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Cooper-Hewitt awards MOS Architects, Michael Graves, Coen + Partners and more in 2015 National Design Awards
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN - MOS Architects: Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample. Photo: Michael Vahrenwald LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT - Michael Graves: Denver Central Library (Denver, Colorado, 1995). Photo: Courtesy of Michael Graves Architecture & Design DIRECTOR'S AWARD - Jack Lenor Larsen: Haitian Cotton, 1959, cotton. Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund, 1959-98-2. Photo: Matt Flynn, courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum DESIGN MIND - Rosanne Haggerty: The Brook is a LEED Silver supportive housing residence for 190 low-income and formerly homeless adults, with ground-floor retail and community space aimed at revitalizing the surrounding community (Bronx, New York, 2010). Project partner: Alexander Gorlin Architects. Photo: Alexander Gorlin LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - Coen + Partners: Warroad Land Port of Entry, regional sensitivity is achieved through use of materials and forms responding to the vernacular of the northern borderlands (Warroad, Minnesota, 2010). Collaborators: Snow Kreilich Architects and the U.S. General Services Administration. Photo: Paul Crosby CORPORATE & INSTITUTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT - Heath Ceramics: Summer seasonal bud vases in succulent lime, pomelo, mint, and storm (2007). Photo: Jeffery Cross INTERIOR DESIGN - Commune: Renovation and interior design of 1930s modernist-style residence in Silverlake (Los Angeles, California, 2008). Photo: Amy Neunsinger COMMUNICATION DESIGN - Project Projects: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be: 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial, curated by Zoë Ryan; consulting, custom typeface, art direction, identity design, comprehensive communications system, exhibition graphics, catalog and collateral design, website design, for Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (Istanbul, Turkey, 2014). Photo: Courtesy of Project Projects PRODUCT DESIGN - Stephen Burks: M’Afrique, Moroso showroom installation, interior design, and coordination of artists, architects, and designers for Milan Furniture Fair (2009). In collaboration with Patrizia Moroso. Photo: Yuko Torihara FASHION DESIGN - threeASFOUR: Wardrobe created for Björk’s Biophilia album / tour (2011). Photo: Inez and Vinoohd Matadin INTERACTION DESIGN - John Underkoffler: TAMPER, gestural remix tool for cinema, originally commissioned for and exhibited at the University Art Museum, California State University (Long Beach, California, 2008). Subsequently exhibited at the New Frontier venue at the Sundance Film Festival (Park City, Utah, 2009). Video rendering code by Andy Wingo, Blake Tregre, Kwindla Hultman Kramer. Rotoscoping and diagrammatic hands by Ed Baker. Photo: Courtesy of Oblong Industries

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT - Michael Graves: Denver Central Library (Denver, Colorado, 1995). Photo: Courtesy of Michael Graves Architecture & Design
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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT - Michael Graves: Denver Central Library (Denver, Colorado, 1995). Photo: Courtesy of Michael Graves Architecture & Design