Design

NEW YORK, NY—The Alliance for Downtown New York, the business improvement district serving Lower Manhattan south of Chambers Street, has installed its latest Re:Construction piece, “Water Movements,” at Titanic Park, located at Fulton and Pearl streets at the entrance to

NEW YORK, NY—Engineering News-Record (ENR), McGraw-Hill Construction’s prestigious publication and website and part of The McGraw-Hill Companies, announces that John R. Hillman, founder and president of Chicago-based HC Bridge Co., is the recipient of its 45th annual Award of Excellence. John Hillman received the award in front of 1,000 peers on April 8 at a black-tie awards gala in New York City. He was one of ENR’s Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009, who were also honored.
 

OJAI, CA—RESPONSIBLE LUXURY joined the Bazzeo family in late 2009, with a showroom showcasing the full Bazzeo line slated to open in early spring 2010.

NEW YORK, NY—SL Green Realty Corp. announces the completion of a $4.5 million lobby and storefront redevelopment at 333 W. 34th Street, the 10-story, 349,896-square-foot tower situated midblock between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

NEW YORK, NY—Midtown’s 211 East 51st Street, “an intrinsically Manhattan building in an intrinsically Manhattan neighborhood,” will be the venue of an exclusive showing of Carrie Sunday’s most recent collection on Thursday, February 18, 2010, from 6- to 10 p.m. in its street level retail space on the east side of the building.

NEW YORK, NY—Leading interiors firm, MKDA, has been tapped by Bloomingdale Properties to assist in repositioning 1385 Broadway, an important asset in the growing Times Square South office market. The design firm is creating a new state-of-the–art entrance and lobby, and will upgrade the building’s elevator cabs, tenant corridors and restrooms.

“Located at West 38th Street, Bloomingdale Properties is modernizing its asset in order to benefit the building’s existing and new tenants,” said MKDA President Michael Kleinberg.

NEW YORK, NY–NYLOFT Kitchen & Home Interiors recently learned that several of the firm's recent projects have been featured in the international release of “COOK! Best of Kitchen Design, by BRAUN Verlag/Berlin Germany.

NEW YORK, NY / ANKARA, TURKEY–International architectural company RMJM has designed, on behalf of developer O"zkar Construction Co., a new luxury hotel that will help “green” the Sogutozu district of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey.

Located on a 14,000 square-meter site, the luxurious 24-story J. W. Marriott Hotel devotes the first four floors to spacious ballrooms, meeting facilities, restaurants and shops in a sky-lit galleria,  with guest rooms starting on the fifth floor. The plan also includes an underground parking garage.

PHOENIX, AZ—“The Galleries at Turney”, designed by the nationally-acclaimed architectural firm, [merz]project architecture + interiors + urban design was chosen by the Host Committee of Greenbuild 2009, to be showcased as one of the feature projects during their planned Greenbuild Tours Arizona, with a possible audience of over 25,000 expected conference participants, heading to the American Southwest in late fall 2009.

[merz]project announced that the “Galleries at Turney” will be participating in the 2009 Contemporary Desert Living Tour, as part of the USGBC (United States Green Building Council) annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. The conference will take place in Phoenix, Arizona on November 11-13, with a guided architectural tour to wrap up the weeks’ events on Saturday, November 14, 2009.