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Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies (KBAS) is a design and architecture firm founded in 2002 and based in
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. Its principals are Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman. Among the firm's completed projects are large-scale memorials such as the
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in
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, and business-sized workspaces such as Studio 34: Yoga , Healing , Arts, a yoga-and-arts studio in Philadelphia. In 2006, KBAS was named by the
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as a winner of the Young Architects competition for projects in the theme Instability. In 2011, the
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awarded the firm their National Honor Award. That year, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America awarded KBAS a Philament Award, and McGraw-Hill Construction selected them for Project of the Year in park/side/landscaping. That same year, the Design-Build Institute of America awarded KBAS their Design-Build Excellence Award. In 2012, the
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awarded KBAS a National Medal of Service (a gold medallion) at their Architects of Healing ceremony, which honored architects involved in 9/11 memorials and rebuilding efforts.


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* {{official website, http://kbas.co/
Arch Daily photos of Pentagon Memorial construction and installation
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