We're a team of passionate thinkers and doers, dedicated to building with purpose and clarity. Collaboration and curiosity drive everything we do.

The H3 Studio team brings a distinctive, collaborative design and planning methodology that combines design excellence with research and extensive practical experience. We begin by immersing ourselves in each locale’s historic evolution, culture and current public policy agendas in order to create high quality, vibrant, walkable, and authentic places. H3 Studio is committed to sustainability through the creation of healthy, holistic, and humane communities, environments, and buildings. The working style is oriented around collaboration and interaction reflecting the importance of design and planning being a civic endeavor whether working at the scale of a master plan, building, or particular landscape.

H3 Studio, Inc. is a national award-winning, St. Louis-based interdisciplinary design and planning firm offering a highly-specialized approach to projects within the public and private sector dealing with sustainability and urban design, including but not limited to a range of sustainability, urbanism, coding, landscape, and planning professional services. John Hoal, with over twenty-five years of experience in community-based design and planning, founded the firm in 1999. The firm has a diverse practice providing services to private companies, institutions, governments, public agencies, not-for-profit organizations, corporations, and private citizens’ groups.