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Placestaking shape.

Positioning, brand and digital experiences for real estate development and hospitality.

From an early development vision to the experiences people eventually discover, navigate and use.

Explore selected work
ARDEN at dusk with the Detroit skyline
The Art of Place / Arch29

A place begins taking shape in people's minds long before they arrive.

The first encounter may be a plan, a story, a photograph, a conversation or a screen. Each one influences how the place is understood.

01 / Featured work · Real estate developmenttechvillagedevelopment.com ↗

Tech Village

177Acres · Grand Blanc Charter Township, Michigan
Tech Village home page: a place built for the walk homeResident survey quotes beside a concept imageThree parts, one walk: Baldwin to SaginawThe winter room on the plaza
01 · The information

What is known. What is being explored.

02 · The positioning

A place that will take shape over time.

03 · The platform

Designed to evolve with the development.

A development vision with many audiences, decisions and years ahead.

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Research and positioning / Visual identity / Content architecture / UX and interaction design / Frontend / CMS
Concepts and visualizations are illustrative and may change as planning progresses.

02 / Featured work · Residential identity · Digital experiencearden.place ↗

ARDEN

What could a residential development website become when treated as a digital product?

ARDEN is an independently developed residential identity and digital experience by Arch29, set in Detroit’s Brush Park. The project brings together architectural storytelling, interactive residence discovery, development information and spatial interaction in one connected digital platform.

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01 · Spatial interaction

Move through the building. Understand the place.

The ARDEN courtyard in daylightThe ARDEN courtyard at dusk
Afternoon · 3:00 pmBlue hour · 8:45 pm

Swipe through the site →

ARDEN home page: sixty-eight residences, three buildings and a courtyard
02 · Residence discovery

A home is more than a floor-plan thumbnail.

Individual residence pages, unit information and interactive exploration make it possible to understand a residence in relation to the wider development.

Four ways to live here, the residence types
Residence A-02 page with specification and plan
The residences index with filters
Amenities: the bath house in the original brick vaults
03 · The Record

A place for the facts behind the vision.

Development sources, project information and supporting evidence as part of the experience.

The block in 3D, lit for an evening in June
The city, on foot: ten minutes to Ford Field and Comerica Park
Woodward and Mack, eight minutes to the Q-Line
Midtown, a short ride north
See it live

Every residence, floor and view, on arden.place.

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ARDEN is an independent Arch29 project. The residential development depicted is imagined; imagery and property details are illustrative.

03 / Featured work · Positioning · Identity · Digital experiencecurexassetgroup.com ↗

CureX

A clearer public identity for a business working across

Land.Capital.People.
The CureX Asset Group home page: land, capital and people, for places with a plan
01 / 05 Home
The project register map: six public projects and engagements in four states
02 / 05 Project register
Our story, a timeline from housing programs to land, capital and people
03 / 05 Our story
About: a public-private development firm with its roots in housing
04 / 05 About
CureX engagements with roles and status
05 / 05 Engagements

A positioning and digital system that communicates the breadth of the business without reducing it to one type of project.

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Positioning / Brand identity / Content strategy / Information architecture / UX / Frontend / CMS

More work

Selected projects
04Bubble MeExpress car wash · Hanford, CaliforniaBrand identity, website and membership experience for a new express car wash.
Bubble Me Express Car Wash home page
05GimpvilleVFX and animation studio · Oslo, NorwayA studio website and careers experience shaped around its production work and creative identity.
Gimpville studio home page
The practice

What we work on.

Arch29 works across the decisions that shape how a development, destination or business is understood and experienced.

01

Research & Positioning

Audience research, competitive context, strategic positioning and the foundations of a clear project narrative.

Positioning map from the CureX Asset Group brand system
02

Identity

Naming exploration, verbal and visual identity, design systems and the applications that give a brand consistency and character.

Badawest, proposed hospitality brand and website direction
03

Digital Experience

Digital strategy, information architecture, UX, interactive design, content systems and frontend implementation.

Sanity Studio editing the live CureX Asset Group home page
04

Development Experience

Project websites, interactive masterplans, residence discovery, leasing interfaces, spatial storytelling and digital tools developed around specific real estate needs.

ARDEN residence plan with room names and dimensions

Engagements are shaped around the project. Arch29 works directly from strategy through implementation and collaborates with specialist disciplines when required.

Selected experience / Before Arch29

Experience across complex digital products, ambitious brands and multidisciplinary teams.

01 / 038M
NOK annual savings

A digital transport-planning product developed to improve operations across a national fresh-produce distribution network.

BAMA Smart Transport · Frontend · Insight Award 2023
02 / 033
Creative awards

Two Gulltaggen awards and a Visuelt Digital Design Diploma for the Øya × Fretex campaign.

Øya × Fretex · Frontend and digital experience · 2023
03 / 03UN
Ocean Conference, Nice 2025

A digital platform developed to connect ocean innovation projects with partners and funding opportunities.

Ocean Matcher · Co-Product lead, UX, frontend · REV Ocean

Before founding Arch29, Jessica worked across digital products, experience strategy and frontend development for organizations spanning technology, commerce and public services.

  1. 01

    Øya × Fretex

    Two Gulltaggen awards 2023 · Visuelt (Grafill) award 2023Music festival and national second-hand retailer · Campaign website · Frontend, digital experience
  2. 02

    BAMA Smart Transport

    Insight Award 2023Major Norwegian fresh-produce company · Transport planning platform · Frontend development and design system
  3. 03

    Ocean Matcher

    UN Ocean Decade · UX Nordic Award 2026Ocean innovation platform · Projects, funders and partners · Co-Product Lead / UX, frontend development
  4. 04

    Norwegian Football Federation

    Norway's national football federation · Membership and ticketing · UX research, journey mapping, platform analysis
  5. 05

    Bane NOR

    Norway's national railway infrastructure · Enterprise web platform · Frontend development, Optimizely DXP
  6. 06

    OBS Bygg Installation

    Part of Coop Norge, Norway's cooperative retail group · Installation service pilot · Frontend development
  7. 07

    Consultant OnePager

    Sales toolingConsultancy sales tooling · Profiles for bids and tenders · A bid tool that turns consultant profiles kept in one CMS into tender-ready one-pagers in minutes, not hours · Product design, content modeling, frontend

Selected work from Jessica's time at NoA Ignite, developed with multidisciplinary teams. Recognition belongs to the respective projects and teams.

JessicaWarr

Portrait of Jessica Warr

Strategy, identity and digital experience belong in the same conversation.

Jessica Warr founded Arch29 after more than fifteen years working across design, digital products and technology, including multidisciplinary consultancy work in Norway and independent practice in the United States.

Her background brings together strategic positioning, experience design, content architecture and frontend engineering, supported by education in front-end development, UX and business. This breadth informs how she approaches projects, connecting early strategic decisions with the identity, systems and digital experiences that follow.

Based in Michigan, her practice is increasingly focused on real estate development, hospitality and place. She is a Sanity Certified Developer and an accepted technical provider at the Lansing Regional SmartZone.

Client work since2010

Brand, product and digital

Selected recognition

Two Gulltaggen awards and the Insight Award

Through projects delivered with NoA Ignite teams

Education

Design. Development. Business.

Front-end development and UX, and business studies

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Based in Michigan. Working across the United States and internationally.