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Sceners
“Horse Sense,” page 210
creative director: Jonathan Haddad. firm site: Paris. firm size: Three designers. current projects: Residences in Paris and Tel Aviv, Israel; an art gallery in Kronenberg, Netherlands. jamming: Haddad plays jazz guitar and piano. mixing: He also owns a liquor import company in Tel Aviv. sceners.co
Benedetta Tagliabue-EMBT



“The Next Wave,” page 232 ceo, head architect: Benedetta Tagliabue. firm site: Barcelona, Spain; Paris; Shanghai. firm size: 25 architects and designers. current projects: Napoli Centrale metro station in Naples, Italy; ClichyMontfermeil-T4 metro station in Clichy-sousBois, France; Fudan School of Management campus in Shanghai. honors: World Smart City Award; Piranesi Prix de Rome; ARVHA
Prix des Femmes Architectes;
RIBA Stirling Prize. voter: Tagliabue has been a member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury since 2015. teacher: She has been a visiting architecture professor at Harvard and Columbia Universities. mirallestagliabue.com
Leaping Creative
“Flying High,” page 240 founder, design director: Zen Zheng. firm site:
Guangzhou, China. firm size: 35 architects and designers. current projects:
Xiaoxiandun Fresh
Stewed Edible Bird’s Nest flagship in Beijing;
Heytea Yongning Alley in
Xi’an, China; H.E.A.T store in Nanjing, China. honors: Interior Design
Best of Year Award; IDA
Design Awards Bronze Prize. clear head: Zheng’s new hobby is mountain hiking. clear skies: Aerial photography is another of his passions. leapingcreative.com “Playing the Angles,” page 200 partner: Shohei Shigematsu. associate: Jake Forster. firm sites: New York; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Hong Kong. firm size: 240 architects and designers. current projects: Tiffany & Co. Fifth Avenue flagship renovation in New York; AlbrightKnox Art Gallery extension in
Buffalo, New York; Toranomon Hills Station Tower mixeduse development in Tokyo. honors: Territorio Creativo medal, CDMX World Design
Capital; Wired Audi Innovation Award; AIA Honor Award. stateside: Shigematsu has been a visiting critic at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
overseas: Forster earned his bachelor’s and master’s in architecture from the University of Cambridge in the U.K. oma.com
Pophouse
“Coming Around,” page 190 founder, creative director: Jennifer Gilbert. design director: Chrissy Fehan. firm site: Detroit. firm size: 16 designers. current projects: A space for WRKSHP musicianservices company and Pensole Lewis College of Business & Design student housing, both in Detroit. honors: Detroit Design Award. authority: Gilbert was included in Crain’s Detroit 2021 list of the 100 Most Influential Women.



range: Fehan is an industrial, interior, and shoe designer who taught at College for Creative Studies, her alma mater. pophouse.design
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