Marion County Public Defender Agency

“We are a public agency, nothing fancy, but we have an idea, and we want better working space.” The Chief Public Defender of Marion County challenged us to move his juvenile division from downtown Indianapolis to a previously abandoned school, which our firm had recently converted to become the 37 Place Community Center. Working with a City Council approved budget, we committed ourselves to create great architecture for a government agency, an architecture that inspires and promotes top-notch staff retention and recruitment.