Year: 2008

FODA Wins Addy!

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FODA STUDIO has put up a segment on the stunning design they did for the Moon Units ad for Tribeza.

Their BIG NEWS, though, is that they WON TWO ADDY AWARDS last night! A gold medal and a Best of Show for direct Marketing and Printing Excellence. Well, we’ve know for years they are the best talent in town and beyond but our little secret is really out now that they are running with the big dogs… They SO deserve it, we’ve been telling ya… Just hoping they don’t get too big for us, now!!!

FODA STUDIO FOREVER CONGRATS JETT!!!!!

Becoming

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“Human beings can be divided into two tendencies. The large majority remain locked in the past. They produce nothing but imitation and degradation of what they imitate. The others, a minority, are fully involved in an effort to understand the present-to prepare for tomorrow and reveal it.”

Andre’ Wogenscky
from Le Corbusier’s Hands

Goofy Looks

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The masterminds and muscle behind the Moon Units hard at thinking. MJ, Paul Autrey (obviously quite the longhorn fan) with Rick, his brother, in the cap and Charlie, one of the superintendents, in the cowboy hat. Dentrey Builders are in charge of this project construction. You guys go!!!

Wolfe Den Deck, Details + Shadows

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We’ve had some beautiful days of light this last week even if or possibly because of the high cedar pollen count. Some of us are suffering mightily! I managed to drag myself to the job site and snap a few shots in between sneezing and snorting and just generally trying to breath.

I’ve read that J. Frank Dobie’s cure for Cedar fever was to leave town during the season. I think he got it right.

Here are the images…

And that’s all for now, I’m going to take my homeopathy.

Lost Images

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I was poking around old files and found these (I had never even seen them before) They are an old incarnation of a house that will never be, but I thought I put them here. We can’t post what we are working on right this minute, because it’s a couple of competitions and we can’t make the work public until there’s a winner… But if you happen to come by the office, you can sneak a peek:-)

Anyway, I hope MJ is cool with my posting these here. If not well, I’ll delete the entry:-) I like this house a lot and just in case you were wondering if you can build amazing houses on steep sites, yes you can… say no to huge retaining walls!!!!

WoW, National AIA, WoW

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[We (Oooooohhhhhhhhh)Won]

Can you BELIEVE it???

M. J. Neal Architects just won the 2008 Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

It’s a great day, it’s a great, big, fat, new…. year!!!!

This project had already won an Austin AIA Design Award and the Texas Society of Architects (TSA) Honor Design Award, and let’s not forget the International IIDA Award (my favorite, see previous post)

The anecdote? We almost didn’t submit the project! Farley Studio was doing so well at competitions that when we were done submitting it, MJ, who was hungry and tired, said, “ah, let’s blow it off and go to Asti to eat… I was hungry and tired too…but something told me to submit Anthony Nak, so I stayed on and BAM! You never know, do you?:-)

Yey for being dogheaded when I’m hungry and tired and double yey for MJ’s design excellence!!!!

Here’s the video the TSA made for the 2005 State Design Honor Award.

Scott Randall Productions by Scott Randall. emailto:sr@scottrandall.com.
Copyright 2005 by the Texas Society of Architects.