Clarke Caton Hintz

Clarke Caton Hintz is an architecture, planning, and landscape architecture firm in Trenton, NJ. The firm works with government, institutions, developers, and private clients across New Jersey, producing buildings, public spaces, and land-use strategies that range from athletic facilities and civic structures to parking garages, residential projects, and large-scale campus work for colleges and universities. Recent and ongoing projects documented by the firm include the Seton Hall University University Center renovations and addition, the Rutgers University John Cotton Dana Library addition, the Bergen County Rowing Center at Riverside County Park, the restoration of Lambert Castle and its Carriage House, Hinchliffe Stadium, William Paterson University's Skyline Hall, Glassboro Town Square, the Rutgers University Kathleen W. Ludwig Global Village Learning Center, Mercer County Community College's One Stop and Student Success Center, the New Jersey Realtors building, Ruppert Plaza Garage and McCombs Dam Park, and Montclair State University's Partridge Hall. The firm holds a rating of 5.00 based on customer reviews.

Clarke Caton Hintz operates as a planning and design collaborative, bringing together architecture, planning, and landscape architecture under one roof so that each discipline strengthens the others. The firm's practice is built around sustainability, applied to architectural design, building materials, energy systems, green infrastructure, resiliency, redevelopment, and preservation. Professional development of the team is supported through mentoring, continuing education, and involvement in professional organizations and the community. The team includes principals such as John D.S. Hatch, FAIA, LEED AP, whose 35 years with the firm include work on George A. Pruitt Hall for Thomas Edison State University, the restoration of Morven in Princeton, and the Roebling Complex redevelopment, among other projects.

The office sits on Barrack Street, within steps of the Old Barracks Museum, the Thomas Edison State University campus, and state government offices including the New Jersey Division of Taxation and the New Jersey Division of Revenue, with Patriots Theater at the War Memorial and Stacey Park also nearby.

The firm's planning work covers affordable housing, master planning, transit and mobility, redevelopment, resiliency, land preservation, and design and development regulations, and its architecture practice spans athletic, civic, cultural, commercial, corporate, educational, parking, residential, and LEED projects. With a perfect customer rating and a portfolio that includes work for major New Jersey universities, county agencies, and municipalities, Clarke Caton Hintz is a leading design firm serving institutions and communities across the state from its home in Trenton.