Cloud computing company Appian is among the few that have continued to grow during the pandemic and related economic slowdown. That’s because it provides the critical tools (applications and a low-code automation platform) used by other businesses to rapidly adjust to the new norms of remote work. Appian had planned more than a year ago to relocate its expanding headquarters from Reston, Virginia, to a building in Tysons, Virginia, originally designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). Architects at CallisonRTKL (CRTKL) were asked to add a fresh interior of free-flowing, transparent and light-filled spaces—which, viewed from its dramatically open stairwell could be described as an abstraction of a cloud.

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