VOA Associates Incorporated, founded in 1969, is a Chicago based organization with offices located in Orlando in Florida, Washington, D.C., New York, USA Beijing and Shanghai, China and São Paulo, Brazil. We offer comprehensive services embracing the disciplines of facility programming, master planning, architecture, landscape and interior design. Our personal approach to problem solving includes principal involvement throughout all phases of a project. VOA’s emphasis on establishing a close working relationship with each client has resulted in numerous projects that incorporate unique innovative design and planning solutions. We strive to develop humanistic working, living, learning and healing environments, which represent enduring design qualities that are not dated, but rather are enhanced and admired over time. A consistent record of repeat clients is testament to this design philosophy. The firm’s diversified practice is international in scope and includes: hotels and hospitality-related projects, mixed-use entertainment facilities, master plans, financial institutions, corporate headquarters and offices, housing, institutional and health care facilities, governmental and transportation-related structures. This broad selection of projects allows for a cross-fertilization of ideas and resources that reinforces our commitment to rendering a superior level of client service. VOA’s ranking as a leading design firm has been affirmed by over 220 local and national awards for design excellence. In 2008 VOA was honored as Crain’s Chicago Commercial Real Estate Architect of the Year.