October 16, 2011

Jorge & Silva with other First Street Green members participated in a panel discussion along with Jonathan Kuhn, Director of Art & Antiquities for the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the Lab co-curators, David van der Leer and Maria Nicanor and members of the community to share closing discussion on the last day of the BMW Guggenheim Lab.

October 12, 2011

First Street Green was invited by PPS to their event at the BMW Guggenheim Lab to hold a discussion group on the future of the park.

September 24, 2011

First Street Green participated in the BMW Guggenheim Lab's What's Next workshop in conjunction with the 1st Street Block Association's annual block party to continue gathering community ideas for future programming in the park. Our visioning wall was built and added to in the street.

September 10, 2011

TODO DA as a member of First Street Green hosted a programming workshop at the BMW Guggenheim Lab to gather community ideas for future programming in the park. Over 420 visioning tiles were written and drawn on by visitors and built into a 16' x 2' x 8' high visioning wall. Over 1500 participants attended the Lab that day.

July 2011

Todo Design & Architecture will be participating in the Exhibition "Leverage: Strengthening Neighborhoods through Design" at the Center for Architecture in Philadelphia from Saturday, October 1 through Sunday, October 23. The opening will be held on October 5, 2011. Check it out.

We attended the community preview of the BMW Guggenheim Lab on Saturday. Got a chance to see the place in motion. Getting ready for the October 2 official opening.

May 2011

The "First Street Green" team attended the kickoff breakfast for the "BMW Guggenheim Lab New York" at the Guggenheim Museum. Todo Design & Architecture and First Street Green are currently working on our September 10, 2011 workshop to take place in the Lab to introduce the future culture park to the community and get feedback on what types of programming will support the community's goals.

March 2011

We will be presenting "Into the Box: the Frame and its Discontents" lecture at "UNC Charlotte School of Architecture"later this month.

February 2011

"First Street Green�s" efforts with the Parks Department have attracted interest from the Guggenheim Museum which is moving ahead with hosting their "BMW Guggenheim Lab New York" component at the lot this year. First Street Green is working with the BMW Guggenheim Lab team to plan for the future of the lot after the lab moves away.

November 2010

"Blind Dates" opened at Pratt Manhattan Gallery on November 18. The show runs through February 12, 2011.

August 2010

Tribeca Loft has been included in the Hong Kong based International Interior Design Yearbook 2010.

Jorge published a "review" of the Remains Connected conversation between Silva and Aslihan at Pratt Manhattan Gallery. See entry under "May 2010".

May 2010

"Remains Connected" A conversation between architects Silva Ajemian and Aslihan Demirtas, moderated by Lebbeus Woods at Pratt Manhattan Gallery. "Remains Connected" is the second in a series of public discussions organized in conjunction with the Blind Dates curatorial project which opens at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in November, 2010.

March 2010

Silva will be presenting her component of the group show Blind Dates at the Arts in the One World 2010 conference at Brown University.

Jorge will be presenting "Why we draw, prehistory in architectural design" at the MADE Conference at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

September 2009

First Street Green had a table at this year's First Street block party. The Paris Bowl group including Ann, John and Scott distributed fliers and got the word out to the community that we are pushing ahead with plans for the park. They collected many signatures on their petition and raised awareness of our plans. For more information or to get involved, contact First Street Green.

July 2009

Grace Duo has been featured in Laura Houseley's book, The Independent Design Guide, published by Thames & Hudson.

June 2009

Bedrock has been awarded an honorable mention in the Andes Sprouts Society residency competition to design and build small and sustainable artist residences in upstate New York.

March 2009

Boston Home Magazine has published one of the bathrooms from Chelsea Loft in the Spring issue.

December 2008

Chelsea Loft has been completed. Take a look.

Casamica published Garden Spots .

November 2008

We are working with a local community group to develop a sculpture park in an abandoned lot on the lower east side of New York. 1st Street Green will be a local resource for the community and arts organizations to promote the arts downtown. Stay tuned.

October 2008

Landscape Magazine published Garden Spots .

May 2008

International Design Awards has awarded Garden Spots with 1st place in their IDA Land and Sea Competition. Press Release

I.C. International has published Bubble on their website.

April 2008

International Community of Designers (ICOD) has included Grace Duo in their catalog of work shown during Palermo Design Week 2007.

December 2007

The Designboom Premio Vico Magestretti competition"living simplicity in furniture design" show moved to the DePadova gallery in Miami during Art Basel. Grace Duo continues with the show.

October 2007

Canadian Interiors has included our Meshoush screen in an article on ICFF 2007.

Todo Design participated in a group show coordinated by ON/OFF as part of Palermo Design Week in Palermo, Italy.

Bubble, Grace Duo and LockNLoad designs were exhibited as part of the Lebanese design collective during Palermo Design Week 07 16-21 October 2007.

Todo Design's Grace Duo has been shortlisted in the Designboom Premio Vico Magestretti competition. It is currently being shown in the "living simplicity in furniture design" show at DePadova gallery in Milan during 3 - 31 October 2007. The Show catalog is available.

The show will then move to Miami for Art Basel 6-9 December 2007.

HC&G magazine has published the East Hampton residence.

August 2007

Russian design magazine LE magazine has included Grace Duo in their review of ICFF 2007.

June 2007

Grace Duo has been selected for Frame Magazine Newsletter's Design of the Month.

Todo Design's Vocabulary of Oil contribution to the Yo What Happened to Peace? ongoing exhibition has now been published by www.yowhathappenedtopeace.org.

Congratulations to the curator John Carr and the whole Yo group for putting together such a great book.

May 2007

Thank you to everyone who dropped by during ICFF 2007, it was a great show and fun meeting you all. And special thanks to all the bloggers who took the time to check out the work featured by swissmiss and MoCo Loco.

And not to forget PadStyle, Dish Magazine and Yanko Design who also discovered us at ICFF.

Todo Design will participate in ICFF 2007. Look for them in booth 609. Among other things, they will be showcasing LocknLoad shelving, Grace & Grace Duo seating and the Meshoush screen.

April 2007

Our entry in the Van Alen Institute Parachute Pavilion competition has been published by the Princeton Architectural Press.

August 2006

Slide Show:
Yerevan - 08/18/06

Ani Soukiasian is a contemporary art dealer and a writer. She is of Iranian-Armenian origin and has been living in Armenia for approximately 15 years. She is the founder/director of Akanat Art Gallery which is increasingly gaining respect as the most serious commercial contemporary-art venue in Yerevan.

Ani will share with us some projects/exhibits that her gallery has produced.

flickr clicked some snaps of Meshoush and LockNLoad.

Palermo Design Magazine has published the Grace chair in the 9/06 edition.

Ararat Magazine published Silva's Contested Space article in Spring 2006.

Architectural Record (July 2006) has published our Murray Street Loft project.
We want to congratulate everyone involved.

May 2006

Slide Show:
Tokyo - 05/04/06

Ken-ichiro Suzuki will be presenting his black and white photo series entitled "nowhere in tokyo", shot in the central district of Tokyo between 2002 and 2004 using a large format camera.

Ken-ichiro Suzuki is an architect from Japan, currently practicing in New York. “nowhere in tokyo” was first shown in Tokyo in 2004. This coming June he is invited to Barjola Museum in Gijon, Spain to have his second solo exhibition.

March 2006

Slide Show:
Library in Ghana - 03/29/06

Stefanie Werner will be showing slides of her recent trip to Ghana, Africa, where she started working on the design of a small library in a remote village called Larabanga.

Stefanie Werner is a graduate of the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany. She currently lives and practices architecture in New York City.

To view a selection of her images, please go to Stefanie's website: http://homepage.mac.com/werkstadt42/Menu4.html.

February 2006

Slide Show:
Mexico City - 02/15/06