The First Thing You Notice: Art, Furniture, and the Objects That Define Optima’s Lobbies
Walk into most apartment buildings and your eyes drift toward the elevator. Walk into an Optima community and they land on something specific and stay there. Optima Signature: Kiwi In the plaza outside Optima Signature stands Kiwi: a 15-foot, bright …
The Science of the Good Night: How Your Home Affects How You Sleep
Sleep is often treated as something the body does on its own. But sleep researchers see it differently. Sleep is shap…
How to Choose Your Optima Community: A Guide to Finding the Right Fit
For more than four decades, Optima has been designing and building luxury residential communities across Arizona and …
Optima Kierland Floor Plan Spotlight: The 7190-03 Residences
One of the most desirable apartment residences at Optima Kierland Apartments is the 7190-03 floor plan, located in th…
The Art of the Celebration: How Optima Communities Come Alive Through Events
Five towers, nine and a half acres, and hundreds of residents who chose the same address in North Scottsdale: Optima …
The New Home Office: How Optima Designs for the Way We Work Now
The way people work has changed more in the last five years than in the previous fifty. Remote work, hybrid schedules…
The Pickleball Effect: What a Sport Reveals About How We Want to Live
Every sport has a moment when it stops belonging to enthusiasts and starts belonging to everyone. Pickleball had that…
Growing Up: The Vertical Landscaping System That Defines Optima Kierland
Look at Optima Kierland from the street and the first thing you notice is not the architecture. It is the green. Casc…
Designed to Sit In: The Furniture & Objects That Shape Optima’s Spaces
At Optima, design doesn’t stop at the building’s exterior. It runs all the way through, into every lobby,…
From the Rooftop: Why Optima’s Sky Decks Are Unlike Any Other in the City
There is a moment that happens to almost every new resident of an Optima community. They take the elevator to the top…
From Canvas to Courtyard: The Artists Shaping Optima Spaces
At Optima, art has never been an afterthought. From the founding conviction that architecture should engage the whole…
Living Alongside Art: How Sculpture Transforms a Community
Most people experience great art on a schedule, a museum visit, a gallery afternoon, a curated occasion. At Optima Ki…
What It Means to Live the Optima Way
At Optima Kierland, we’ve asked the same question from the very beginning: what does it mean to build a place w…
How Green Building Design Protects Your Health — Not Just the Planet
Sustainable architecture gets a lot of attention for what it does for the environment. But there’…
Why Walkability Is the New Luxury
At Optima Kierland, we believe that a great home extends far beyond its walls. Every community we build is …