Bettering Neighborhoods

Making Opportunities

Through design, we seek to empower communities. We work closely with our clients to create places and spaces that bring positivity, possibility, and joy.

About the Company

BNMO Design is a full-service architecture firm offering a vision for stronger and more vibrant urban communities. Whether it’s the sanctity of personal living space or the broad, positive impact of a new neighborhood resource, we partner with individuals and organizations to build dreams and maximize potential. We do this using a forward-thinking approach that seeks to minimize or negate adverse impacts to the environment. The studio works to achieve Net Zero carbon footprints whenever possible.

Founded in 2015, BNMO Design is the brainchild of Negin Moayer, an architect with a passion for urban planning projects that revitalize neighborhoods and strengthen community bonds. With her clients, she leads a discovery and design process with a partnership spirit and a desire to create space that embodies their mission and goals.

BNMO Design’s portfolio is diverse, with projects that range from a small porch renovation for a senior citizen in need who had difficulty navigating the City of Chicago permitting process, to a large community center in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the south side of Chicago to offer safe haven and guidance for purposeful lives. No matter the scope or scale, BNMO Design is focused on delivering results that support the greater good.

About the Owner

Negin Moayer, Design Director

As an immigrant and architect living and working in Chicago since 2006, Negin Moayer’s personal and career vision is to give voice and power to marginalized and underserved communities. She founded BNMO Design to focus on architectural projects and installations that help maintain the affordability and integrity of city neighborhoods.

Negin’s dual education and work experience in both the Middle East and North America has developed her expertise in designing for local cultural context. This approach is evident in her work as a designer and planner for urban planning firms in Tehran, large design firms in the United States, and now as a practice owner in Chicago.

Negin is a licensed architect and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is a board member and 2021 president of Chicago Women in Architecture, whose mission is elevating the status of women in the design and construction industry. She works with refugee settlement organizations in Chicago, offering mentorship and resettlement assistance. In her free time she enjoys family, art, reading, and writing.