Jennifer S. Hyk

Thoughtful writer, coach-you-up editor, and process geek always searching for the best answer to what a guy oughta do and the smartest way to do it.

Featured Work

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Blueprint South Dakota | An AIA South Dakota blog

Prairie Business Magazine cover story: Redeveloping a riverscape

Several AIA SD members are featured for their roles in planning, developing, designing, and delivering projects that contribute to the vibrancy and quality of life along the Big Sioux River in Sioux Falls. Earned media story pitch and resources.

Blueprint South Dakota | An AIA South Dakota blog

Prairie Business Magazine cover story: Dakotans who stay to design their communities

AIA SD is proud to count as members many homegrown architects who’ve chosen to stay in the Dakotas and shape their communities. We thought other people should know them, too. Earned media story pitch and resources.

The South Dakota Standard

VP candidate Walz is right — we mind our own business, but we also care for and help each other

Sometimes you tweet a rant, and someone asks if they can string it together as a guest essay. Neighboring is an activity to make sure others are all right while leaving them their choices.

Blueprint South Dakota

Dignity Through Design: Better Serving a Diverse Population

During my time at an integrated design firm, I coordinated and edited this guest column written by my sister. It highlights how functionality in public spaces matters for families like hers.

SiouxFalls.Business

As Harrisburg builds for the future, 'this feels like a huge step in the right direction'

A new combination primary healthcare clinic and retail pharmacy is a first for the fast-growing community.

SiouxFalls.Business

First look: New airport additions to include parking ramp, terminal renovations

A new parking structure will be the highest-dollar-value construction project in the airport’s history.

First look: Major airport upgrades include parking ramp, terminal renovations, Cinnabon

TeamTSP.com version for this article, with a specialized layout that creates multiple entry points for readers using digital media.

SiouxFalls.Business

Innovation Team keeps legacy firm moving forward

Emerging leaders have a stronger voice on a new team whose members test many different answers to the question “What if we ____?”

SiouxFalls.Business

Personal passions help drive project outcomes

Staff members' meaningful connections to school districts, healthcare systems, and civic groups create better end-user experiences.

The building trends, technology, and products driving design and construction projects in 2021

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SiouxFalls.Business

The building trends, technology, products driving next year’s design, construction projects

In 2020, everyone took a crash course in making spaces safer and more livable. Those challenges will extend into 2021. So must new approaches to form and function.

SiouxFalls.Business

Local projects take shape, raise money through visual storytelling

Photorealistic renderings and interactive models help clients and prospective donors imagine all they can accomplish in their future facilities.

Back to work: Smarter, safer offices in the pandemic age

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SiouxFalls.Business

Back to work: Smarter, safer offices in the pandemic age

Welcoming employees back into buildings requires a new sort of flexibility — a need to accommodate team members with a wide range of comfort levels.

Here to help: Supporting clients & communities during COVID-19

TeamTSP.com version for this article, with multiple breakouts that link to sidebar pieces on project types.

SiouxFalls.Business

The right projects at the right time: Supporting clients during COVID

TSP’s architects, engineers and interior designers are helping clients identify the right projects to keep people at work and in school.

SiouxFalls.Business

Turnover is expensive. One solution? Create a company your employees won’t want to leave

Nearly half of this local company's employees have been with the firm for at least a decade — and double-digits of workers have hit the 30-year mark.

SiouxFalls.Business

Building community, one relationship at a time

Positive effects take root when businesses invest in local causes.

SiouxFalls.Business

Considering a building project? Here's how three businesses started the right way

Whether they realize it or not, clients usually need more than the extra rooms or updated interiors that bring them to an architect’s door.

SiouxFalls.Business

Made to last: Places take on greater meaning as they evolve with the community

Time-tested designs serve their communities for generations and witness the full range of life’s milestones.

AIA South Dakota

Founder: 'Design it like you own it'

Architect Harold T. Spitznagel took his first payment in baked goods and went on to shape communities statewide through his distinctive designs. (Pages 12-17.)