News
06/10
RWD to Create New Visitor Experience for The Atlanta History Center
The Atlanta History Center (AHC) has retained Riggs Ward Design, a Richmond, Virginia-based exhibit design firm, for master planning and exhibit design services. The primary goal for this collaboration is to create a more accessible, serviceable environment that will provide visitors compelling and memorable experiences. Long-term goals for the center include a café and classrooms. This project is part of an already successful relationship between RWD and AHC. They are currently working together on the master planning and exhibit design of the Center's Barbecue Nation exhibition. RWD also is coordinating the AHC's installation of With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition, an exhibit that RWD originally designed for the Library of Congress. "Working with the Atlanta History Center is always a collaborative and creative experience," said Brent Ward, Managing Principal of Riggs Ward Design. "Our team effort will create an enhanced visitor experience deserving of this diverse and historic facility." Since its formation over 13 years ago, Riggs Ward Design has offered multidisciplinary services to a wide variety of clients. From its work with small, local museums, and corporations to large government agencies, RWD is quickly establishing a national reputation for excellence in design and customer service. Riggs Ward's unique range of services, combined with its staff of established and well-respected professionals, offers businesses, educational associations and cultural institutions a single source for all their creative and content needs
05/10
RWD to Design Lincoln Exhibit for the Atlantic History Center
The Atlanta History Center (AHC) has retained Riggs Ward Design (RWD), a Richmond, Virginia based firm, to provide coordination and installation services, as well as an innovative and fresh re-design for the much-anticipated With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition, an exhibit that RWD originally designed for the Library of Congress. Scheduled to be on display at the AHC from September 4 through November 76, 2010, this exhibit will reveal the more personal side of Lincoln. While With Malice Toward None will be revamped to make it the AHC's own, RWD will employ many of the same compelling elements used in the original Library of Congress show: interactive computer stations, multimedia presentations, documents, books, broadsides and newspapers, prints and photographs, artifacts, and maps that provide a unique glimpse into Lincoln's life and presidency.
04/10
Riggs Ward's Latest Project Opens in North Carolina
Raven Rock State Park in Lillington, North Carolina (just south of Raleigh) recently opened its new Visitors Center, a LEED-certified building featuring exhibits designed by Riggs Ward Design (RWD). The exhibition focus on the natural plant and animal communities found in the Park, while telling the story of the fall zone and the heritage of the residents who lived and worked in the area. RWD's design elements include a huge replica of the Raven Rock, a massive geological formation located along the Cape Fear River. This model is a major highlight of the space and is particularly beneficial to those visitors who are unable to make the trek through the Park to see the original. RWD also included computer and hands-on interactives that serve to teach both children and adults valuable lessons about the region's flora, fauna, and history. Raven Rock State Park is the second visitor's center completed by Riggs Ward for the State of North Carolina in the past two years. Riggs Ward Principal Brent Ward announced, "Everyone at RWD is so excited about designing green exhibits for a LEED-certified building. We appreciate the Raven Rock team's hard work and the great relationship that we have developed with everyone at North Carolina State Parks." Since its formation over 13 years ago, Riggs Ward Design has offered multidisciplinary design services to a wide variety of clients. From its work with small, local museums and corporations to large government agencies, RWD has established a national reputation for excellence in design and customer service. RWD's unique range of services, combined with its staff of established and well-respected professionals, offers businesses, educational associations, and cultural institutions a single source for all of their creative and content needs.
04/09
Historic Christ Church
Historic Christ Church's new Visitors Center is scheduled to open April 25 to the public. Riggs Ward designed and programmed all of the new exhibit, visitor services and retail spaces, including the design and production of the hands-on and touchscreen interactive experiences.
04/09
Lake City, South Carolina
RWD has begun design services on a significant new agricultural museum in the Carolinas. Focusing on compelling personal stories and interactive exhibits, the museum will be the definitive exploration of farm life in the rural South.
09/08
With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
To celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, RWD and the Library of Congress will open an exhibition on February 12, 2009 featuring the 16th President's most significant speeches and writings.
07/08
Italian Dressing
RWD and the Virginia Center for Architecture announce the opening of Italian Dressing: Palladio and American Classicism, on display through October 5, 2008. Andrea Palladio's ideas remain heavily influential to architects today, 500 years after the first publishing of his revolutionary books.