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ENRICHING LIVES AND STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES BKV Group is a holistic design firm providing a full complement of architecture, engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, and construction administration services. Our core belief is that regardless of project type, design has a profound impact on the community, and our responsibility as a multidisciplinary firm is to enhance the economic, aesthetic, social, and environmental context of the communities we shape and define. Since 1978, BKV Group has grown from a sole proprietorship into a diverse partnership with 200+ employees sharing knowledge across practice sites in Chicago, Dallas, Hanoi, Vietnam, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC, creating relevant and meaningful design solutions that allow our clients’ dreams to become a reality.
UD+LA TEAM
COLLIN KOONCE
BRADY HALVERSON
Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Leader, Associate Partner
Director of Landscape Architecture, Associate Partner
ELENA NACCARI
SPENCER BAUER
PLA, LEED AP BD+C
MLA, ASLA
Landscape Designer
ASLA, RLA
Landscape Designer II, Associate
URBAN DESIGN + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
WHAT WE DO MASTERPLANS TO MAIN STREETS For over 40 years, across the country, spanning housing, government, education, corporate, and commercial project types, our core belief has remained consistent: as a holistic, multidisciplinary design firm, our responsibility is to enhance the economic, aesthetic, social, and environmental context of the communities we shape and define.
WE MAKE PLACES PEOPLE LOVE First, let’s clarify “we.” Ours is a highly collaborative process. We immerse ourselves in your community, your objectives and your inspirations. We listen and learn, side by side. Gradually, then suddenly, “we” becomes you plus us.
REAL SOLUTIONS TO REAL ISSUES Strategy informs every plan. We research and analyze, diving deep. With insight and intuition, we bridge the emotional connection to your people. Our most important skill is to make your neighborhood’s ideas a reality.
IT’S ALL ABOUT CONNECTING We unite a myriad of stakeholders and sherpa diverse teams to the summit. The end result: we establish your true North.
THE HEART OF A PLACE MATTERS GREATLY It’s something a community feels. Our goal is to make moments matter. A project is a success if it ticks every box, delivering on every opportunity. But what matters most is that the community has their thumbprint on the built environment. That’s what drives us.
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SILVER SPRING ARTSPACE
Silver Spring, MD
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1 5 FIRM
PRACTICE SITES
168 TOTAL DESIGN AWARDS
190+ EMPLOYEES
From five practice sites, BKV Group operates as one cohesive firm to deliver projects around the world. We leverage technology and best practices across studios and geography to meet our clients’ needs and exceed their expectations. Our professionals are licensed and have designed projects nationally and internationally.
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MINNEAPOLIS
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CHICAGO
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WASHINGTON, DC
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DALLAS
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HOW WE THINK Our process is an integrated and holistic one focused on achieving our client’s defined goals, protecting your history, and enhancing your community.
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ABSORPTION
We immerse our team in your community to gain a deep understanding of your culture and values, objectives, goals, brand, and practices and procedures.
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GERMINATION
Armed with an understanding of who our clients are and what they seek to achieve, we script a specific road map that identifies your strategic goals. Your strategy becomes our strategy.
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CONCEPTUALIZATION
We translate the strategy into specific concepts and approaches. This step is the most critical in building a strong bridge between your mission and the built environment.
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FOUNDATION
We create a fully developed solution, grounded in strategic thinking and guided by budget, schedule, and quality targets.
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IMPLEMENTATION
We implement the design solution in the built environment.
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DISSECTION
Throughout the process, we track and test project progress against strategic goals, with an emphasis on post-occupancy evaluation, engagement, and reinforcement
ABSORPTION
GERMINATION
CONCEPTUALIZATION
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FOUNDATION
IMPLEMENTATION
DISSECTION
ONE SOUTHDALE PLACE
Edina, MN
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WHAT WE PROVIDE Because our process is based on a holistic
set of end-to-end planning, urban design,
approach and rooted in placemaking,
landscape and creative services available
we offer a wide array of services that
in the marketplace today. The depth of our
complement traditional design disciplines.
expertise combined with the breadth of
BKV Group draws on our global resources to
our services is what sets us apart from our
provide clients with the most comprehensive
competitors.
LODEN SV
Shoreview, MN
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Large-Scale Master Planning
Urban Design
Landscape Architecture
For more than three decades, we
Our urban design projects have
Our landscape architecture practice
have been providing large-scale
invigorated new communities and
is highly regarded for blending
master planning for private and
urban cores throughout the world.
structures with their surroundings,
public clients. Whether revitalizing
BKV Group emphasizes a team
making the site an asset to each
downtown districts or developing
approach of working with public
project’s performance and livability.
large-scale land plans, we create
and private clients, consultants,
Our team finds, and creates, the
visually exciting and economically
and community groups to produce
identity that gives a place meaning.
viable settings in which people live,
consensus plans that are a successful
work, and play.
mixture of creativity and feasibility.
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Large-Scale Planning Large-scale planning can improve site selection for proposed projects and increase the return on investment for the client, while helping to provide greater predictability for project proponents, increase the efficiencies of project review, reduce permitting times, and support better environmental results. The BKV Group large-scale planning team explores how to spatially integrate programs into environmental markets, guiding our clients in making decisions about how best to transform their parcels, factoring in new socio-spatial urban relations, changes to planning principles, and urban power dynamics. Our experience ranges from explicitly specific to more common large-scale planning efforts, including: •
MIXED USE AND INNOVATION DISTRICTS
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TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
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WATERFRONTS MASTERPLANS
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CAMPUS PLANNING
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NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
SUMMIT RADISSON
Orlando, FL
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GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
Fairfax, VA
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Urban Design At BKV Group, we believe urban design and urban planning is critical to successful sites and buildings. Our assembly of urban design expertise is complemented by a robust set of prior experience our designers have gleaned with clients from around the world, creating strong community identity and enhancing long-term value. Our Urban Design Process: Inventory/Analysis/Synthesis – Thorough review of
Creation of Goals – Urban design provides the canvas
existing contextual, sociopolitical, historical, and cultural
for revelatory experiences – experiences that can only
conditions, BKV Group assembles information into a
evolve from a graceful combination of observation
coherent picture of the initial trajectory of the urban plan
and understanding. In gathering insights on what goals,
project. This also includes elemental conditions such as sun
visions, and guiding principles should guide the plan for
and wind patterns, vegetation, topography & drainage,
the next 20-30 years, BKV Group spearheads goal-setting
pedestrian and vehicular circulation, existing policy, utility
sessions with our clients through highly interactive visioning
infrastructure, and site structures.
charrettes as a means of establishing consensus on aesthetic, branding, and programmatic goals to provide an opportunity for all project stakeholders to create and affirm goals, and explore conceptual design options.
FLOCO FUSION LANDMARK APARTMENTS Minneapolis, MN
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MILL CITY DISTRICT APARTMENTS
Minneapolis, MN
Concept of Plan – Conceptual master plans will be created in this phase of the process. The plans assimilate our conclusions from the previous activities and present them in a clear graphic format. These plans evolve through discussion, revision, and asking questions – sometimes simple, sometimes difficult – to collaboratively shape and mold an urban plan that is distinctly suited to address its contextual “DNA.” Final Urban Design Plan – The only constant in urban design is change; change in land use, in policy, in surrounding influences, and in economic focus. The success of any design is the degree to which it acknowledges and embraces this malleable notion of change - especially in the 21st Century. After any last revisions, the final master plan will be presented for approval, providing our clients with a transformational yet flexible plan – a framework that can adapt to change in a logical and beautiful way, and can guide decision-making in a reasoned and visionary manner for the coming decades.
ABIITAN Minneapolis, MN
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Landscape Architecture Our landscape architecture practice is highly regarded for blending structures with their surroundings, making the site an asset to each project’s performance and livability. We draw attention to unique site features, and evaluate sustainable planning strategies such as solar and wind orientation, local microclimate, site geology and hydrology, utilities and other existing features to determine optimal building siting, and find relationships that make each project distinctive. Our team finds, and creates, the identity that gives a place meaning. In addition to our design expertise, we understand public policy. We recognize the importance to reach beyond the boundaries of the site, to draw people together, provide essential services, and be economically viable in order to build synergy between transit and infrastructure, ecosystem and habitat, and community strength and identity.
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NEWMAN LOFTS East Lansing, MI
ELSEWAREHOUSE Minneapolis, MN
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Union Flat Apartments St. Paul, MN Union Flats Apartments in St. Paul, Minnesota is a project which seamlessly positions a 217unit affordable apartment within highly desired dining, shopping, and entertainment venues. Complemented by a bold and colorful design, the building’s emphasis on art – visible from the front door to the courtyard – creates a dynamic experience for residents and visitors alike, resulting in an elegant merging of quality and affordability.
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Loden SV Shoreview, MN Loden-SV is based on three key design elements, authenticity, nature, and youthfulness. The project is planned for two phases, North and South, with the South phase completed in December 2018. The modified “U” building focused on a courtyard positioned south to take advantage of solar orientation. The building is broken up into three building segments to minimize scale and bring natural light and transparency into the corridors.
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A-Mill Artist Lofts Minneapolis, MN An ambitious restoration and redevelopment
buildings and integrating state-of-the-art
encompassing two city blocks of historic
infrastructure for the artists. Milling equipment
industrial structures, including the Pillsbury A-Mill
was left in place and the old stone, concrete,
constructed in 1881. A 251-unit affordable/
and wood walls were highlighted with accent
subsidized live-work artist housing development,
lighting to bring attention to the beauty of the
the design concept was driven by a respect
iconic buildings.
for the historic strength and materials of the
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Piazza Terminal Philadelphia, PA Nearly 682,000-square-feet of residential space contain 951 market-rate apartments. Amenity space is located on the third floor which extends by way of a skybridge across the courtyard. There is also a rooftop amenity deck on the seventh floor above the parking garage with 3 pools and plenty of lounge area and green roof.
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Abiitan Minneapolis, MN Abiitan was inspired by the historical context
between the built project and the broader Twin
of the rail lines connecting Minneapolis’s many
Cities. The senior living development is a nexus
flour mills. Developed through a focus on
point, bridging the downtown core with the
urbanity using a shared street concept called a
Mississippi River Parkway.
“Woonerf,” Abiitan creates intimate connections
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Legends of Woodbury Woodbury, MN The architectural aesthetic is a contemporary
shake siding, and quality vinyl windows with
take on traditional housing styles featuring
low-e glass. This new housing development
defined dormer expressions that encapsulate
will provide exciting lifestyle opportunities
unit porches, strongly defined glassy corners,
with multiple building amenities. The building
and a rich palette of exterior materials and
features an entry lounge, library, clubroom,
colors. The exterior materials feature quality
social room, fitness room, theater, salon, a guest
building products of cast stone, brick,
suite and multiple outdoor gathering spaces.
composite clad board siding, composite
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BKV GROUP IS A HOLISTIC DESIGN FIRM PROVIDING ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, INTERIOR DESIGN, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION.
ENRICHING LIVES AND STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES
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1412 Main Street Adolphus Tower, Suite 700 Dallas, TX 75202
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1054 31st Street NW Canal Square, Suite 410 Washington, DC 20007
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