August 2011 – Bass Architects of Arlington, Virginia announces expansion to better serve its Maryland clients. As of August 2011, Bass Architects will be opening a studio in the Historic town of St. Michaels Maryland in the reconstructed replica of the 1902 Trinity A.M.E. Church. Located just a short drive from the Bay Bridge this additional studio will permit Bass Architects to expand their services to the counties of Talbot, Dorchester, Caroline, Queen Anne’s as well as the remainder of the Delmarva Peninsula. Bass continues to maintain a Virginia office to enable uninterrupted service to all of its existing clients in Virginia and DC.

July 2011 – Two of the most popular and successful restaurants in the dynamic 14th Street Corridor will soon be able to improve their already impressive cuisine operating out of completely renovated kitchens. One of them will also be doubling its seating capacity due to a second floor expansion. Working with the Owners and Operators and a team of Kitchen Consultants and Engineers, Bass Architects has provided complete architectural services through permit issuance and will continue to serve in a construction administration capacity throughout the construction period.

December 2010 – The Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam broke ground in December for its new Mosque in Chantilly, VA. Bass Architects will continue its service to the Ahmadiyya community by providing construction administration services. Since 1989 Bass Architects has been working with this community through the design and construction of both phases of their U.S headquarters at the Bait-Ur-Rehman Mosque in Silver Spring, MD.

November 2010 – Roger Bass, along with two other distinguished architects of religious community facilities, was selected to present a program entitled Architecture of Three Faiths and One Foundation at the joint AIA and IFRAA (Institute for Religious Art and Architecture) conference in Richmond, VA.

February 2010 – Based upon the results of a rigorous written examination, the Green Building Certification Institute issued LEED Green Associate certification to Roger Bass. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, which is a voluntary, consensus, based program of sustainable design evaluation created and administered by the United States Green Buildings Council.

Blessing and Dedication of St. Raymond of Penafort Church in Springfield   click here for photos and newspaper clipping

Bass Architects was named as the winner of Washington Spaces Magazine 2007 Kitchen and Bath Awards in the “classic, $100,000 and up” category for their Master Bathroom addition featuring a Japanese Oforu. The magazine describes it as “the Japanese tradition of ofuro, a meditative soak in very hot water. The oforu is built from Hinoki, a Japanese variety of Port Orford cedar.” The addition was constructed in an unused space between an existing garage and the house.

September 2003 – Saint Raymond of Penafort Catholic Church has broken ground on a ten-acre site adjacent to the Fairfax County Parkway in Fairfax Station, Virginia. Bass Architects Chartered of McLean, Virginia, is the architect for this new church campus.

The new facility will include an 850-seat sanctuary with a choir loft, plus eight classrooms, library, kitchen and Parish Hall on the lower level. A separate Rectory building will house the church offices and the Priests’ residence. The site also includes parking for 285 cars, as well as stormwater management facilities and landscape screening.

“The congregation was fortunate to obtain a set of eight stained glass windows from a church in Philadelphia that closed, as well as five windows from a church in Pittsburgh,” said architect Roger W. Bass. “We used the shape and content of those windows to create the overall design of the sanctuary and nave in the traditional Romanesque style. It will remind worshippers of European churches in many ways.”

Bass Architects have been working with the congregation since September 2000 to see this vision become a reality. Construction will be completed by the spring of 2005.

March 2004 – Bass Architects Chartered of McLean, Virginia, recently launched a new Web site that includes three portfolios of the firm’s major work: Residential, Religious & Educational, and Commercial. The site was designed by Nautilus Communications, Inc. of Vienna, Virginia.

“Architecture is a visual business, and we are excited to be able to share our portfolio with our current and potential customers,” said Roger W. Bass, President and founder. “While it was hard to narrow down the projects to include, we think this online portfolio is a good sampling of the variety of projects we produce.”

Some of the residential projects in the portfolio were done in conjunction with the firm’s sister company, Abingdon Development Corp., a design-build firm headed by Chuck Cromack. Abingdon will be launching its own Web site shortly.

Holy Trinity Chapel featured in Traditional Building magazine

Read a detailed description and see many angles of this beautiful project in Traditional Building magazine. Click here to download a free copy of Adobe Reader.

December 2005 – Bass Architects Chartered has been named one of the “Bene” Award winners in the 2006 Devotional Art & Spaces Visual Arts Competition, sponsored by Ministry & Liturgy Magazine, for its work in designing the Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Church in West Harwich, Massachusetts. The Chapel will be featured along with the other award winners in the April issue of the magazine.

“It is art that provides a transcendent element to the worship experience beyond the technical aspects of rite, bricks and mortar,” said Helen St. Paul, ML editorial manager, in announcing the award winners. “Before there was language, there was art to express human emotion and tell our stories. We urge you to continue your good works and to encourage other artists, architects, designers and consultants to do the same.”

Along with architect Roger W. Bass, AIA, the Competition recognized artists Daprato Rigali Studios and Balquist Carving Studio, and photographer Ken Wyner. The Holy Trinity Chapel was also recently featured in Traditional Building magazine (see above). For other examples of Bass Architects’ religious facilities, go to the Religion and Education Portfolio.

Two Projects Profiled in Distinctive Kitchen Solutions

August 2006 – Bass Architects’ award-winning Holy Trinity Chapel is featured in the new book, Houses of God: Religious Architecture for a New Millennium, by Michael J. Crosbie, an architect and prolific author who is the former editor of Progressive Architecture (Images Publishing Group, $65.00). The Chapel is one of forty recent architectural projects chosen for the book, which includes churches, synagogues, mosques and other buildings used by faith groups across the United States. Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Click here to download a free copy of Adobe Reader.

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