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Architecture rarely operates in isolation. Decisions about cost, schedule, landscape, interiors, and delivery shape a project from the beginning. When these inputs are fragmented across multiple teams and timelines, projects fall into cycles of revision, compromise, and unnecessary expense.

PLAID
is structured to address that condition directly.

PLAID
brings project management, landscape, architecture, interiors, and development thinking into a single framework. Not as an added layer, but as a coordinated process where each discipline informs the others from the outset. The result is clearer decisions earlier, fewer corrections later, and a project that holds together from concept through construction.

This approach grows out of our own development work, where responsibility does not end with drawings. It extends through budgeting, consultant coordination, contractor engagement, and construction. That continuity allows decisions made on paper to translate more reliably into cost, time, and built form.

PLAID
is not a package of services, but a way of working. It can be engaged as a full-scope collaboration or in more focused roles, depending on the needs of the project. In either case, the intent is the same: to maintain continuity between design and delivery, and to produce work that is consistent, considered, and complete.

PLAID Projects

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Manor Collective

Located on a corner lot in Altadena impacted by the Eaton Fire, this project reimagines a single-family parcel as a compact, community-oriented housing cluster.
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KADRE Mini Campus

After acquiring a run-down residential property in LA’s Eagle Rock neighborhood, Kadre’s team treated it as an architect’s playground, transforming the old home into a ...
Pool Deck

40-Mile-View House

Complete reimagining of an unremarkable 1950s, 2 story, tract home and landscape with 40 mile incredible views of the valley.

Betty Bazar Community Center

This Community Center & Preschool caters specifically to the children living in the adjacent Project Homekey - The Woodlands
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Rock View House

The “Rock View House”, located at the end of a cul-de-sac in the hyper-hip neighborhood of Highland Park, commands glorious views of the San Gabriel ...
Kadre Architects House of a Hill

House-of-a-Hill 

As the architect of this Net Zero-ready home, we chose to embed the structure within the hill – to be a part of it – ...
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