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It’s official!  Genesee Fed, SEI Design Group’s 2011 Canstruction entry is a winner!  We were happy to have some of the team members, sponsors, and guests celebrating with us at the Award Gala Event.  Rochester City School District Principal Kathleen Denaro and Charles Nash from Edison enjoyed the event with the SEI folks. Brad Moreland – team captain, and team members Charles Nash, Kiel Wobser, Kelly Wobser, and Steve Staveski accepted the award for BEST USE OF LABELS.

We want to take this opportunity to say thanks again to our sponsors: Engineered Solutions, M/E Engineering, Watchdog, Campus Construction Management, Walmart, and Genesee Brewing Company for contributing to this event.

The Schuylerville CSD project was recently published in Learning By Design as Outstanding Project 2011.  You can read the project and award info here.  Congrats to all involved!

The Fresh Home Interior Design site is great.  Their blog has many inspirational photos.  Most things are out of our budget (way out), but we can always dream!

Architectural Digest has a great series called Great Design for Under $100.  You might enjoy looking at the current or past entries.  The sparrow hook set looks like a must have since you can get 2 for $20 in assorted colors!

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of the Hyatt Hotel in Malta was held recently. As architect for the project, SEI Design Group worked with General Contractor, Bette and Cring Construction to complete the 81,000 SF, 5-story hotel. The facility includes 120 guest rooms, indoor pool, meeting and conference rooms, fitness room and café.  Insulated concrete forms (ICF’s) and precast concrete plank floor plates, sustainable design features, were incorporated into the construction.  Design started January 2007, construction started fall 2007, and the project was completed August 2008.  As always, you can click to enlarge the photos.

How come Brian doesn’t look happy?  Our clients over at University of Rochester pulled a little prank on Brian and it appears everyone enjoyed it more than he did.  BTW, who are those masked men?

SEI Design Group was one of this year’s recipients of the 2008 AIA New York State Design Awards. SEI received one of 18 Awards of Merit for the Parry Building Office Renovation project in Rochester. SEI was one of 294 entries and will receive the award on Friday, September 26 at the Crowne Plaza in White Plains. In March, SEI was recognized for this project when they received top honor for the 2008 AIA Rochester Design Award.

The Parry Building Office Renovation project involved the first floor conversion of the former Parry manufacturing facility in the historic High Falls District to house SEI’s Rochester-based architectural office.

The four-story brick structure was built in the late 1800s. The interior consisted of heavy timber beams and old wooden columns. Into that setting, SEI integrated an office layout of new glass walls and wood veneers.

The IDEA® (International Design Excellence Awards) program is the premier international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts.  Happy to see that Apple got 5 awards (iMac, iPhone, keyboard, Macbook, Macbook AIr).  Also, several other items that we have written about on the blog won an award including the Zeppelin iPod Speaker Dock, the Curve, and the Flip video camera.

The Life Without Buildings blog has an excellent explanation and photos that give an architectural perspective of Spiderman and the New York TImes Building.  Photoshop sure is amazing.  Enjoy!

You know that SEI is a big-time fan of Foosball and Design, and this gorgeous crystal foosball table by Italian design Teckell is the epitome of both. Hmm…wonder how well the five man scores!