ARCHITIZER: A+FIRM OF THE YEAR
Recognized as one of the Architizer A+Firms of the Year in 2021.
ArchDaily: 2020 Best Young Practice Award
Recognized by ArchDaily as one of the 2020 Best Young Practices.
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE: 2021 Best of the Year Award
Won the Rising Star for Greater Good Award.
2022 DEZEEN Award: Longlisted
Longlisted as Emerging Design Studio of the Year.
2023 SEGD Global Design Award
Project “pARC” won a Merit Award for the Public Installation category.
2022 NYCxDESIGN HONOREE
Project “Ribbon” was an Honoree for Installation of the Year.
2022 AIA Brooklyn Design Award
Project “pARC” won a Brooklyn Design Award for Site Activation.
2020 Better Cities Film Selection
Our short film of the project “Entangled” in Little Haiti was featured in the Better Cities Film Festival.
2021 RESHAPING ROCHESTER AWARD
Project “Ripple” won the Reshaping Rochester Small Project Award.
SXSW PLACE BY DESIGN HONOREE
The Hangout was an Honoree for the SXSW Place By Design Award.
2019 Architizer A+Award
Solis won the People’s Choice Architizer A+Award.
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE: 2020 Best of the Year HONOREE
Shifting Totems was was an Honoree for the Greater Good Award.
2020 NYCxDESIGN HONOREE
Project “Oscillation” was an Honoree for Installation of the Year.
Core 77 Design Award Honoree
Project “pARC” was an Honoree for the Built Environment Award.
International Design Awards: 2018 Gold Winner
Musical Bench design won gold at the International Design Awards.
2019 Art Director Club Award: Silver Cube Winner
The Hangout won an ADC Silver Cube for Spatial Design.
2018 Architecture Masterprize
The Hangout won the Landscape Architecture / Installations Award.
2018 Architizer A+Award
Signature Ping Pong table design won both people’s choice and the jury’s choice Architizer A+Award.
Core77 Design Award HONOREE
The Hangout was an Honoree for the Core77 Built Environment Award.
2023 A+D Museum: On The Street Award
Project “pARC” won the On the Street Category
Selected Publications
I&S Design Magazine, The Urban Conga breaks down social barriers with playful installation, 2023
Global Design News, Playscape focused on communal connection, 2023
DEZEEN, Emerging Design Studio of the Year Longlist, 2022
Design Milk , “TIDAL explains climate change and sea level rise through play,” 2022
Arch Daily, pARC Installation, 2022
Anabata, A Reactive and Interactive Installation by The Urban Conga, This Time Through “pARC” ,2022
Streetsblog, ‘Playable’ Cities Are the Next Public-Space Frontier, 2021
PHAIDON Publishing, The World’s Best Architecture Practices, 2021
Arch Daily, Best Young Practices, 2020
Polis Magazin, The Urban Conga makes public space a playful experience, 2021
ADF Magazine, A playable public installation”Ripple” in the Rochester, NY, 2021
Design Middle East , ‘The Urban Conga’ showcasing the value of play in New York, 2021
Playable City Lab, The Power of Play, 2019
Citylab , The Play Area Bringing Music and Light to New Orleans's Lower Ninth, 2017