Min | Day selected as 2009 winner

THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2009

Min | Day selected as 2009 winner:

Min | Day has been selected as one of 6 "New Practices" by the AIA San Francisco. New Practices San Francisco, the West Coast premiere of AIA New York’s annual portfolio competition and exhibition, is a platform for recognizing and promoting new and emerging architecture firms within San Francisco that have undertaken innovative strategies – both in projects and practice. Distinguishing this award from others given to new practices is the attention focused on how the winning firms are uniquely shaped to better facilitate the type of projects that they undertake.

Our work will be exhibited at the Center for Architecture in New York (June 4 - September 19, 2009) and at the Center for Architecture + Design Gallery in San Francisco (November 12, 2009 - January 29, 2010). We will participate in a symposium at the Center in New York on June 5, 2009 and at other events to follow in San Francisco. Visit www.aiasf.org for more information on the program, our fellow winning firms and the jury.

TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009

Okoboji House is Met Home of the Month, May 2009

Min | Day's Okoboji House in West Lake Okoboji, Iowa is the featured Home of the Month in the May, 2009 issue of Metropolitan Home Magazine. Completed in 2008, the house, landscape and all interiors were designed by Min | Day. The interiors include custom furniture designed by M | D and fabricated under our direction along other pieces and finishes selected by the office. See the magazine and visit our Portfolio on this site for additional project images.

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photograph: ©John Reed Forsman/courtesy of METROPOLITAN HOME

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Saratoga Pool wins 2009 AIA Small Project Honor Award

Min | Day's wheelchair-accessible swimming pool addition to the Saratoga House won a national AIA Small Project Honor Award for accessible design. Previously, the project was been included by German publisher daab in their book, POOL DESIGN.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Red Shed Video Lounge wins AIA Central States award

The Red Shed Video Lounge won a citation award in the AIA Central States Region Design Excellence Awards 2008 announced in Kansas City on October 24. From over 240 entries the jury presented 15 awards of which ours is the only one given to a Nebraska architect. The Red Shed Video Lounge is a building designed and built by Min | Day + FACT from a 100-year-old salvaged farm structure. We exhibited the Shed as part of Art Farm @ Sheldon and it is now back at Art Farmawaiting final modification to serve as a mobile video gallery and internet lounge.

Lake Tables completed

The Lake Table is a dining table for the Okoboji House that we designed and had fabricated by Colley Furniture Studio in Omaha. The top is shaped from laminated white oak planks. Polished stainless steel legs thread into nuts embedded in the underside of the table so no joints are visible. We also designed a companion coffee table that is shaped from 16" solid oak planks.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

Slow Food Spirits

The Min | Day designed Sprits pavilion was part of a very successful Slow Food Nation 2008. Held on Labor Day weekend the event attracted over 60,000 people.

2008 AIA Nebraska Design Honor Awards

Min | Day received 2 AIA Nebraska Design Honor Awards at the 2008 convention: one for the House at Lake Okoboji and one for the Lake Cabinet - a detail from Okoboji.

THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2008

Booth Design at Slow Food Nation

Min | Day is a participating architect in this year's Slow Food Nation in San Francisco.

Lake Okoboji House Tour

On July 20th, 2008, the Bemis Center for the Arts is hosting a private tour of the recently completed Okoboji House. They’re calling it ENDLESS SUMMER: Okoboji House Tour With Architect Jeff Day – to find out details, click here. At the tour, we’re also screening Martha Rosler’s How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? (1993), a treat for architecture enthusiasts.

Soft Cube at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

Min | Day recently completed the ‘soft cube’, an architectural installation at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts that functions as a set of devices to soften Gallery 3 and create a flexible and multi-purpose social platform for Endless Summer. The Soft Wall was created with a CNC-milled plywood frame clad in strips of sanded Homasote.

Pool House Published in Touch Wood

Min | Day has been included by German publisher Braun in their latest book, touch wood: The Rediscovery of a Building Material.Best of interior and architecture