Flintlock LAB (landscape, architecture, building) is a multidisciplinary consulting firm based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Flintlock was founded by architect + landscape architect Allison Thurmond Quinlan and has grown to a mostly remote team of seven. Flintlock is a flexible and creative small business with a focus on building lovable places that are sustainable socially, environmentally, and economically. We marry creative problem solving with deep technical knowledge, constantly striving to find beautiful, functional solutions. Our design process combines expertise in history and tradition with fluency in contemporary technologies and construction techniques. We have grown our team with an intentional hiring practice of supporting work/life balance and maintaining women in the workforce through early childhood years by providing flexible working lives for our employees. We value emotional intelligence, direct communication, self-sufficiency, and a deep sense of fun in our team members.
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Diverse housing options are needed to ease the region’s housing crisis, but securing a permit for new multifamily home construction on Cape Cod can be difficult and lengthy. The Commission is working with a consulting team of Flintlock LAB, Union Studio Architecture and Design, and Kronberg Urbanists and Architects to develop plans for a variety of compact and small-scale housing types, such as detached accessory dwelling units or cottages, duplexes, townhouses, triplexes, and small multifamily buildings.
Fast-growing Northwest Arkansas must change the way it prepares for the future and be strategic in its planning to remain one of the nation’s best places to live and work.
That was among the messages shared by Allison Thurmond Quinlan, an architect and planning expert who presented to more than 180 people at the Northwest Arkansas Council’s spring meeting in Bentonville.
The Audrey stock plan won an Urban Guild award in the category of Missing Middle Housing. Designed by Flintlock LAB, this plan has been built with various elevations as a townhouse, duplex, accessory dwelling unit, and a freestanding cottage.
Developers held a groundbreaking ceremony to introduce a new community in southwest Bentonville. Flintlock provided the master plan for the neighborhood, which will provide 400 homes on 95 acres.
There are many culprits for the mismatch between household sizes and housing stock - zoning, financial structures, an unimaginative industry - but the result is that the entry level for buyers and renters is increasingly unattainable. Alli Quinlan writes about the neglected market for small housing.
Alli Quinlan speaks in a webinar panel on Challenges in Pre-Approved Building Plans, hosted by CNU’s On the Park Bench. Read how these plans can address the housing crisis by reducing regulatory friction around high-quality residential designs that fit a community’s vernacular.
Building very cute housing in walkable locations that are kind to people is excellent business sense. It’s also functionally illegal in most places. Check out this Block, Street & Building article by Alli Quinlan.
Strong Towns housing expert, Daniel Herriges, and principal architect and landscape architect at Flintlock Lab, Alli Quinlan, talk about the sorts of housing that can meet different needs for your neighbors, and creative ways to get your city on board with promoting and allowing diverse housing types.
The course is worth 1 continuing education credit through the AICP.
Have your city’s plans been fully coordinated? Our team analyzes your policies and infrastructure costs to determine if they are in alignment with your city’s monetization structure and actual revenue sources. We help ensure a clear accounting by cities and enable you to be confident that the public investment in infrastructure will best meet your city’s needs and have a good return. Let’s make certain your new streets and utility systems won’t lose your city money by getting your new development in the right places and in the right formats.
Alli Quinlan was named to the Class of 2024 Forty Under 40. Dedicated to sustainable growth, urbanism and historic preservation, Alli Thurmond Quinlan started her multidisciplinary design consulting firm to focus on architecture, master planning, landscape and infrastructure investment analysis.