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#23 Practice Forward Podcast (Omar Clennon) V Owen Bush introduced Omar Clennon, founder of Clennon Design Studio, highlighting the firm's expertise in residential and hospitality spaces, narrative storytelling, adaptive reuse, and sustainability. Omar Clennon detailed the studio's design process
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V Owen Bush introduced Omar Clennon, founder of Clennon Design Studio, highlighting the firm's expertise in residential and hospitality spaces, narrative storytelling, adaptive reuse, and sustainability. Omar Clennon detailed the studio's design process, emphasizing narrative storytelling, the integration of beauty, and the use of large-firm practices in a boutique setting to achieve efficiency and high-quality service. Key talking points included their project-specific sustainability strategies, the evolution into larger estate projects with a focus on landscape integration, the metaphor of music in architectural design, and the importance of long-term team collaboration in project execution.
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Today we're joined by Omar Clennon, founder and principal of Clennon Design Studio, a boutique architectural practice based in Oyster Bay, New York. Omar’s work elegantly weaves narrative storytelling, adaptive reuse, and sustainability into thoughtfully-crafted residential and hospitality spaces. His commitment to treating spatial constraints as creative opportunities and his multidisciplinary approach—including insights from music production—offer a fresh perspective on how architects can lead with intentionality and clarity amid change. We're thrilled to explore with Omar what it means to "practice forward" today, and how he's guiding his studio toward a future shaped by precision, relevance, and visionary reuse
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https://www.clennondesign.com/
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Release Date: 31/07/2025, 19:41:57
