Posts in Architecture
Ballston Pedestrian Walkway Wins Its Second Award

The Ballston Quarter Pedestrian Bridge located in Arlington, Virginia is an enclosed walkway linking Ballston Quarter, Ballston Exchange, the metro and the surrounding city. The project was created to serve the community’s needs and goals. In order to achieve this, we brought together local residents, business owners, the developer and the county government in a series of community meetings to develop the project’s goals and provide an open forum for dialogue and consensus.

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Redesigning Classrooms to Support Student Success During the Pandemic

As students return to school, after a disruptive move to distance learning this past spring and a summer of uncertainty and isolation, how will they be welcomed back? How will the new school year bring social and emotional support to students? How will issues of access and equity be managed? How will the requirements for safety be balanced with engaged models of learning that allows students to thrive? Here is our solution to overcoming this issue.

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Hawken Brown Innovation Lab Design

Hawken Brown school approached us with the need to develop a space that cultivated learning and helped our students to create, be innovative and learn. Read more to find out how we helped them and the results of our team’s efforts.

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TECHNE: the Art of Making

It is our collective intelligence, a set of principles that shape our designs and makes them recognizable to our clients through materials, comfort, and the use of daylight to animate the places in which we dwell. We design for people and the ethos of shared values and collective cooperation; using our systemic knowledge to define trans-formative actions allowing constructive and meaningful interactions.

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