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AWARDS!!! This week we found out that 4 recent Sequined Asphault Studio client shoots have earned their respective designers the position of finalist in the Connecticut Cottages and Gardens Magazine Innovation in Design Awards! Wow, that was a mouthful. Awesome. The big winners are announced later this month at a fancy schmansy shindig. Fingers crossed.
I’d love to show you the photos here, but you’re just going to have to wait to enjoy your cup of tea and the magazine when the July/August issue hits the stands.
You know the drill. Please help decide. Choose which one you like better and if you’re feeling it, tell us why.
This past few weeks I’ve been packaging awards entries for clients right and left, so it was exciting to receive some great feedback.
The design team at Beinfield Architecture has been awarded a 2012 Business in Architecture Award from the Connecticut American Institute of Architects (CT AIA) for this great private jet hangar and FBO.
The coolest thing about this award for me, besides the experience of taking photos at dusk on an airport tarmac, is what it takes to win according to the AIA’s criteria:
This statewide award honors architects for solving business problems for Connecticut clients, thereby demonstrating the power of architecture to shape business performance, to improve peoples’ lives and provide a value added service to clients in a business setting that far exceeds the costs of that service.
It’s why we do, what we do, right?
Purple is my favorite color, though I’ve never used it to decorate in my own home… well, that’s not exactly true… my last bedroom closet was stripped an amazing shade of glossy purple and a matte lavender. But Havilande Whitcomb Design brings purple unabashedly out into the open to create this incredibly fun, yet serene, seating area that I had the pleasure to photograph for Beinfield Architecture. Between the colors, the animal skin, the reclaimed hemlock wood floor and ceiling, the airiness, and the elegant, modern toddler toy, this nook looks like it was designed just for me to sit and read a gajillion books.
I’ll have to settle for the photograph.
This post is a recurring feature I call ‘Which One?’ where I ask you to help me decide which is the stronger, more compelling image. Usually my ‘Which One?’ helps me determine which image to present to a client. Today it’s just my own interest. (This is also the shot in the opposite direction of the fog in my last post.)
So it’s also the beginning of a potentially new feature here, which I haven’t quite named yet. The concept is simple: it’s my favorite image from a shoot, and I’m certain the client is never going to use it. Basically, if I don’t post it here, no one’s ever going to see it, and it will live, alone and forgotten, in the cobwebs of my memory. If I remember it at all. How sad… This one, in particular will not see the light of day because Architects like blue sky. Period. And I took these same shots 5 hours later with an incredible blue sky, but I’m crazy about these comparatively so I’m not even gonna show you the blue sky.
I love these shots because, for me, they really capture New England in March. And I can see that charm without it being cloyingly sweet.
Which one would you choose? I’d love to hear.
{Update: I was totally wrong. The client chose both of these photos yesterday!}
Here are some previous ‘Which One?’ posts in case you are new here and would like to explore…
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