Category: Community

Group of Bray employees who volunteered at habitat for humanity volunteer day in March 2024
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Volunteer Day

Here at Bray, we set out to design lasting solutions that shape lives and communities for the better. While this guides our day-to-day work with school districts and municipalities across the Midwest, our efforts extend beyond design and the markets we serve. As designers, we understand the impact safe and sustainable buildings have on communities…

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Successful Referenda for five Wisconsin school districts

We’re proud that five Bray clients had at least one referendum question pass during Wisconsin’s April election. Congratulations to Deerfield Community School District, Hudson School District, Oconomowoc Area School District, School District of La Crosse, and Valders Area School District! The funds from these referenda will give our clients a tremendous opportunity to make positive…

Illustration of gingerbread houses in a snowy landscape with text reading, "Together we make a great team - Bray Architects"
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Holiday greetings from Bray Architects

Whether we’re building a partnership or designing a building together, our work isn’t possible without you. Everything we achieve takes teamwork, both within our firm and across the organizations and people we work with. This holiday season, the visions that dance in our heads are of the inspiring, community-driven spaces we’ll create together in the…

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Survey: Let us know how we're doing

Take the survey → We’d love to hear feedback about your experience with Bray. We’re always looking for ways we can better serve our clients, their communities, our partners, and more. Please take our brief, four-minute survey and let us know how we’re doing. Our firm strives to connect with the people we work with,…

A graphic with a snowflake appearing to be on a blueprint sheet, reading: Happy Holidays - Plan joy - Design togetherness - Build peace
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Happy Holidays from Bray

We are honored and grateful to have an amazing network of team members, partners, clients, and neighbors who support our work and make every project we do meaningful. This holiday season, we hope you take a moment to feel our appreciation for the role you play with Bray.(Be sure to open the full graphic to…

Celebrating Our Creativity
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A Culture of Creativity

For architects and designers, creativity comes with the job. Each day Bray team members work together to create innovative solutions to unique design challenges, delivering fresh perspectives on traditional, uninspired spaces. In honor of National Creativity Day on May 30, we want to take a moment to celebrate the creative individuals that drive our culture…

Bray Milwaukee Office in Walker's Point Neighborhood
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Home Sweet Walker's Point!

After months of preparation, we are truly thrilled to be settled into our new office in the Walker’s Point neighborhood. The design of our space, an adaptive re-use of a manufacturing building built in 1919, combines existing historic elements with an open and highly collaborative sensibility. Its current iteration honors Milwaukee’s industrial past, complete with…

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Bray Teams with UWM SARUP on Studio Project

Several Bray architects provided support and resources to Architecture 420, an undergrad design studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP). The studio focused on the design of a fictional K-8 school at Kern Park in Riverwest. Bray Associate Mike Hacker lectured on Concepts of Educational Design and several Bray…