T+E+A+M receives 2025 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Practice Honorable Mention

T+E+A+M, an architectural firm founded by four Taubman College faculty, has received an honorable mention from The Architect’s Newspaper (AN) for the publication’s 2025 Best of Practice Awards.

Unlike other awards, which are given for specific projects or exhibitions, AN’s Best of Practice Awards are given for excellence on the business end. Winners and honorable mentions were recognized for employee well-being and their studio’s impact on both the industry at large and local communities. Top firms leveraged scale, expertise, and influence to conduct impactful research, empower future generations, and find solutions to global challenges. 

T+E+A+M was founded by Thom Moran, associate professor of architecture; Ellie Abrons, associate professor of architecture and director of the U-M Digital Studies Institute; Adam Fure, associate professor of architecture; and Meredith Miller, associate professor of architecture and director of the master of architecture program. 

The group began collaborating in 2015 and officially formed in 2016 after presenting their “Detroit Reassembly Plant” project at that year’s Venice Biennale. Since then, they have worked on a variety of speculative and practical adaptive reuse projects, including their largest project to date, “Building in a Building,” a new commercial and community space in Detroit’s East Village neighborhood, which reuses the facade of an existing building.

T+E+A+M received its honorable mention in the Architect-Small Firm (Midwest) category. Read the full list of winners at AN’s website.

Recent T+E+A+M projects include the interior of Social Status Detroit luxury streetwear shop (photo by The Whitaker Group); The Warehouse, a fully configurable performance space at Dartmouth College (photo by Brooke Holm); and the Building in a Building community space in Detroit’s East Village (lead photo; photo by The Whitaker Group).