Design Makes a Difference: Artspace Silver Spring

In a series of blogs called “Third Place,” the outlet highlighted the 2023 winner of the Montgomery Design Excellence Award for Exceptional Housing – Artspace Arts Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The County’s drive for more mixed-use, transit-oriented development with integrated affordable housing is articulated in The Montgomery 2050 goals. Exemplifying these goals, as highlighted in the post, is the 2023 winner of the Montgomery Design Excellence Award for Exceptional Housing – Artspace Arts Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. For this community, BKV Group took a 2-acre, auto-centric 1962 police station and surrounding asphalt parking lots and converted them into a new arts community that frames streets and public spaces, and establishes a wonderful transition between downtown Silver Spring at Fenton Street and the smaller-scale residential neighborhood.