Architecture, Business & Design

Ed Shim is a principal at HLW and the managing director in the NYC office. Shim knew he wanted to go into Architecture when he was young. Having had the opportunity to take architecture class in High school strengthen his will to move into the field as an architect and study architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Soon after his educational career ended, Ed, came back to NYC in search for work. Fortunately, he was able to find work as soon as he came back. Years after working up his experience in architecture, he joined HLW around 2005 which then allowed him to become the director manager of the NY office.

John Mack first started as someone who wanted to do architecture. He studied architecture, got his license as an architect but began to work as an interior designer. He had started in an office job and knew he wanted to work in any design. When he landed his first project, after a week he realized that he had gone into an interior design project which invited everything he wanted to do.

CetraRuddy is an amazing architecture and interior design firm that was founded in New York City. As they celebrate their 30 years of amazing award-winning work, we were able to host an amazing interview with their director of strategy, Emmanuelle Slossberg. She gives us an insight the firms way of work and how everything is taken into consideration.

From acting to interior design. Phoebe is an interior designer who started her company in 2006 and has over 15 years of experience. She has recently done a Ted Talk about the deeper meaning of Interior design, so we go in touch with her and asked her more about it. We learned a lot about Feng shui from our previous guest, Marie and wanted to learn about other interior designer's philosophy. Oldrey uses holistic interior design, "work brilliantly and feel fantastic". At first, we assumed it would be the same as Feng Shui, but it wasn't. Although they were similar, we loved how different they could be.

When he first started in his career he met someone from craigslist who, along with his wife, motivated him to become a Registered Architect. Neil Myers has recently become the Senior Architect at J Frankl Associates. His most recent projects were The Freehand Hotel New York & The Avora Condominiums in Weehawken, NJ as IBI's group principal. He has always loved desgining and developing and that help him grow as an architect who know what he wants.