Welcome Spring 2025 Students!

Kansas City Design Center is ready to kick off the spring semester and get to work. Our studio includes sixteen students from four states and two schools across four majors. We are hoping that our diverse backgrounds and perspectives will help in ideating well rounded and beautiful projects.

Kansas City Design Center is excited to be taking on a new project. We will be working with Benesch Engineering, El Dorado Architecture and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County to design a bridge proposal for the Central Avenue Bridge. Over the past two weeks we have worked to gain an understanding of not only the condition of the bridge itself, but also an appreciation for the community the bridge serves now and who it could serve in the future. By examining the relevant planning documents for KCK we have begun to understand and dream about what this bridge could bring to the community. 

Though some of the members of our studio are from the Kansas City area very few of us were familiar with the bridge and even fewer had actually been on it. Thankfully, last Friday we were able to complete our site visit and take a physical inventory of how we can use this bridge as a beacon around which to unite the community. 

From this point we look forward to completing our inventory of the site and the surrounding community as we move toward the beginning stages of design. We have gained invaluable information so far and will continue to bolster our knowledge base as we begin model development and generate site plan drawings. 

We encourage you to follow along as we continue to explore the possibilities for the Central Avenue Bridge. Weekly updates will be posted to this blog! Our Instagram @kcdesigncenter will also be a useful tool to stay up to date on the happenings of our studio. We have already learned so much from this project and Kansas City and cannot wait to see what lies in store.