Isaac Dickson Elementary School received PV solar panels funded by the community Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville, NC, opened its doors in 2016. Two architects, Innovative Design and Legerton Architecture, designed the school to [...]

Designing Positive Impacts for 44 Years Innovative Design has been committed to green, sustainable design since our founding in 1977. Our record shows how a small firm can create a big impact. Here are some [...]

Sun never gets old Equinox II, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a 4,017-SF, two-story with an attic, all masonry passive solar office building that has been our office since 1983. “Equinox” is named to [...]

After the recent retirement of Innovative Design’s founders, Mike Nicklas, FAIA and Gary Bailey, AIA; Brian Baewon Koh, AIA, LEED AP, WELL AP, and Louis Gerics, NCARB, AIA, took over leadership of Innovative Design. This [...]

May 7, 2021 For Immediate Release Innovative Design 2.0 Mike Nicklas, FAIA and Gary Bailey, AIA founded Innovative Design, Inc., a unique architecture firm dedicated to utilizing solar and energy efficiency technologies as integral components [...]

In 1977, Mike Nicklas, FAIA and Gary Bailey, AIA founded Innovative Design, Inc., a unique architecture firm dedicated to fighting the energy crises of the 1970s by utilizing solar energy and energy efficiency technologies [...]