Conifer Studio was originally founded as David Cole Architect, PLLC in 2023 as a way for David to earn some freelance income in addition to his full-time day job. The firm did little more than exist on paper as a legal entity until 2025 when it landed its first client, a small architecture firm in San Francisco that needed some Revit help on a project with a tight deadline.
At this time, the firm’s name was changed to Conifer Studio to reflect our roots in the Pacific Northwest and emphasize our collaborative work style that places the needs the common good over those of the individual. Based in Bremerton, Washington across Puget Sound from Seattle, we hope to carve out a niche on the Kitsap Peninsula by combining the rigor and expertise of a large firm with the personal attention of a small practice.
We strive to incorporate the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all that we do, creating built environments that uphold the dignity of all people and are sustainable in the broadest sense possible.
Land Acknowledgement
“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.”
Chief Seattle, 1854
The land upon which we practice is within the ancestral territory of the suq̀ʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suq̀ʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suq̀ʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855.