The 2012 Floor Focus Vision Awards, Retail Style

Photo by Grey Crawford

We’re pleased to report that our design for Bloomingdale’s Santa Monica took home the Retail category prize in the 2012 Floor Focus Vision awards.

This will be our fifth (!) award for the Santa Monica store. In 2010, the project won First Place in RDI’s International Store Design Awards in the New or Renovated Specialty Department Store category and an Honorable Mention in the Department Store category in Chain Store Age’s Retail Store of the Year Design Competition. In 2011, Bloomingdale’s Santa Monica was recognized by the A.R.E. Retail Design Awards with the Grand Prize in the Specialty Department Stores over 25,000 square feet category, and it also took home First Place in DDI’s 2011 Portfolio Awards for the Best Designed Store of the Year.

The team, which included Edward Calabrese, RDI, Senior Associate, Creative Director; Marian Crawford, IIDA, FRDI, Senior Associate, Project Director; George Winsper, Assoc. AIA, Associate, Job Captain, 1st Floor; and Alex Mai, Job Captain, 2nd Floor, are probably a little exhausted from being congratulated so many times. 

The award carries with it a prize of $2000, which Mancini•Duffy/TSC plans to donate to God’s Love We Deliver. In 2012, the inaugural year of the Vision Awards, our project for Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto took home the Grand Prize, which carried a prize of $4000, which we donated to Americares in the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Skip Lunch Fight Hunger

Mancini•Duffy/TSC is thrilled to be participating in City Harvest’s Skip Lunch Fight Hunger for our third year in a row. In the words of City Harvest, “Each summer, thousands of New York City children who depend on school lunches the rest of the year may face hunger – Skip Lunch Fight Hunger raises funds to provide those children and their families with food, by asking New Yorkers to donate what they would normally spend on lunch to help feed our city’s hungry.” We’re further thrilled to join the august company of so many of our clients in this endeavor – go here to see the teams contributing, or here if you'd like to do us the honor of joining our team.

The event will run a full workweek this year, from May 14th through May 18th, in honor of its tenth anniversary. We'll be focusing our fundraising efforts on that Wednesday – and so that no one faints from low blood sugar, Mancini•Duffy/TSC will be buying everyone pizza that day.

Starbucks Times Square gets an A.R.E Award

Photograph by Ari Burling.

In the 2012 Association for Retail Environments’ Design Awards program, Starbucks took home an In-Store Communications Award in the Individual Element category for the Times Square flagship redesign. Mancini•Duffy/TSC worked alongside Starbucks’ team on this 3,000-square-foot location.

In the words of the A.R.E., “The Times Square Starbucks flagship makes customers feel like they are backstage at a Broadway show. Stage lighting and set backdrops help create the look, while nine-foot plasma screens present Twitter and Facebook posts made from within the store from customers in real time. In addition, a photo booth features two touchscreens where customers can take pictures and beam them to screens or save them as souvenirs. The end result is a multimedia-driven way of connecting the company’s coffeehouse customers socially.”

As of early 2012, we've completed seventeen projects for Starbucks across the country, with another twenty-five currently underway by our hardworking Mancini•Duffy/TSC Starbucks project team. Congratulations to our team on the Times Square project, which included Carlos Carrasco; Jacqueline DiBernardo; and Ira Sanchick, AIA.

Anthony P. Schirripa, FAIA, IIDA Appointed to the AIA Board of Directors

Tony at his AIA NY Chapter inauguration in 2009. Photo by Sam Lahoz.

Congratulations to Mancini•Duffy/TSC’s Chairman and CEO Tony Schirripa, who was elected to the National Board of Directors of the AIA. Tony will serve on the Board from the close of the 2012 annual meeting of the Board until the close of its 2014 meeting.

Previously, Tony served as a Director on the AIA New York State Board of Directors, as well as President of the AIA New York Chapter in 2010.

Of the appointment, Executive Director of the AIA New York Chapter, Rick Bell, FAIA said: "Tony Schirripa was elected to represent the architects of New York on the AIA National Board because of the depth of his understanding of the profession and his articulate advocacy of the value of design. As President of the AIA New York Chapter, Tony led our strategic planning effort, envisioning the future of how we work together to improve our practice, our city and our world. An activist, thinker and doer, Tony Schirripa joins the AIA Board as someone who knows how to make things happen."

Happy Holidays

NBC SPORTS GROUP - TEAM WORK

As we continue our hard work on NBC Sports Group's Broadcast Facility in Stamford, CT., I'm thrilled to be a part of our team's incredibly collaborative design process. Responding to highly technical requirements while aspiring to aesthetic excellence has led to an open design dialogue among all team members in an integrated "atelier". Hats off to all who've contributed to date: Kristi Bernick; David Campana, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP; Aris Carlot; Amanda Colonna, LEED AP; Johanna Devia; Jeremiah Hancock, Assoc. AIA LEED AP; Mark Harbick, AIA, IIDA, LEED AP; Michael Kirn, AIA; and Michael Santilli.

Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame

Mancini Duffy/TSC employees enjoyed an evening of festive glamour last night while attending the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame at the Waldorf Astoria. Everyone was dressed to impress but especially one of our most talented designers, Heather L. Groff. Groff was adorned in her very own hand-sewn sheer gown made entirely of the iconic Mira Knoll fabric. Thank you Knoll for supplying the beautiful fabric and thanks Heather for showing off your awesome talents and eye for style!

Mancini-DuffyTSC designer, Heather L. Groff in Heather L. Groff gown constructed of Mira Sheer by Knoll Textiles

Mancini-DuffyTSC designers, Amanda Colonna, Heather L. Groff and Kristi Bernick

Cheers!