Mancini•Duffy/TSC on AIA Broadcastr

Image of New York at Night by Aris Carlot.

This past spring a number of our firm members recorded interviews for AIA Broadcastr, an app now being piloted that, in the words of the AIA, allows listeners to “learn more about New York City’s architecture through the voice of practicing architects and AIA members.”

The interviews are up! If you go to this link, you’ll find them organized by neighborhood. Click on images to hear Senior Associate Ed Calabrese talk about Bloomingdale’s and Saks, Principal Alan Dandron on the Time Warner Conference Center, Chairman & CEO Tony Schirripa on AOL at 770 Broadway, and President Dina Frank on Dorsey & Whitney in the CBS Building, as well as discussions of Starbucks Times Square and OppenheimerFunds’ broadcast center.

The pilot also covers projects in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. As the AIA urges: “Take advantage of this immersive experience.”

Thanks for listening.

Bloomingdale's Santa Monica Wins Award in RDI's International Store Design Competition

Photograph by Grey Crawford.

Congratulations once again to the Mancini•Duffy Retail Group, whose design for Bloomingdale's Santa Monica has placed in RDI's International Store Design Competition. The level of award will be announced at a reception in Manhattan on January 10th. Best wishes go out to the team behind the Santa Monica Place design, which included Senior Associate Edward Calabrese, Creative Director; Senior Associate Lisa Contreras, Resource Director; Senior Associate Marian Crawford, IIDA, FRDI, Project Director; Stan Kao, Senior Designer; Courtney Kemper, Project Designer; George Winsper, Job Captain, 1st Floor; and Alex Mai, Job Captain, 2nd Floor. Go here for more about the store.

A Wonderful Turn-out for OHNY!

John Sadlon with guests (left) and Kristina Piccoli and Meghan O'Reilly with young designers from Georgia Southern University

Thank you, everyone, who came to visit us on Saturday as part of openhousenewyork. We had a great turn-out: over 250 visitors stopped by our office in the course of the seven-hour day. Visitors took tours of our space and heard talks about the history of our firm and our offices at 39 West 13th Street, the design process, a proposed project in the UAE, and our recently completed Bloomingdale’s Santa Monica store, as well as participating in a learning session about workplace strategy. Our youngest visitor was two years old, our largest tour included 27 people, and we had a special visit from a group of bright young interior design majors from Georgia Southern University. Some groups stayed for as long as an hour (!). We got great feedback from visitors, including one lovely woman who said that she’d been going on OHNY tours for seven years and this was the best tour she’d ever been on.

A huge thank-you to our team who made this event such a success: Steve Bleiweiss; Peyton Cochran; Marian Crawford, IIDA, FRDI; Alan Dandron, IIDA, LEED AP; Michael Kirn, AIA; Melissa Marsh, Assoc. AIA; Meghan O’Reilly, LEED AP; Kristina Piccoli, LEED AP; John Sadlon, Assoc. AIA, as well as our OHNY volunteers, especially Tuula A. who was such a joy to work with.