Bowie Gridley Architects

09/30/2021

Congrats to Chesapeake Contracting Group for being awarded the Award of Excellence by ABC Baltimore for the McDonogh Greenebaum Middle School Building. It was a pleasure working with your team on this project!

09/30/2021

Congrats to the Mullan Contracting Company on receiving the Award of Merit from ABC Baltimore for the St. Paul’s Upper School Building. It was a pleasure working with your team on this project!

09/14/2021

BGA’s Elise Robinson will be presenting our recent, award-winning project, Flint Hill School—Peterson Middle School tonight, September 14th online at AIA|DC's Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) "Back to School" Fall Social. The project, which recently won an AIA Northern Virginia Juror’s Citation Award, addresses the school’s cutting-edge educational pedagogy and the need for flexibility in a post-COVID world by emphasizing flexibility, technology, and opportunity for student creativity.

Click on the link below to register and participate!

www.aiadc.com/committee/committee-architecture-education

Image About The AIADC Committee on Architecture for Education (AIA|DC CAE) is a forum to gather a broad range of stakeholders (designers, builders, learners, educators, administrators, and the public) interested in the design of great educational environments. Goals 2021 Work in partnership with nei...

09/14/2021

BGA is pleased to announce that two projects placed in the 2021 AIA NOVA Design Awards program. The Virginia Theological Seminary: Bicentennial Hall Renovation project received an Award of Merit and Flint Hill School: Peterson Middle School received a Juror’s Citation.

09/17/2020

Another award in the books! BGA’s Virginia Theological Seminary - Bicentennial Hall renovation project won a Commendable Achievement Award in the 2020 Architectural Lighting Design Awards. In collaboration with and Richard Molinari Exhibit Design, the firms created a noninvasive lighting approach that is deliberately muted and gently accents the hall’s vertical surfaces and vaulted ceiling. A historic building with a modern update, Bicentennial Hall’s beauty is truly award-winning. Congrats to Stroik Lighting, Richard Molinari, and the entire BGA team! https://www.archlighting.com/design-awards/bicentennial-hall_o

09/14/2020

BGA and Flint Hill School have worked together to reconfigure classrooms to create a safe place for students during this Pandemic. Along with creating socially-distanced furniture layouts, the team also rolled out safe distancing signage, thermo-scanners at each entry and an overall safety protocol for everyone in each building. In the new Middle School building, all plumbing fixtures are touchless, the HVAC system has a high degree of air changes per hour and Merv 13 filters have been installed to help clean the air. By delivering these elements and more, FHS is able to allow in-person learning!

09/06/2020

Happy National Read a Book Day! Here’s a throwback to the BGA-designed Dolley Madison Library in McLean, Virginia for inspiration to visit here or at your local library to checkout a book or two to celebrate! Linton Engineering Potomac Energy Group NV5.inc

09/01/2020

Our Virginia Theological Seminary project was recently featured in the Interiors Issue of Inform Magazine! Big congrats to everyone involved on this: 2RW Consultants, Inc. Linton Engineering Harry Braswell, Inc. RAM Design Studio and Stroik Lighting Design, LLC
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The adaptive reuse and renovation of Bicentennial Hall at Virginia Theological Seminary was designed by Bowie Gridley Architects.

08/26/2020

Life is less ruff with our furry friends by our side! Happy National Dog Day!

08/21/2020

Today we celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Sarah Naranch, AIA at BGA. Sarah serves as the firm’s BIM Manager as well as works as a Project Architect where she recently assisted in the design and construction of the Recital Hall & Arts Center at St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, Virginia. Sarah also provided construction administration services for the project. As a music lover and “out-of-practice musician,” this was an exciting opportunity for Sarah. A crucial member to the team, BGA appreciates all that Sarah does for us. Here’s to another ten years!

08/19/2020

While Georgetown University continues to monitor the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic, some construction projects are moving forward such as terrace modifications and interior renovations to office space in White-Gravenor Hall. Construction of two accessibility ramps to provide disability accessibility and renovation of the lobby space is on-schedule and it will be completed in the fall.

08/13/2020

Here at Bowie Gridley Architects (BGA) we pride ourselves on our amazing staff. Today we want to celebrate Sandra Watts’ one-year anniversary with us! Sandra is a registered architect in Virginia and Maryland and a LEED AP. She spent her first year at BGA working on two very important and significant projects: the renovation and expansion of Braddock Elementary School and the renovation of Hill House at Choate Rosemary Hall. “I’ve had an exciting year as a project architect and am appreciative of my current opportunity to participate in the Hill House project. I look forward to the successful completion of this project over the next year, as well as the challenges of future projects with BGA” says Sandra. Her leadership and professional skills, as well as her exceptional work ethic, have played a major role in the success of these very complex and challenging projects and we look forward to seeing her continue to thrive at BGA.