The Photographer’s Loft is now on ArchDaily & Designboom.
Follow the design for Quartz Media on Medium
Zach Seward, executive editor at Quartz Media, is documenting our design process for their new 25,000 SF office via The Office on Medium. He writes, "In this diary, the question is: How do you capture a company’s culture in a physical space? Help us figure it out." Lessons learned are being shared to help other startups.
Quartz Media's new home at 675 6th Avenue
LM Guest House featured on Dezeen
The LM Guest House was featured on Dezeen and received a great response from viewers.
Two Best of the Year Awards from Interior Design Magazine
The Betaworks office and the Photographer’s Loft each received a Best of Year Award from Interior Design Magazine.
Betaworks
Arup
The Photographer's Loft receives an American Architecture Award
The Photographer's Loft was selected as one of the best American architecture projects in 2015. This is Desai Chia's 4th American Architecture Award. Awarded projects will be exhibited at the 3rd Chicago Architecture Biennial and then to other museums in Europe.
MakeItWork Awards go to the Betaworks and Arup Offices
The Betaworks and Arup Offices both received MakeItWork Honoree Awards at the annual MakeItWork Tech + Design Conference in San Francisco.
The reception area in the Arup Office in Edison, NJ
SARA NY Silver Honor Awards goes to the Photographer's Loft
The NY Society of Registered Architects bestowed the Silver Honor Award on the Photographer's Loft project at their annual awards dinner.
AIA NY Honor Award announced for the Photographer's Loft
The Photographer's Loft received an AIA NY Design Honor Award at the annual Design Awards Luncheon at Cipriani Wall Street. The project will be on display at the Center for Architecture NYC from April 24 - June 22, 2015.
LM Guest House receives a BSA Housing Award
The Boston Society of Architects bestowed a Housing Design Award on the LM Guest House at the Design Awards Gala in Boston.
LM Guest House Featured on Archello
Luminous Depths receives a CODA Award
Desai Chia Architecture & artist Lee Mingwei received a CODA Award for "Luminous Depths," a participatory art installation at the Peranakan Museum in Singapore.
New Offices for Betaworks and Startapp
NYRP Edge/ucation Exhibition opens
Come to the opening of the NYRP Edge/ucation exhibition at the Center for Architecture NYC. The display includes Desai Chia's FloodLAB design, one of 4 finalists.
FloodLAB
Best of Year Award presented to Desai Chia for the LM Guest House
The LM Guest House received a Best of Year Award in the residential category. Cindy Allen, the Editor-in-Chief of Interior Design, announced all of the award winners at a gala event at the IAC Building in New York.
Katherine Chia to speak at MOCA with Anita Lo and Mary Ping
Katherine Chia will join chef Anita Lo and fashion designer Mary Ping for a panel discussion on creativity in food, fashion and design at the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas on October 26, 2013, from 2-4pm.
Desai Chia shortlisted for NYRP Competition
The New York Restoration Project, led by Bette Midler, has shortlisted Desai Chia's FloodLAB entry for the final round of the Edge/ucation Pavilion and Boathouse competition.
FloodLAB
The Dek House project to be exhibited at the Center for Architecture NYC
Surface Innovation: Redefining Boundaries of Interior & Exterior Spaces is a multi-media exhibit presenting new concepts for Dekton by Desai Chia and 5 other New York architecture firms. Sponsored by the AIA and Cosentino.
Dek House by Desai Chia Architecture
Katherine Chia presents the LM Guest House at the World Architecture Festival
The LM Guest House was an awards finalist at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. Katherine Chia presented the project to an international jury during the 3-day event.
Katherine Chia joins Cindy Allen for the OHNY Panel
Interior Design Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen hosted a panel discussion with Katherine Chia & 5 other designers to discuss their work at the "What's New What's Next" showcase for OpenHouseNewYork.
LM Guest House Exhibited at the Buenos Aires Biennial
This year's Buenos Aires Design Biennial features works by AIA award-winning architects including Desai Chia's LM Guest House.
