouses, parks and recreation facilities, and streetscapes.
From Concept to Completion
As a full-service design firm, we can take a project from master planning to construction documents and through all of the critical steps in between, including community engagement, permitting, and construction administration. We are not only committed to creative, innovative, and sustainable designs but also think in terms of implementation and the actual built product, which ensures an efficient overall process.
We respect the inherent value of community
As architects, planners, and landscape architects, we have worked towards creating and improving neighborhoods, towns, and cities so all people can live together and support each other. This statement affirms our belief that we are better together, and by sharing our strengths, differences, experiences, hopes, and dreams, we build a brighter future for everyone. Click here to read more about TSW’s view on Community.
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TSW Planning’s Featured Project
Gwinnett 2045 Unified Plan
For the past several decades, Gwinnett County’s population and economic growth has been swift and tremendous. While it is still mostly suburban in character, Gwinnett is diversifying and reckoning with the challenges of urbanization.
The Gwinnett 2045 Unified Plan eschews a one-size-fits-all approach to land use, focusing instead on the parts of Gwinnett County with the highest potential for redevelopment. Loosely adapted from the “15-Minute City” concept, the planning team developed a land use framework anchored by village centers that would allow residents to access daily goods, services, entertainment, and public space within a 15-minute trip (including walking and transit trips) of their home. These Daily Communities are focused on redeveloping existing centers into walkable neighborhoods.
TSW Architecture’s Featured Project
Douglasville Town Green & Amphitheater
The Douglasville Town Green is a transformative civic space shaped by a collaborative design process across TSW’s planning, architecture, and landscape architecture studios. Once the site of an abandoned correctional facility, it was reimagined as a vibrant architectural anchor at the edge of historic downtown Douglasville. The planning studio’s vision integrated adaptive reuse with new construction, proposing a dynamic amphitheater, a flexible lawn, and a mixed-use development that frames a 2-acre park. These elements were carefully arranged to create a cohesive architectural language that balances civic identity with community functionality.
As the project moved into implementation, TSW’s architecture studio led the design of key structures that define the site’s character. The event building exemplifies adaptive reuse, incorporating the former jail’s tower and pedestrian bridge into a contemporary event venue. The tower was extended vertically to include a rooftop deck with panoramic views, while a new curtain wall system introduced a modern aesthetic. The glazed bridge, now a symbolic gateway, connects the past with the present. Complementary additions—such as a concession and restroom facility topped with a second roof deck—reinforce the architectural narrative of transformation and community engagement.
TSW Landscape Architecture’s Featured Project
The Camp at the Works
TSW was retained by Selig Enterprises to develop a unique greenspace for The Works, a mixed-use project taking shape on Atlanta’s Upper Westside that will include restaurants, retail, office, residences, and public space in a former industrial complex. The Camp honors the spirit of the visionary behind The Works, the late Scott Selig, by creating a captivating tree-covered oasis into a whimsical park de-signed for play, relaxation, reflection, interaction, and entertainment.
To pay homage to the area’s history, TSW salvaged and repurposed industrial materials found onsite and collaborated with local artists and craftsmen. There are tables and seating crafted from felled trees and pathways lined with boulders uncovered during construction. Old pieces of machinery, railroad ties, and bricks have been fashioned into art and pathways. The park includes an entrance sculpture made from vines and branches, gathering spaces, grassy lawns, seating passive recreation areas, and a large hammock for relaxing. The Camp also features a stage that will serve as one of the central gathering spaces for events and programs planned for The Works.
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Downing Park Manor Homes: Integrating New Construction into a Historic Estate Downing Park Homes, located in Atlanta’s historic Druid Hills neighborhood and saddling the Freedom Park Trail, was developed as part of a broader effort to preserve and adaptively reuse a 100+ year old estate, these homes were designed by TSW to complement the site’s existing Tudor Revival architecture while intro [...]
