WoW, National AIA, WoW

January 8, 2008July 11, 2008 | mjneal

[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.

Steel Around Trees

December 16, 2007July 21, 2008 | mjneal

Steel going up at the Larkey residence. One beam has been cut to go around a beautiful little Live oak. This allows us to save the tree and have some fun with the movement of the car port roof.

Dun Laoghaire Raises its Head…

November 29, 2007April 5, 2008 | mjneal

…and we raised a Lagavulin or three…maybe that’s why we didn’t get into the final selection, we were drinking Scotch instead of Irish wiskey.

You might recall the Dun Laoghaire Library competition. Well, here are a couple of images of it that one of my cohorts on the project , Jett Butler, Foda Studio, whipped up to use in his inspiring presentation at the TSA convention a couple of months ago.

whip it good!

Steely

November 29, 2007July 21, 2008 | mjneal

some of the steel has been erected at the Larkey site.

Moon (Units) Rising

November 29, 2007April 10, 2008 | mjneal

Check the Tub

November 6, 2007July 21, 2008 | mjneal

The Larkey foundation has poured. Check that sunken tub, level with the floor and adjacent courtyard. We’re rocking now!

Flying Screen not to be Confused with Flying Fish

November 6, 2007April 5, 2008 | mjneal

The super structure for the screens is complete. This shot was taken before the guide plates were removed. Now the edge flies…And here’s a distorted one of the front.

Dear Pillow DVD: Finally

November 5, 2007April 5, 2008 | mjneal

Y’all know about our other incarnation as filmmakers, right? (if you don’t, go to this web site, Barcelona Films is our little film production studio. (Hence the “inter-disciplinary studio moniker on our phone message”)

Well, I co-starred and helped produce a film by Bryan Poyser and Jake Vaughan called Dear Pillow. We were lucky enough to be selected for more than 35 film festivals around the world, win three of them, and Bryan was nominated for a Independent Spirit Award in the “Someone to Watch” category.

We just got DVD distribution and the DVD is coming out in Nov. 13th! (Is it a Friday???)

You can buy it here:

Dear Pillow DVD at Amazon..

Enjoy!!!! (don’t let the kids watch it:-)