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The United States Department of State and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel have revealed Trahan Architects’ design of the USA Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai, Japan. Serving as a cultural outpost for the United States, the USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 celebrates the best of contemporary American architecture, innovation, culture, and industry.

The USA Pavilion invites visitors to be immersed in a vibrant experience of the United States, featuring panoramic views of the country, and exhibitions that explore sustainability, space exploration, education, and entrepreneurship.

Read the official press release from the U.S. Department of State here.

Trahan Architects—in collaboration with ES Global, Alchemy International, and BRC Imagination Arts—has been selected by the U.S. Department of State to realize the USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.

Founded in New Orleans, Louisiana, Trahan Architects has designed spaces for leading cultural institutions across the United States for more than 30 years. The Pavilion in Osaka will be the firm’s first project in Japan.

“Architecture has the power to connect, heal and transform our world,” said Trey Trahan, FAIA, Founder and CEO of Trahan Architects. “Representing the United States at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka is an honor—we look forward to working with the Department of State and our collaborators to share the best of American ingenuity on the world stage.”

Trahan Architects and BRC Imagination Arts will lead the architecture and exhibition design of the pavilion. ES Global will oversee the delivery of the project, with project management by Alchemy International.

Read the official press release from the U.S. Department of State here.

Trahan Architects is proud to share its shortlisted design for the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts competition. The re-imagined STLC expresses the physical and metaphoric concept of weaving—connecting people and places in a shared meaning and vision of a world that celebrates all. Weaving has always played a significant role in cultures worldwide, including the diversity of Indigenous nations and people throughout Canada. The cultural practice of weaving is creatively expressed and represented in the physical manifestation of forms and patterns—from the facades of Haudenosaunee longhouses and Anishinaabe ash baskets. More profoundly, the process of weaving calls to the spiritual, cultural, and social practices of sharing stories—interlacing the knowledge of the skies, land, and waters from one generation to the next.

Trahan Architects is one of five teams shortlisted for the re-imagined STLC. Collaborators on the proposed design include Hood Design Studio, Brook McIlroy, ERA Architects Inc., Bruce Mau Design, Entuitive, Transsolar KlimaEngineering, Crossey Engineering Ltd., Threshold Acoustics, and Fisher Dachs Associates.

Read more about the design competition here.

Trahan Architects announced today that CEO Trahan and firm partner Brad McWhirter are to appear in the new season of the Smithsonian Channel series “How Did They Build That?” The episode features the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches, LA.

“Across the globe, radical architects, ingenious engineers and skilled builders are creating structures so outrageous, they defy logic…often even gravity,” said the Smithsonian Channel. The host, Jay Ellis, was the recipient of the NAACP Image Award.

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Trahan Architects announced that it has hired Brian Richter as the digital visualization leader and “Vincent” Yee Foo Lai as a designer in its New York City Studio.

Richter said, “Trahan Architects’ ambition, philosophy and extraordinary portfolio have always resonated with me from afar. I had the opportunity to listen to a lecture given by Trey and I immediately connected with the work. I am grateful for the opportunity to join Trahan Architects and share my research and experience in architecture, design and digital methodologies.”

Lai said, “I am attracted to the phenomenological quality and calmness in all Trahan Architects’ projects. All the spaces created by Trahan elevate our sensibilities to the place and time, encouraging contemplation in our built environment which is increasingly in the state of flux. I am excited to join this talented team to grow and continue to build the amazing Trahan brand.”

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Trahan Architects has promoted several integral staff members in both its New Orleans and its New York City studios. The internal promotions include Oana Bunea-Velea as Technical Director; Sean David as Senior Project Manager; Ciarán Conlon as Senior Design Architect; Travis Lombardi as Senior Project Designer; Andrew “Drew” Hutcheson as Senior Project Designer; Kyle Culver as Senior Project Designer; and Gabriela Calzada as Designer.

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Paúl loves discovering simple, elegant solutions to complex design challenges. A licensed architect in New York State with 19 years of professional experience, he combines wide-ranging technical expertise with a collaborative leadership approach that listens and responds to input from clients, consultants and contractors alike. He has worked with clients across cultural, academic, commercial, and government sectors domestically and abroad. Paúl contributed to the design of several award-winning projects, including the Marshall Family Performing Arts Center for the Greenhill School outside Dallas, Texas; the Brookfield Place Entry Pavilion opposite the WTC site in New York, NY; the LEED Gold Steinberg Visitor Center for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Brooklyn, NY; and a multi-building redesign of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India.

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