Ballston Quarter

  • Customer Forest City Enterprises
  • Architect Landscape Architecture Bureau
  • Year 2018
  • Location Arlington, Northern Virginia, USA
The mall is a mixed-use project and houses a cinema as well as an ice stadium and several schools and clubs, making it an important community hub.

Ballston Quarter opened in 1951 in Arlington, Northern Virginia, just outside Washington D.C. It was the first American shopping center built around a multi-story parking garage. The aging mall was renovated once in the 80’s and at the end of the 2010’s needed serious overhauling to make sure the space remained an integral part of the Arlington area well into the future.

The mall is a mixed-use project and houses a cinema as well as an ice stadium and several schools and clubs, making it an important community hub. Significant resources were invested in the creation and improvement of the public spaces around the mall. The urban environment served as the pilot for streetscape bioretention planting by Arlington County.

The urban strategy chosen for the 320 M USD project saw turning retailers out to the street to give the quarter a downtown feel, something that was emphasised by the project’s “old meets new” aesthetics. This also included removing a large portion of the roof to convert the food court into a terraced gathering plaza that facilitates play, informal dining and events. At its pinnacle is an overlook which anchors the plaza to a boulevard. A circular Nova C Back configuration is the centrepiece the plaza and is frequently reconfigured to suit the events that take place there.

The previously claustrophobic galleria, in turn, was reconstituted into a series of open-air mews mimicking historical European alleyways. The goal was to break the wall between interior and exterior. Through garage style doors, you reach the new food court, featuring high ceilings and traditional outdoor building materials. Directly outside the dining area two curly Nova C Back configurations underscore the juxtaposition between eras that has come to characterise the Ballston Quarter.

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Nova C Double Back 100

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Nova C Double Back 150

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Nova C Double Back 30°

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Nova C Double Back 45°

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Nova C Double Back Endpiece

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Add-ons

Nova C Wireless Table

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Nova C Back Armrest

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Nova C Table

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Nova C Food & Beverage Armrest

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Nova C Food & Beverage Armrest w/Charger

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Nova C Leg Charger

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Nova C Logo on Rib

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Nova C Double Back Endpiece Cover w/Charger

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Nova C Double B2B Cover

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Nova C Rib Charger

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Nova C Accessibility Signage Pregnant

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Nova C Accessibility Signage Older

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Nova C Food & Beverage

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Configurations

Nova C Double Back Straight

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Nova C Double Back Wiggly

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Nova C Double Back Tilde

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Nova C Double Back Ondular

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Nova C Double Back Bracket

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Nova C Double Back Omega

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Nova C Crossroad 4 Small

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Nova C Crossroad 3 Small

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Nova C Crossroad 3 Large

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