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Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza is Portuguese architect known for sculptural buildings that have been described as “poetic modernism.” When he was awarded the Pritzker Prize, in 1992, Siza’s jury citation described how “his shapes, molded by light, have a deceptive simplicity about them; they are honest.” He first gained recognition in the 1960s with his Leça Swimming Pools and his Boa Nova Tea House, and has been among the field’s most influential practitioners ever since. Among his most respected works are the gravity-defying Portuguese National Pavilion for the 1998 Expo; the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, which was classified as a National Monument in 2012; and the Fundação Iberê Camargo in Brazil, which was a winner of the first- ever Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize in 2014. At the 2012 Venice Biennale, Siza both completed an exhibition pavilion and was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. He is also the recipient of a Royal Institute of British Architects Royal Gold Medal, the Alvar Aalto Medal, International Union of Architects Gold Medal, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.

Leça Swimming Pool, Porto, Portugal

Fundação Iberê Camargo, Alegre, Brazil

Amore Pacific Research & Design Center, South Korea

Gondomar Sports Complex, Porto, Portugal

Adega Mayor Winery, Campo Maior, Portugal

Hillside Chapel, Algarve, Portugal

International Design Museum, Hangzhou, China

Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland

Mimesis Museum, South Korea

Saya Park, South Korea

Portugese Pavillion in Expo'98, Lisbon, Portugal

Kimberly Sheppard and Michael Gabellini

Gabellini Sheppard Associates

Gabellini Sheppard Associates is an architectural and interior design studio that engages the interaction of light, space, and materials to create environments which enable a sense of discovery and spatial harmony. The firm’s international portfolio is directed by a multidisciplinary team working from its studio in New York City. Embracing a wide range of scales and typologies, from commercial master plans, to private and multifamily residences, boutiques, hotels, restaurants, and exhibition facilities, the studio has gained acclaim for its signature aesthetic with projects completed for some of the world’s most iconic brands including Giorgio Armani, Jil Sander, The Edition, The Four Seasons, NBC and Rockefeller Center. Currently, the studio is collaborating on new developments with Bjarke Ingels, and Pritzker Prize laureates Tadao Ando and Álvaro Siza. The firm has been presented with more than 40 national awards and design partners Michael Gabellini and Kimberly Sheppard, both fellows in the AIA, have been honored with the Progressive Architecture Award and Interior Design’s Hall of Fame Award in recognition of their contributions to excellence and innovation in the fields of architecture and interior design.

152 Elizabeth, NYC

Edition, Istanbul

Bar Sixty Five, NYC

Gramercy Condominium, NYC

The Row, NYC

Top of the Rock, NYC

Upper East Side Townhouse, NYC

Yurman, Townhouse, NYC

Sumaida + Khurana

Sumaida + Khurana is a New York–based development firm founded by Saif Sumaida and Amit Khurana. Establishing a new paradigm in global real estate development, the firm’s core objective is developing seminal buildings through an uncompromising dedication to architecture and craft. With this purity of vision in mind, Sumaida + Khurana seeks to develop an elegant and timeless body of work through profoundly improving upon the built environment. The firm and its affiliates are currently in development on upwards of 300,000 square feet of ground-up residential projects in Manhattan, with a total projected sellout of approximately $700 million. Additionally, the firm’s construction management affiliate, Foundations Group, is presently building 15 new development projects in excess of $550 million in construction value. Foundations Group is currently building 1.2 million square feet across its 11 ground-up construction projects and four residential conversions. Sumaida + Khurana and Foundations Group currently employ more than 100 professionals across project management, cost estimating, financial analysis, accounting, administration, and various construction personnel.

LENY

LENY is a New York–based real estate development and investment firm. LENY is currently involved in the development and management of more than half a million square feet of residential and retail space in New York City, including more than 250 residential units totaling more than $1 billion in sales. LENY invests in vibrant urban areas with strong employment sectors and growth potential, from downtown Los Angeles to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Established in 2006, the firm pairs a global perspective with local expertise. Its principals have more than 20 years of real estate experience and have developed millions of square feet across the United States, Europe, and Israel. With backgrounds in architecture, construction, finance, and real estate law, LENY’s leadership brings deep industry knowledge to every project, with its local teams skillfully navigating zoning and building codes to streamline construction in each city. LENY is the inter- national arm of LENY Group, based in Israel.

Noë & Associates

Noë & Associates delivers captivating, multi- disciplinary creative services to international clients in the fields of art and architecture, real estate and hospitality, and fashion and luxury goods. As both a practice and a brand consultancy, it prides itself on conceiving, cultivating, and communicating effective visual identities and highly sophisticated brand strategies that set its clients apart.

The Boundary

The Boundary creates best in class still and animated CGI content. The firm believes that the value in graphic imagery lies not simply in a sense of beauty but how that beauty makes you feel. The Boundary adds value by understanding and harnessing emotional responses which lie at the heart of all human decisions. In the constantly evolving space of digital media and graphic representation, The Boundary is founded on the principle of continued evolution of services maintaining its position at the very forefront of the industry globally, with a particularly strong focus on NY.

Optimist Consulting

Optimist Consulting is a fully integrated public relations and digital marketing collaboration with a talent for creating compelling stories across various channels. By bringing together the top creative minds in luxury real estate, retail, and lifestyle, we are able to offer clients a holistic approach that leverages media relations, targeted events, strategic collaborations and smart social media engagement.

Douglas Elliman Development Marketing

Douglas Elliman Development Marketing, a division of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, offers unmatched expertise in sales, leasing, and marketing for new developments throughout New York City, Long Island, Westchester, New Jersey, Florida, California, Massachusetts, and Texas. The company’s new development hybrid platform matches highly experienced new development experts with skilled brokerage professionals who provide unparalleled expertise and real time market intelligence to its clients. The firm is heralded for its achievements in record-breaking sales throughout each of its regions. Drawing upon decades of experience and market-specific knowledge, Douglas Elliman Development Marketing offers a multidisciplinary approach that includes comprehensive in-house research, planning and design, marketing, and sales. Through a strategic global alliance with Knight Frank Residential, the world’s largest privately-owned property consultancy, the company markets properties to audiences in 58 countries, representing an over $87 billion global new development portfolio.

Spencer Bailey

Spencer Bailey is a writer, editor, journalist, and strategist. He is the editor-at-large of Phaidon and a contributing editor for Town & Country magazine. Previously, he was the editorial director of Surface Media and editor-in-chief of Surface. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Newsweek, and Bloomberg Businessweek, and worked at The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, and Esquire. Bailey wrote and edited the book Tham ma da: The Adventurous Interiors of Paola Navone, which was published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2016. A trustee of the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York, he also serves on the New York honorary committee of L’Ecole jewelry-making school, which is supported by Van Cleef & Arpels, and the advisory board of the nonprofit Parley for the Oceans. He has been on the juries of the CFDA Fashion Awards, the James Beard Restaurant Design Awards, the Rado Star Prize, and the Swarovski Designers of the Future Award. Born and raised in Denver, he is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.