SEI Design Group BlogBlog about news, information, happenings and mojo at SEI Design Group

BlogWorld Expo was incredibly productive.  It was exciting to meet the A list bloggers who are read daily, Guy Kawasaki, and many others.  Three days of intense workshops delivered a great deal of knowledge, and hopefully will bring some new techniques and technology to our blog.  Was fortunate to talk to Tim Ferriss, author of “The 4 Hour Work Week” as you can see below.

Tomorrow is SEI Design Group’s 2nd Anniversary.  It has been a great experience!  In today’s RBJ, our Rochester office was ranked #8 out of the Top 25 Architectural Firms (up from #11 last year).  A few months ago, our Albany office was ranked #8 of the top 25 Capital Region firms. 

Partners Brian Cieslinski, Mike Ebertz, Steve Klempa, Bari Lee, Matt Monaghan, and Vic Tomaselli want to thank our staff for their hard work and dedication, and our clients for their confidence and support. 

The Life Without Buildings blog has an excellent explanation and photos that give an architectural perspective of Spiderman and the New York TImes Building.  Photoshop sure is amazing.  Enjoy!

According to the Rochester Business Journal, a Rochester Institute of Technology task force is exploring the possibility of opening a school of architecture. If it becomes reality, the school could recruit students as early as 2009-2010, officials said. It would be the Rochester area’s first architecture school.

In honor of Steve, we post a video of the Da Vinci Tower in Dubai.  The floors on this 78 floor skyscraper all rotate independently.   With each floor rotating 360 degrees every ninety minutes, your view is always changing.

Six Concepts were developed by the Urban Design Studio at Alfred State College in Partnership with the Rochester Regional Community Design Center to create plans for the revitalization of the historic Susan B. Anthony District in downtown Rochester. This group of students from Alfred included SEI Design Group’s Justin Cross!  Under the direction of Professors Bill Dean and David Carli, they have assembled a variety of design solutions that will be on display at RRCDC. There is an opening reception at RRCDC in the Hungerford Building at 1115 East Main Street Door #4 on the evening of Friday, December 7 from 6 – 8:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

We are big fans of the outdoor chairs that you see  at the end of every Boston Legal episode where Denny (William Shatner) and Alan (James Spader) recap the day.  It seemed like they would be a great addition to the roof deck opening soon at our Rochester Office.  The chairs are the creation of French designer Philippe Starck. Big spenders can get their own Bubble Club Armchairs at Design Within Reach.