AWARDS & COMPETITIONS

2024

  • New York Architecture Design Award, Silver Winner for Interior Design of The Freedman Residence‍

2021

  • BILT Design Awards, Honorable Mention 2021. Project Stellae International Headquarters

2017

  • Short listed for the American Architecture Prize for the Firm of The Year Award, Residential Interiors

2016

  • Featured among the top New York Architects and Designers by New York Magazine, Design Hunting 

2015

  • Featured among the top New York Architects and Designers by New York Magazine, Design Hunting 

2014

  • Featured among the top New York Architects and Designers by New York Magazine, Design Hunting 

2012

  • Iranian-American Society of Architects and Engineers in NY, Appreciation Award

2011

  • Winner, World's Coolest Offices, Inc. Magazine + Architizer  

  • Winning Project: Andrew Davidson & Co. Offices, New York, NY

  • Featured in the Atlas of World Interior Design, by Braun Publishing AG

  • Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, MoMA, New York, NY

  • Nominated to participate in an exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art that addresses environmental and urban crises.

  • Haiti Housing Collaborative Charrette, Center for Architecture, New York, NY

  • I-Beam Design's Pallet House is a finalist in this competition organized by the AIANY's Global Dialogues

  • Committee to design new housing prototypes for Haiti. 

2010

  • Earth Awards Exhibition and Start/IBM Summit for a Sustainable Future, London

  • Invited to exhibit a full-scale Pallet House in Prince Charles’ Royal Gardens

  • Green Grant- The Pallet House was a semi-finalist for a $100,000 grant

2009

  • The Benetton Headquarters Competition, ”A Woven Building”, Tehran, Iran

2007

  • Winner, Future Furniture Competition sponsored by Interior Design Magazine

2004

  • Ball State University-School of Architecture, Faculty & Student Workshop:  Muncie, IN, September, 2004

  • Shelter and Beyond Exhibition: “The Pallet House” for transitional refugee housing at the Boston Architectural Center

2003

  • LEF Foundation Grant to develop and build transitional refugee housing prototypes

2002

  • New York State Council on the Arts Grant in the Architecture, Planning and Design Program, for a refugee housing prototypes

2000

  • 7th Architecture Biennale, Venice Italy, Theme: LESS AESTHETICS, MORE ETHICS

  • Projects featured in catalog and online exhibit include I-Beam Design’s winning entry for Lt. Petrosino Park, NY

  • I-Beam Design with SITE Environmental Design Milano 2001, III Millennium, Project for Piazza Duca

  • D’Aosta Competition Entry, Milan, Italy for a luminous integrated millennium park in front of Milan's main train station.  

  • TKTS2K Ticket Booth, Times Square, New York, NY. Exhibited at The Urban Center, NY

1999

  • Transitional Refugee Housing, Architecture for Humanity (Competition Entry), Kosovo

  • Received “Notable Entry” award for project to design affordable transitional housing for the returning Kosovar refugees

1996

  • Lt. Petrosino Park Design Competition.

  • Received “Winning” project award for the redesign of an existing 7000 square foot hanging garden connecting the park with the surrounding neighborhoods. The project was published in numerous newspapers and magazines including The New York Times and Architecture Magazine and was exhibited at The Storefront for Art and Architecture. N.Y., N.Y.

1995

  • AZIN VALY the Kwangju Biennale                                                   

  • Exhibition of a short experimental video, “The Blind Owl”, by Azin Valy at the first Kwangju  Biennale, curated by Nam June Paik. Kwangju, Korea

1992

  • Il Palarch International Competition

  • Fourth place award in creative use of clay in architecture, Florence, Italy