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Recent News

AIA Connecticut Award of Excellence for Historic Preservation/Adaptive Reuse

World Language Center Receives Honorable Mention at 2025 AIA Honolulu Design Awards

News Feature: "Pearl City library getting $35M makeover"

Our Featured Projects.

World Language Center

The World Language Center (WLC) is a new 21st Century School facility designed to enhance the existing campus’ functionality and set a new standard for the Hawai’i State Department of Education’s (DOE) school construction projects.

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King Liberty Center

Liberty Bank, designed by Hawaii's top architect of the 20th century Vladamir Ossipoff, is a masterful blend of modernity and tradition at the corner of North King and Maunakea. Today, 99 N. King Street is the Honolulu headquarters of King Liberty LLC and the offices of Dean Sakamoto Architects/SHADE and received the Docomomo US 2024 Modernism in America Award for Citation of Merit.

Academic Sciences Building

This project is an adaptive reuse, comprehensive renovation of the building commonly known as 1042 Fort Street, an existing three-story concrete, masonry and steel building located in Downtown Honolulu’s Financial District.

Elemental Excelerator

Our concept is based on a “triple bottom line” decision-making approach, as well as low impact design (LID) and high impact design (HID) strategies to minimize cost, maximize the sustainability and functionality of the project and reinforce our client’s mission.

Live Learn Downtown, Phase 2

Located within the Downtown Transit Oriented District and at the geographic center of Honolulu’s urban core, this project promises to regenerate both the Chinatown Historic District and the Financial Center.

Pearl City Public Library Improvement, Renovation, and Expansion

This project is a comprehensive renovation of the existing Pearl City Regional Public Library (b. 1969) and expansion of its grounds to meet the changing needs of its community and the world around it. In addition to the improvement of the library building, DSA designed a new campus around it which features an outdoor courtyard, covered walkway, two new buildings.

99 North King Street

Honolulu, HI 96817

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