Wellness That Doesn’t Require a Plan
Wellness as a Way of Living, Not a Project Wellness often gets treated like a project, something to schedule, track, and optimize. But for most residents, the sense of feeling well comes less from a structured program and more from the shape of an or…
What Living Across the Optima Portfolio Has in Common
One Design Approach, Applied to Each Community Choosing among Optima’s communities often comes down to geograph…
Evenings on the Sky Deck
Optima Kierland Apartments splits its rooftop life across three towers, 7140, 7160, and 7190, each with its own rooft…
Optima Connect, and the Perks Worth Having
A resident perks program works best when the perks are ones people actually use. That’s the idea behind Optima …
Optima Kierland Apartments: A Studio of Its Own, Yoga and Pilates
Not every workout needs music playing through a speaker system or a row of machines humming nearby. At Optima Ki…
Optimized Service, Explained
Apartment living comes with its share of small daily tasks, but at Optima we have built a program designed to take ma…
Walkable From Every Angle at Optima Kierland
A Quarter Mile at 7140 and 7190 At Optima Kierland, 7140 and 7190 each include a quarter-mile track that wraps the ro…
Designed Down to the Bathroom
A bathroom does not need extra square footage or a dramatic design story to work well. It needs materials that hold u…
The Recovery Circuit at Optima Kierland Apartments
A workout does not end when the last rep is finished, and neither does a hard day at the office. The body needs some …
Golf Without Leaving the Building
The Time Problem A full round of golf takes real time, often four hours including travel to and from a course. For re…
What Years at Optima Kierland Apartments Looks Like
The first months at Optima Kierland Apartments are about discovery, finding a favorite seat in the residents club, le…
The Balcony and the Building: Outdoor Space at Optima
At Optima, outdoor space is built into the architecture. Terraces and rooftop decks are an integral part of the desig…
Hosting at Home
Having people over is one of the quiet pleasures of a good home. A dinner with friends, an evening that extends becau…
The Value of a Short Commute
Time is one of the few things that genuinely can’t be recovered. And while it rarely appears on a floor plan or…
Summer in the City
Summer in North Scottsdale runs on the clock. The heat is the fixed point of the day, so life moves to the cooler hou…