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OMA unveils ideas for transforming RFK stadium property into an urban playground RFK Memorial Stadium would be torn down to create an urban playground along the Anacostia Riverfront for residents of Washington, D.C. and beyond.

The 2016 MADF is underway! Check out the Team's Progress! HKS Architects

Announcing our 2016 HKS Mid-Atlantic Design Fellows! HKS Architects

Apply today for the 2016 MId-Atlantic Design Fellowship!

HOME Sponsored by HKS Architects, The HKS Design Fellowship is a yearly event when we donate our talent, skills, time and resources to help make our communities a better place.

OMA + OLIN Selected to Design D.C.'s 11th Street Bridge Park The competition jury for Washington D.C.'s 11th Street Bridge Park has unanimously selected OMA + OLIN's design to tu...

Announcing the 2016 HKS Mid-Atlantic Design Fellowship!

Elk 2.0 for Grasshopper has been released. For anyone that doesn't know, about four years ago I wrote a plugin called Elk for the Rhino/Grasshopper platform that allows you to generate topographies from USGS and mapping information from OpenStreetMap.org. It's been a long time coming, but I've finally finished updating it and released it into the wild this morning. -- Tim Logan

Elk | Grasshopper Elk is a set of tools to generate map and topographical surfaces using open source data from OpenStreetMap.

HEADS UP: We're holding another volunteer demolition event on Saturday, May 30, 10am–2pm. Details will go out in an e-mail on the morning of Tuesday, May 26.

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AIGA Washington, DC | Ben Jenkins “6 Days of Thunder” Tour 2015 What leads to a really satisfying career? Ben Jenkins has a suggestion — “Live Slow. Make Fast.” This Spring, Ben will drive up the East Coast, hitting 6 AIGA chapters in 6 da...

This year’s challenge will examine the old streetcar rail system situated directly under DuPont Circle; a prominent and thriving part of Washington D.C. Each team is asked to examine the relationship between architecture and community by delving deeply into the social fabric of D.C. at both the micro and macro levels in order to develop a design intervention that is sensitive to its immediate surroundings whilst also looking to challenge and serve as a platform for creative design solutions.

The 2015 HKS Mid-Atlantic Design Fellowship has begun with a site tour of the historic Dupont Underground!