Leading interior architecture and design firm OTJ Architects is expanding with the creation of a new studio, headed by Director Amy Carter, IIDA, LEED AP. The new studio’s practice will be focused primarily on the delivery of landlord projects, including commercial building repositioning and tenant build-outs. A former founding partner of Esoarc Studio, Ms. Carter brings nearly 25 years of commercial interior design experience on projects spanning private, nonprofit, and government sectors. Her clients include Cushman & Wakefield, Stout & Teague, Blake Real Estate,Monday Properties, Duke Realty, and HHS/OIG among others. She will bring a dedicated staff to her new studio. Among her most recently completed projects are headquarters for CTIA and American Diabetes Association.

Lance Jaccard, OTJ Managing Partner, notes, “The addition of Amy and her team both complements and broadens the services we can offer clients in Washington, New York, and nationwide while maintaining the studio structure and hands-on partner leadership, which have long been the hallmarks of our success.”

Adds Ms. Carter, “OTJ’s architects and designers share our passion for high-efficiency commercial environments. Bringing our groups together creates an unparalleled opportunity to build upon an existing synergy and enhance our practices.”

Within the past year, OTJ Architects has completed Washington Metropolitan area projects for such clients as Yelp, Adobe, Sands Capital Management, Darden School of Business, The Aspen Institute, The Foundry, Anheuser Busch, and Alarm.com. In New York, it is designing projects for Cultural Vistas, FHI 360, and Brookfield Partners.

About OTJ Architects

OTJ Architects is a premier interior architecture and design firm that creates award-winning projects nationwide from its offices in Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y. For nearly 30 years, OTJ has partnered with leaders in the commercial real estate, corporate, government, and non-profit sectors to help organizations meet their human, operational, and business objectives through the power of the built environment. Signature recent projects include workplaces for Adobe, BMW, Yelp, and United Way, as well as Innovation Centers for Booz Allen and Capital One. More information is available at http://www.otj.com