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Richard Chai Design Competition

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:55:44 +0000

www.buildingfashion.org

BOFFO and Spilios Gianakopoulus with Architizer.com have released the Richard Chai Design Competition. Deadline: September 8, 2010 11:59 EST. Project Dates: October 21 – 31, 2010.

Click here to enter competition

Building Fashion: Heather Huey Design Competition

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:01:51 +0000

BOFFO and Spilios Gianakopoulus with Architizer.com have released the Heather Huey Design Competition!

Click Here to Enter the Competition

Building Fashion

Building Fashion: Simon Spurr Competition

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:14:38 +0000

BOFFO and Spilios Gianakopoulus with Architizer.com have released the Simon Spurr Design Competition!

Building Fashion is a series of installations that celebrate the intersection of fashion and architecture located underneath the High Line on the site of Neil M. Denari Architects’ HL23 in the Chelsea Arts District. Building Fashion is comprised of six competitions with the first installation opening to the public on July 15th and consecutive installations running through September 19, 2010.

Click Here to Enter the Competition

Building Fashion

Building Fashion: Supima Field Design Competition

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:31:30 +0000

BOFFO and Spilios Gianakopoulus with Architizer.com have released the Supima Cotton Field Design Competition!

The first challenge is to design the Supima Field that spans half of the distance between 23^rd and 24^th street underneath the High Line. The design needs to create a flexible outdoor space with a small pavilion to host a range of outdoor parties and events. The competition guidelines can be found at www.architizer.com

Click Here to Enter the Competition

Building Fashion

Housing Works: Design on a Dime Benefit

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:00:56 +0000

“On behalf of Housing Works and our thousands of clients, thank you for your generous support of this year’s Design on a Dime benefit. With your commitment, we raised over $700,000 in support of our comprehensive services for low-income people living with HIV and AIDS. Making 2010 a record breaking year would not be possible without the tireless dedication of our amazing designers and countless volunteers. Thank you for making Design on a Dime 2010 bigger and better than ever before.” – Housing Works

Andrew Schles www.andrewschles.com

Jessica Angel www.jessicaangelarts.com

Jen Poueymirou

press:

Re-Nest

Interior Design Magazine

ICFF 2010: Valspar and Sheetseat

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:49:07 +0000

Ufuk Keskin and Efecem Kutuk, former BOFFO studio members, were selected by the ICFF Studioo Bernhardt to present the Sheet Seat.

Sheetseat is a folding chair cut from a single sheet of plywood with a thickness of 3/4″ when collapsed. This simple innovation in flat-pack seating allows for storage and transportation in even the tightest of spaces. (Around 60 of them be fit in a standard sedan’s trunk). It’s easy manufacturing process minimizes use of energy and labor during production. Collaboration with: Efecem Kutuk

BOFFO collaborated with the Valspar paints to curate the color story for their live action demonstration at the ICFF show. We look forward to further collaborations in the future.

Treehugger.com

Design on a Dime: BOFFO presents Flemish Masterpieces

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:46:53 +0000

Please join us for a showing of
FLEMISH MASTERPIECES – DINING ROOM – FURNITURE COLLECTION

for HOUSING WORKS “Design on a Dime” 2010.

A vignette by BOFFO . Faris Al-Shathir & Gregory Sparks/ directors. (www.boffo-ny.org)

DESIGNS & ARTWORKS BY:
Andrew Schles, Jessica Angel, Faris Al-Shathir, Gregory Sparks,
+SeiSe Bothers Chandelier, Jen Pouyemirou, Arden Wohl.

INFO:
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION FUND RAISING EVENT
Thursday, May 06, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York, NY

BUY TICKETS for May 6: $150 @ http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/design-on-a-dime-2010/

Guests will get the ﬁrst public look at 50 room vignettes and enjoy exclusive preview shopping, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and live entertainment. The shopping continues with the Free Public Sale, May 7-8.

websites:
www.BOFFO-NY.org
www.Andrewschles.com
www.jessicaangelarts.com/

Instigative Landscapes

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:26:33 +0000

“If the goal of designing the urban surface is to increase its capacity to support and diversify activities in time – even activities that cannot be determined in advance – then a primary design strategy is to extend its continuity while diversifying its range of services.” - Alex Wall Manhattan County with a population density of 70,595 people per square mile is one of the densest cities on earth. The city system overlaps transit, open spaces, commercial and residential, and the public and private. The joined experience of temporal and historic landscapes is vital to the vibrant evolving urban environment. At the same time, the need for spaces of rest and reflection are paramount to the well being of Manhattanites. They serve not only for personal use, but as locations for community, business, and healthy urban growth. Interventions of temporal instigative spaces bridging these systems can strengthen and create opportunities for urban development. Moments of urban decay within densely populated neighborhoods such as vacant underutilized lots and spaces in transition are part of a cycle of urban renewal that sustains the vivacity of the city. Many of these lots stay vacant for years, creating pockets of crime and filth which negatively impact local residents and business owners. The Instigative landscape project will spark a constructive urban ecology that supplements existing productive systems by appropriating these lots and developing public installations. The instigative landscape project will comprise of a three-part competition that evolves from conceptualization to realization of systemically appropriate interventions. We will begin with a single site that will grow into a network of summer parks which promote community, economic, and environmental revitalization and growth. The competition will give artists, architects, landscape architects, or designers the platform to enact their vision as well as an urban community and landscape development.

Closing Party – So much fun you will never forget it.

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:08:06 +0000

fun and more fun

Dear Everyone,
We love you so much that we have decided to have a closing party just for you. Its going to be so much fun you will never forget it. Come over to our space around 8pm on Saturday November 21. Look out for us or signs or something because there is some construction taking place and we can’t get back to the exhibition the same way as before. Chances are you will enter off of the south side of the building, close to Atlantic Avenue.

We have bands galore and if I didn’t say so already, its going to be so much fun. I promise. Also there is really beautiful artwork to see and there will be fun people and it will be fun.

Can’t wait to see you there.

–

BOFFO
One Brooklyn Bridge Park
360 Furman Street
Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201

MAP

Subway

2,3,4,5,M,R to Court Street/Borough Hall – Walk down Joralemon until you hit the water. The building will be on the left hand side. Follow the signs or ask someone at the front desk about the exhibition.

Extended Through November 20, 2009

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:54:29 +0000

We are open Thrusday – Sunday 11-7, Tuesday & Wednesday by appointment only.

One Brooklyn Bridge Park

360 Furman Street

Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201