111 MURRAY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founder and President of Rockwell Group
David Rockwell is the founder and President of Rockwell Group, an award-winning, cross-disciplinary architecture and design practice based in New York City with satellite offices in Madrid and Shanghai. Twice named as one of Fast Company's most innovative design practices, the firm crafts a unique narrative for each project through the intersection of theater and architecture.
Projects include W Hotels; Nobu restaurants and hotels worldwide, NeueHouse, and the Elinor Bunin-Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center, among many others. Rockwell Group also created the Imagination Playground initiative, set design for the 2009 and 2010 annual Academy Awards and set design for On The Twentieth Century, Kinky Boots and Hairspray.
David's numerous honors include the 2008 National Design Award by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum for outstanding achievement in Interior Design, the Presidential Design Award for his renovation of the Grand Central Terminal, inclusion in Architectural Digest's AD 100, and three Tony Award nominations for Best Scenic Design. David is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Job Titles:
- President of Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects
Edmund Hollander is the President of Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects, a firm with offices in New York City and Sag Harbor. The firm employs landscape architects, environmental planners and horticulturists. Ed worked for The Delta Group in Philadelphia and the venerable firm of Clarke and Rapuano in New York City before founding Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects, with his partner Maryanne Connelly in 1991.
Hollander Design projects have been published in The New York Times, Garden Design, Landscape Architecture, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Handbook, and in numerous books on landscapes and gardens.
Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects has received many awards including the 2006 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award in the residential design category as well as the New York Chapter American Society of Landscape Architecture awards in 2003-2009 and in 2011. Most recently the firm has been nominated for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Landscape Architecture.