BKV Group Welcomes Charles Swanson and Kelsey Fissinger to Chicago Practice Site
Additions expand design firm’s capabilities in market-rate multifamily, affordable, student and senior housing in Chicago and throughout Midwest/Central U.S.








Intelligent residential design for building healthy, connected, and fulfilling lives.
Amenitized, lifestyle communities that engage the student in a social, interactive, and branded environment.
Dynamic, age-in-place environments that enhance a resident’s capabilities and support their overall wellbeing.
Design that powers urban revitalization to profoundly improve the quality of life for the individual and the neighborhood.
Socially responsible planning and design of first responder facilities, recognized for creativity, sustainability, and innovation in building technology.
Community-driven architecture with long-term impacts on city leaders, law officers, public safety staff, and the general public.
Outcome-based design solutions improving operations, optimizing staffing, enhancing the work experience, and bolstering safety and security.
Community-defining and enduring facilities that are responsive to ever-changing requirements in service of the community and meeting long-range needs.
Public design founded upon functionality and use-driven planning to extend the building’s purpose beyond walls and into the broader context of community.
Intellectual environments founded upon evidence-based design strategies that support whole-student development and engagement.
Community anchors that welcome and invite visitors across all ages and backgrounds to be a place where lifelong learning is nurtured and cultivated.
Convergent buildings and spaces that provide comfort, flexibility, and connection to a sense of place, while helping to enrich lives and enhance productivity.
Personally-designed spaces that reinforce a client’s brand, and provides long-term value by curating exceptional experiences for guests.
Transit-oriented, community-driven developments embedded within their surrounding context, merging commercial, office, and residential uses.
Environments that heal, transition, educate, shelter, support, and protect which empower us, as human beings, to make a difference.
Revitalizing prior use and historic properties into dynamic mixed-use communities buzzing with life — and stories.

BKV Group is a multidisciplinary design firm and we leverage our holistic practice to work hand-in-hand with our clients to develop innovative, one-of-a-kind solutions.
Additions expand design firm’s capabilities in market-rate multifamily, affordable, student and senior housing in Chicago and throughout Midwest/Central U.S.
Public facilities are more than buildings—they are lasting expressions of civic trust, funded by communities and held to the highest standards of accountability. At BKV Group, we partner with public leaders to turn vision into enduring city halls, libraries, public safety facilities, and community spaces that perform operationally, fiscally, and for generations to come.
Introducing the Edina Community Health & Safety Center — a next-generation civic hub that brings emergency response, public-facing health services, and community gathering space together under one roof.
We are on a never-ending quest to identify new talent to advance and diversify our culture to best serve our clients and project partners.













