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February 08, 2024
Arium AE is thrilled to announce our recent success in securing a multi-year Architect/Engineer Master Service Agreement with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. This collaboration marks a significant touchpoint in our firm’s leadership in the science and technology and secure space sectors, and we are honored to be chosen as a trusted partner for this esteemed institution. Continue Reading
February 18, 2015
Arium AE is seeking recent architecture graduates, with a professional or master’s degree. Our staff of 25 professionals is growing and seeking qualified candidates to add to our team of architects and engineers. We are a friendly well-established design practice with commercial projects throughout the Baltimore-Washington Region. Projects are mostly commercial office, retail and industrial, but with a wide variety of other projects including data centers, SCIF’s, religious and sports facilities, and laboratories in the Baltimore/Washington Area.
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January 19, 2015
Our third issue of MUSE explores the concept of true sustainability. With the influx of greenwashing, rating based systems, and industry standards impacting design; it is important to step back and question the purpose of design. This issue initiates a discussion on how designers can design more consciously.
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January 05, 2015
For 25 years, Our House has provided a home, construction trade training, education, and caring, for abandoned and abused young men. They learn through hard work, and usually on community service projects. Arium has a long-standing relationship with this non-profit, and is thrilled that their new dormitory had its groundbreaking yesterday!
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December 15, 2014
Arium AE is proud to announce the opening of one of their latest projects: Frisco Tap House, a restaurant and tap house in the Waugh Chapel shopping center.
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December 01, 2014
Our second issue of MUSE explores the broad theme of Light. In the spirit of the season, when houses and trees are blanketed in twinkling lights and the warm glow of a fire conjures familiar feelings of family and home…
November 17, 2014
Arium AE has been selected to be part of PG County’s Peer Review Program.
PG County has selected Arium to be a part of their new Peer Review Program. According to a past presentation to the Washington Building Congress by Rushern Baker, the Peer Review Program is part of a larger initiative improve the County’s past reputation of having one of the more complicated, time consuming, and costly permitting processes in the region.
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November 03, 2014
We are proud to introduce Muse, a bimonthly digital magazine providing design inspiration within Arium AE. This inaugural issue considers the theme Folly: light hearted design work occurring within the profession today. Take a look, we hope it brings out your eccentric side.
October 20, 2014
Arium designed a flexible open plan adjacent to more traditional private offices for this client. Systems furniture that provides flexibility and user control are critical in these types of arrangements.
The media has seen a recent flurry of discussion and articles focusing on the validity and broad application of open office plans. Over the past year, Forbes, Business Week, and the Huffington Post have all published criticisms, but the most damning research on open-office design is referenced in the New Yorker article “The Open-Office Trap”:
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October 06, 2014
To maximize visual impact while maintaining a reasonable budget, upgraded glass walls, glass entry doors and wood floors were concentrated in visible and public areas of the suite.
Arium AE recently collaborated with Howe, Anderson & Steyer, to design their new law firm space in Washington, DC. Arium’s team provided the Architectural, Interiors & MEP designs for this former interior shell space.
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September 23, 2014
If you’ve ever visited Jailbreak’s taproom, you’ll know the stillness in this shot is quite a rare sight. Get there early if you want a seat.Two of Arium AE’s local brewery clients, Jailbreak Brewing Company and Oliver Breweries, were featured in a recent article by Julekha Dash in The Baltimore Sun.
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