Designers and Patrons Honored at American Architectural Foundation Gala
“Steve said that he was at the nexus of art and science,” said Peter Bohlin, referring to the late Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and his most famous client. “We are at the nexus of people and places.” Bohlin used the analogy to explain the success of the Apple stores designed by his firm, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, after receiving Architectural Record’s Good Design is Good Business Lifetime Achievement award on Friday night.
He was one of three honorees at the American Architectural Foundation (AAF) Accent on Architecture gala, which packed the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., with a sold out crowd of more than 500. While Bohlin won for his firm’s architecture, powerhouse real-estate developer Gerald Hines accepted Architectural Record’s lifetime achievement award on behalf of his eponymous company’s patronage of architecture. The AAF conferred its own Joseph P. Riley Jr. Award for Leadership in Urban Design on Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett.
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