Meet Leigh Cunnigham: Smiles For Miles.

After almost 19 years away from the profession, registered architect Leigh Cunningham joins CMH and has not missed a step. She brings with her a contagious sunny disposition and a wealth of project experience. We sat down with this culinary kitchen expert and mother of two to ask her mostly non-embarrassing questions. Are you originally… Continued

8 Cost-Effective Exterior Improvements That Will Transform Your Retail Property

The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the shift from brick-and-mortar retail sales to online shopping, including the addition of contactless, curbside, and drive-thru options. The pandemic also brought with it an economic downturn, social isolation, and quarantine challenges. Experts predict consumer confidence will rebound as people enthusiastically return to a more social and interactive shopping experience.

Meet Ozzy De La Torre

Meet CMH’s newest Intern Architect, Osvaldo “Ozzy” De La Torre. We talked to the recent Auburn grad about family, his favorite projects, and more.

Meet Kristina Kassis, CMH Summer Intern

Kristina Kassis just finished her junior year at Auburn University where she is double-majoring in Architecture and Interior Architecture with a minor in Business. She has topped the Dean’s list multiple times, and serves in leadership roles and devotes volunteer hours to the American Institute of Architecture Students, Children of the American Revolution, Delta Gamma… Continued

Designed to Serve for Years to Come: Homewood Police Department Headquarters

Homewood , AL – The Homewood Police Department Headquarters is an incredibly sophisticated, multidimensional complex housing the police department, municipal court, and comprehensive municipal jail facilities. This accomplished the intended goal of bringing the police department’s three separate locations and myriad departments all together under one roof. The state-of-the-art facility includes an E911 center, crime… Continued

CMH Architects Celebrates 40 Years in Business

CMH Architects celebrated its 40th Anniversary on October 20, 2020. Founded in 1980, CMH has designed and completed over 1,000 projects—including churches, educational, institutional, mixed-use, office, retail, and residential developments—in 30 states across the country as well as in Puerto Rico and Japan. The firm has been at the forefront of industry trends, notably designing… Continued

Pushing the Envelope: Innovation in Food-Service Design

Throughout the process of renovating Lakeside Dining Hall at The University of Alabama campus, CMH Architects helped the university address overlapping and evolving areas of major concern with the existing building through creative design solutions, innovative design strategies and technologies, and intentional focus on design and construction efficiency to accommodate an intensely accelerated project schedule. … Continued

CMH Brings Restaurant-Quality Design to The University of Alabama

Today’s college students expect the best out of their dining halls—and that means not only chef-level cuisine, but ambience to match. In the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, aluminum steam tables of overcooked vegetables, mystery meats, iceberg-lettuce salads, and Jell-O desserts, flanked by lines of students with plastic trays was a de rigueur scene in cafeterias across… Continued