Brad Zizmor Archives - Interior Design https://interiordesign.net/tag/brad-zizmor/ The leading authority for the Architecture & Design community Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:38:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://interiordesign.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ID_favicon.png Brad Zizmor Archives - Interior Design https://interiordesign.net/tag/brad-zizmor/ 32 32 SheltonMindel and Architecture + Information Earn an Iconic Old Classic Best of Year Award for a Private New York Office https://interiordesign.net/projects/sheltonmindel-and-architecture-information-earn-an-iconic-old-classic-best-of-year-award-for-a-private-new-york-office/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:23:17 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_project&p=192243 2021 Best of Year winner for Iconic Old Classic. Experiencing perhaps the greatest James Turrell piece in New York doesn’t require a museum membership. You only need to have business to conduct with this family-run office designed by SheltonMindel and Architecture + Information. This project is the 2021 Best of Year winner for Iconic Old Classic.

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January 21, 2022

Words: Ted Loos

Photography: Michael Moran

SheltonMindel and Architecture + Information Earn an Iconic Old Classic Best of Year Award for a Private New York Office

2021 Best of Year winner for Iconic Old Classic

Experiencing perhaps the greatest James Turrell piece in New York doesn’t require a museum membership. You only need to have business to conduct with this family-run office. Rising through its double-height reception area is Turrell’s enormous hollow egg shape, a chamber that required a laborious six-month process to construct from white solid-surfacing and concealed LEDs. Typically for this master of light and space, his mysterious conceptual sculpture alters our perceptions. Once you enter the egg and encounter the shifting colors inside, everything outside it looks different for a few seconds.

Like the Turrell, its surroundings make us see the world differently. A Manhattan office, it turns out, can be as graciously proportioned and serene as a Palladian villa. That’s thanks to the impressive real estate: 40,000 square feet of a tower by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and even more so to the joint efforts of the interiors firms, led by Interior Design Hall of Fame members Lee Mindel, Brad Zizmor, and Dag Folger, the latter two the co-founding principals of A+I. Mindel relates the egg installation to the philanthropic work done by the client: “This is a metaphoric think tank. They desired contemplative spaces, as opposed to some others that we all know of. That’s something beyond interior design.”

SheltonMindel and Architecture+Information
SheltonMindel and Architecture+Information
SheltonMindel and Architecture+Information
SheltonMindel and Architecture+Information
PROJECT TEAM:
sheltonmindel: Grace V. Sierra; Michael Neal; Marc C. Newman; Emily M. Meroney; Margaret O’Connor
Architecture + Information: Brad Zizmor; Dag Folger; Cheryl Baxter; Nisha Mary Prasad; Chris Shelley; Abby Kuskin; Aaron Whitney; Katina Max Kremelberg

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]]> A+I Transforms Part of a Commercial Compound Near DUMBO into a Tech-Forward Office https://interiordesign.net/designwire/ai-transforms-part-of-a-commercial-compound-near-dumbo-into-a-tech-forward-office/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:21:20 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_news&p=189034 A+I was commissioned to transform 175 Pearl Street—a portion of the compound on the edge of the adjoining DUMBO neighborhood—into office space with creative and tech tenants in mind.

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October 11, 2021

Words: Wilson Barlow

Photography: Magda Biernat

A+I Transforms Part of a Commercial Compound Near DUMBO into a Tech-Forward Office

For decades, a glowing red sign reading “Watchtower” sat atop a fortresslike building near the Brooklyn Bridge, signaling it as the world headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. When the denomination relocated from Brooklyn Heights to Upstate New York, the sprawling multibuilding campus was redeveloped for commercial use and its new owners erected a 15-foot-tall LED-illuminated sign with a different message: “Welcome.”

A+I was commissioned to transform 175 Pearl Street—a portion of the compound on the edge of the adjoining DUMBO neighborhood—into office space with creative and tech tenants in mind. Though in its previous life the building was largely closed to outsiders, its latest iteration is more inclusive and inviting. “It feels definitively connected to the community,” A+I co-founder and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Brad Zizmor says. In the lobby, an energetic mural titled Monday Morning by local artist Tomi Um conveys an immediate sense of place with its imagery of commuters bustling across the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.

When conceiving the amenity spaces, A+I took advantage of the fact that the eight-story structure is located on the highest point in the area, transforming a previously unused rooftop into a terraced outdoor deck with synthetic turf and white-oak seating nooks. “It’s a wow space that didn’t break the budget,” cofounder and fellow Interior Design HoF member Dag Folger adds. On the exterior of the stair tower connecting the roof to the offices—and visible from the Brooklyn Bridge—is a floral mural by Crown Heights artist Mike Perry that spells out the universal greeting, “Hi.”

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