Ayers Saint Gross

[2] The firm employs about 200 professionals and is organized into studios specializing in planning, academic and student life facilities, landscape architecture, environmental signage and graphic design.

Buckler & Fenhagen won the national competition in the 1920s with their design for their landmark stone Collegiate Gothic "Castle on the Hill" on the highest hilltop in the northeast section of Baltimore overlooking the downtown skyline to the south.

Built at a cost of over $2.4 million, during 1924-1928, the "Castle" still serves a magnet college preparatory high school that focuses on the humanities, liberal arts, social studies and the classics and is traditionally one of the best performing student body in the state.

[2] In 1938, the original partners hired Richard “Dick” Ayers, whose employment was interrupted by World War II when he served in the U.S. Navy and toured Japan as a member of the "Strategic Bombing Survey".

They were joined later by Kelsey Saint, a Yale classmate, and the partners went on to design Shriver Hall, the Newton White Athletic Center and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library on the "Homewood" campus of The Johns Hopkins University.

Landscape Online "Ayers Saint Gross" designs to LEED Silver standards and has exceeded this rating on some projects, such as the Thomas Jefferson Visitors Center at "Monticello".

Thomas Jefferson Foundation[permanent dead link‍] At Emory University, the architects have designed several freshman residence halls to make use of rainwater harvesting and condensation reclamation.