William Hezmalhalch Architects, Inc.

William Hezmalhalch Architects, Inc. (WHA) is a comprehensive land planning and architectural design firm that specializes in the shaping of new communities, and reshaping of urban and existing downtown neighborhoods. Established in 1981, with offices in Santa Ana, Pleasanton, and Redding, California, WHA has served numerous agencies, builders, and developers, with an intense effort to over satisfy and maintain their confidence. A team of 195 professionals, skilled in multiple design disciplines, provides an integrated land planning and design process. A leader in community and neighborhood design, the firm undertakes each project with fresh ideas, not preconceived beliefs or solutions. In addition to full-service design and architecture, WHA offers historical research, visioning, master planning, site specific planning, agency project management assistance, specific plan guidelines, planning and architectural design guidelines, prototype building design, product specific planning validations, master color and materials guidelines, project specific color and materials design, sales brochure line art graphics, and state-of-the-art presentation computer graphics. These services are offered comprehensively, or individually, to address the client’s specific needs. The Community Design and Land Planning, and Urban Planning Studios are made up of 31 land planners, landscape architects, and architects. Together, they form a team of visionaries who seamlessly meld architectural intentions with land design to address each site’s unique characteristics, market conditions, and objectives to produce value-added solutions. Four notable communities published in the Great Planned Communities by the Urban Land Institute in 2003 include Ladera Ranch in Southern California, Summerlin in Nevada, and DC Ranch and Verrado in Arizona. A superior caliber of senior design professionals possesses a unique blend of creative skills, and has generated a distinctive portfolio of project diversity. As a result of WHA’s in-depth community design history and current involvement, the firm’s mixed-use, commercial, attached and detached residential project strength is complemented by community architecture. Other community and prototype projects include clubhouses, day care centers, retail centers, churches, auto and pedestrian bridge crossings, and related buildings. Our professionals strive to maintain a well-deserved reputation for innovative designs that provide qualitative value, while addressing the combined needs of our client builders/developer, the consumers and community. And importantly, WHA’s reputation is supported by an extremely qualified architectural team of project directors, managers and technicians, who capably interpret design intentions into high-quality, user-friendly construction documents, with a level of performance that builds long-term client relationships. An award-winning design firm, WHA has carved out a reputation for delivering successful neighborhoods and communities. The firm has accomplished this through the integration of innovative land and architectural design, the ability to integrate public and private uses, responsive solutions, a team philosophy, understanding of construction costs, adherence to budgets, and outstanding performance. WHA is an active member of the American Planning Association, Urban Land Institute, US Green Building Council, and several Chapters of the Building Industry Association.