CORE partnered with Street Guys Hospitality on the renovation of the client’s existing restaurant space by unifying all three floors to expand and reinvent Buena Vida. Positioning the brand to expand to new locations, the design translates the client’s vision to re-establish the prototype concept as an honest Mexican experience tied to natural ingredients. Transporting guests into a natural, jungle-like experience in Tulum, Mexico, the design delivers a warm and sandy color palette of textures that grounds it in an earthen feeling. Lush botanicals enliven the surroundings and serve as a key definer of the experience, creating the impression of dining on the edge of the jungle.
Skanska USA announces the completion of its expansion and renovation of the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center located in Charlottesville, Va. The project, which began construction in June 2015, provides much-needed additional capacity to the facility’s Emergency Department as part of the completion of a 430,000-square foot, 14-story expansion and 90,000 square feet of renovation work.
“The completion of this project provides the UVA Medical Center with additional capacity and upgraded facilities to address the surrounding community’s growing demand for healthcare,” said Greg Peele, executive vice president/general manager for Skanska USA Building in Virginia/North Carolina. “The new state-of-the-art facility with expanded care in the Emergency Department, as well as dedicated intervention areas, better meets the needs of both patients and staff.”
With a delicate balance of modern and classic details, the interior design of Grow’s office space is intended to be an extension of their brand culture and values.
Grow is a digital agency that creates experiences for some of the world’s most beloved brands, including Google, Adidas, and Spotify. Their new workspace is a tenant upfit design within the larger multi-tenant creative office building, Assembly.
Muted colors, minimal patterns, and relaxed furniture combine with functional and flexible spaces to create a casual environment for producing award-winning work.
Black Hog BBQ is launching their fast casual prototype design in Ashburn, VA. The prototype concept serves as a brand extension of the client’s established Black Hog BBQ restaurants in Frederick and Middletown, MD. The new concept is focused around the Black Hog BBQ menu, but served in a quick service or take-away format. This business model shift is in response to changing customer preferences toward limited service dining, streamlining operational costs, expanding opportunities to in-line retail spaces, and to capitalizing on the high percentage of take away meals they currently do. The design celebrates the rich history of BBQ in America, with inspiration taken from the pit-master’s pride and the ad-hoc nature of old-school BBQ halls.
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Envisioning multiuse space for entrepreneurs, designers, and developers, and additional ground floor retail, the new 215,000-square-foot Center of Developing Entrepreneurs (CODE) will act as a connective ligature between the institutional, commercial, and the historic avenues of the city. The project will feature an open-air, pedestrian gallery that will promote public circulation from the Mall to Water Street. This will be a dynamically engaging new approach to the west end of the Mall. At the center of the site, there will be an exterior courtyard with a sunken water feature and amphitheater for public and private outdoor events. As the building steps up from the Mall to Water Street, you will glimpse a series of planted rooftop terraces. Each of these outdoor terraces will serve as work and gathering spaces for tenants on each floor and provide panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The environmental qualities of the new, stateof-the-art McGlothlin Medical Education Center create the spirit of collective endeavor conducive to academic achievement in higher education institutions.
Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Executive Architect LEO A DALY, The Heights building opens as a cascade of green terraces fanning from a central axis, addressing the academic needs of Arlington’s two county-wide school programs while forming a vertical community within its dense urban context.
Located along Arlington’s Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, The Heights merges two existing secondary schools – the H-B Woodlawn Program and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Program – into a new 180,000sf building to accommodate an expected enrollment of up to 775 students. BIG and LEO A DALY were commissioned in 2015 and worked closely with Arlington Public Schools (APS), WRAP (West Rosslyn Area Plan) and the Arlington community to design state-of-the-art educational facilities that support both H-B Woodlawn’s visual and performing arts-focused curricula and Shriver’s extensive resources for students with specialized educational needs. The Heights is currently on track to achieve LEED Gold.
The main level of this three storey residence was completely remodeled in order to unify the living spaces and open the interior to views of the park with new floor to ceiling doors and windows.
The kitchen was reconfigured to take advantage of the views and is anchored to the open family room by a black cube which contains mechanical equipment, closets, liquor shelves and a powder room.
The Social, a new 16,300 SF public gathering space and food hall at Hilton’s global headquarters in McLean, VA, designed by CORE, is a vibrant and bustling gathering space with food and beverage at its heart, balancing functional work and teaming spaces with the sensibilities of a restaurant. The design is modern and warm with refined details and natural materials – a spacial interpretation of the Hilton Worldwide global brand.
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) will unveil the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), a new, non-collecting contemporary art institution designed by Steven Holl Architects. The ICA also announced today the completion of its $37-million capital campaign, several months ahead of opening, in support of the construction of the Markel Center, home of the ICA. The completion of the capital campaign was made possible through more than 1,000 gifts from individual donors, corporations, and private foundations. The ICA, which will be free to the public when it opens in April 2018, has also launched an endowment campaign to ensure the sustained growth of the new institution, with an initial $12-million goal.
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