Interiors

The AIANY Interiors Committee is proud to announce its 8th Residential Review, an annual showcasing the best work in residential interior projects by New York City-based architects. Residential projects such as apartments, townhouses, freestanding houses, and interior spaces of residential developments may be submitted for consideration.

Projects selected from the entries will be displayed at Poltrona Frau’s showroom for several weeks in October, with a reception on the evening of Tuesday, September 30 from 6:00–8:00 PM.

Submit by September 12, 2025
Deadline extended: September 19, 2025.

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Recipe for a Room is a model-making contest about building spatial, sculptural, miniature rooms while fostering fun, creativity, and professional mentorship. Two-person teams, each comprised of a student and architect mentor, will design small-scale Places of Food and Culture—rooms for food preparation and enjoyment.

The AIANY Interiors Committee launched Recipe for a Room in 2020 to benefit NYC design students who had lost their summer internship opportunities, and to raise awareness and financial support for the New York City Restaurant Employees Relief Fund. Each following competition cycle has focused on a different prompt, model-building media, and local beneficiary. For the program’s 5-year anniversary, the theme returns to food, acknowledging that we are once again experiencing global instability due to funding cuts for global help organizations and suppression of cultural differences.

Net proceeds from the 2025 program will benefit Rethink Food, a NYC non-profit that bridges the gap between excess food and the communities that need it.

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Join us for a Louis Armstrong “double-header” in Queens: The Louis Armstrong Center and the Louis Armstrong House Museum on February 1, 2025. Sara Caples, AIA, and Everardo Jefferson, AIA, of Caples Jefferson Architects will lead us on a tour of the Louis Armstrong Center, the new state-of-the-art building which preserves and expands the legacy and ideals of America’s first Black popular music icon. The visit will continue with a docent-led tour of the Louis Armstrong House Museum.

The Louis Armstrong Center celebrates Armstrong’s distinctive role in African-Diaspora history and vitality, offering year-round exhibitions, performances, readings, lectures, and screenings through an array of public programs for all ages.

As designed by Caples Jefferson, the Louis Armstrong Center is at the scale of the modest neighborhood that Armstrong loved, while creating an urban precinct for his music that welcomes in all visitors. This new building establishes the final piece of the campus that now comprises the museum as whole; it now includes the home itself that reflects the personal values of Louis Armstrong, the garden that serves as a place for gathering and a place for live performances, and the visitor center, designed as an interpretation of Armstrong’s music, where the public can learn even more about the icon that is Louis Armstrong.

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The AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail Design Institute NY Chapter celebrated exceptional retail experiences ranging from full-line traditional department and specialty apparel stores to restaurants, kiosks, and pop-up shops, highlighting outstanding and innovative retail spaces that encourage new techniques in planning, design, graphics, fixturing, lighting, and visual merchandising.

Winning Projects:
Petco THE HEALTH + WELLNESS CO.:
Cindi Kato-Yokoyama, Arcadis
Rick Niera, Petco

Store of the Year: Tiffany & Co.:
Stacey Bertin, Tiffany
Silvia Schwarzer, Tiffany
Ramon Ocampo, Arcadis
Michael Rostkowski, Arcadis

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The AIANY Interiors Residential Review was created by the Interiors Committee to showcase New York City-based architects who are designing outstanding residential spaces. Projects selected from the entries were displayed in showrooms in SoHo, from October 9–31, 2024. Support was generously provided by SoHo Design District.

The 7th Annual Residential Review featured work submitted by:

Andrew Magnes Architecture
AMMOR Architecture
Bangia Agostinho Architecture
Desai Chia Architecture
IN STUDIO
INC Architecture & Design
Kariouk Architects
Leroy Street Studio
Young Projects

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