Congratulations to Volo and the Beinfield Team for their latest Design Award!

We received great news this week! Beinfield Architecture was a recipient of the Connecticut AIA's 2012 Business in Architecture Award. We'd like to thank our client, Volo Aviation, the vector for visionaries, for allowing us to work with them to create this incredible space.

This award is especially close to our hearts because as the AIA explains, it:

demonstrates the power of architecture to shape business performance, to improve peoples' lives and provide a value added service to clients in a business setting that far exceeds the costs of that service.



photos by Michele Scotto Trani



Dubbed "World's Coolest Master Suite" by CTC&G

Bruce and the firm got a mention in this month's Connecticut Cottages & Gardens "Deeds & Don'ts" for an Old Greenwich luxury residence of a few years ago.  The incredible 7,800 square foot, waterfront home is described as having "what has to be the world's coolest master suite, with a private sitting room and deck."

Personally, I'm partial to the outdoor kitchen, dining area and fireplace.  With that view, and the Beinfield design, inside is outside, and outside is in!

It's on the market, listed with Sotheby's in Greenwich, if you want to call it home.

This Year's Norwalk Tree Courtesy of the Grotheers!

This morning, Andrew and I stopped at the Grotheer residence to witness "the chopping of the tree".  The 40 foot pine that used to grace Colin and Nicole's front yard is now this year's City of Norwalk Christmas Tree!  So exciting!  The Daily Norwalk was there doing a shoot and story you can read here.

Colin shot some video on his iPhone you'll have to see of the tree being lifted basically over his house.  A bit scary, but the professionals had it under control the whole time.  Roxy, however, did not seem pleased.

Come join the Beinfield Team at the official tree lighting at 6:30 pm on December 1st at 50 Washington Street in SoNo.  Hope to see you there!

A great article on Bruce from The Hour



photo from The Hour / Matthew Vinci

 Thanks to The Hour for a wonderful article on Bruce Beinfield FAIA, our fearless and talented leader.  Bruce has been a key player with a very measurable role in the dramatic transformation of South Norwalk over the last 25 years.  We are so glad he continues to get recognized for his visionary urban planning, high level of design, and tireless dedication to the community in which he lives and works.

Check out the article, written by John H. Palmer, here.

Beinfield Designs the First Inclusionary Zoning Project in Darien



745 Post Road | Rendering: Beinfield Architecture PC


The project, located at 745 Post Road, and developed by David Genovese and Penny Glassmeyer, will be the first project in Darien to achieve the 2009 Zoning regulations requiring at least a 12% affordable housing component for buildings exceeding 5 housing units.  

According to the October 13th article on The Darien Times front page, the Town of Darien as a whole is at "approximately 2.4% affordable housing stock."  You can check out the full article here.

AIA Connecticut Design Commission honors Beinfield Architecture once again in 2011

We are thrilled to announce Beinfield Architecture's 2011 AIA CT Design Award for their new single family Home in Ridgefield.  This incredible house definitely makes our list of favorite projects and clients.  Congratulations to Andrew Bartolotta AIA, Bruce Beinfield FAIA and the rest of the Project Team for the creativity, hard work, and attention to detail that made this project come to fruition.  Oh, and we had some fun too.



photos by Michele Scotto Trani


This is what the jurors had to say about the project:

This project is based on simple space and volumetric strategies. It provides a simple but effective stage for collections, a stage setting for the content of the building. The traditional heavy post and beam construction makes sense of the chaos of the collection. The New England barn is ideal for a collection such as this, providing form, but observers can see that something else is going on here. There are two important elements on the outside, the first is the translucent glass link, a very effective rhythm maker and the second is the “sideness” of the scheme, wherein the front is relatively impenetrable, but there is open glazing on the backside, making for a very different experience.

Beinfield keeps building around SoNo

There's been tons of action going on over at the 95/7 Parcel in South Norwalk, CT, known as District 95/7 SoNo.  But now that Planning and Zoning has approved the first phase of the project, the ball is really rolling!

Check out this article for more information on the District 95/7 SoNo project.