Diana Lind's new book Brooklyn Modern prominently features JPDA's Boerum Hill House.

JPDA wins three awards from the Association for Retail Environments (ARE, formerly NASFM) for the design of the O2 Concept Store. The Awards are Fixture of the Year, Special Recognition for Green Awareness, and Store Fixture.

Time Out New York reviews Melanie Crean's installation The Luminists which features exhibition design by JPDA. Writer Nuit Banai calls the piece "theoretically fascinating" and describes the "large, sound-wave-shaped lounging pad," where "visitors sit or lie down, enveloped by an acoustic narrative."

The O2 Concept Store opens at London's The O2. The store is an experiential showcase encouraging creative play and exploration by customers in a unique dynamic themed environment.

The O2 Brand Experience opens at London's The O2 on the site of the former Millennium Dome in Greenwich, UK. This collection of three interactive architectural installations welcomes visitors and provides environments for making videos, listening to music, and chilling out.

JPDA is partnering with neighborhood artist Arthur Wood, 75, to save the unique building known as Broken Angel in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. The building-cum-sculpture, located at 4 Downing Street, recently caught fire on October 10th and the Wood is facing imminent eviction by the New York City Department of Buildings.

JPDA is working to develop a strategic master plan to not only bring the building up to code, but to fully realize Mr. Wood’s dream to turn the site into a museum, atelier and vibrant cultural resource for the whole community.

See the full press release here.

Julie Sinclair Eakin's new book Salons and Spas features the Oscar Bond Salon. Eakin writes:

"This sleek, industrial scene is a world apart from the traditional beauty parlor decor of decades past... The aesthetic of the relaxed yet composed reception area announces the material mixture of heavy and bouyant, raw and refined, that is continued throughout" (p.136)

Oscar Bond Salon is a collaboration with Mesh Architectures.

Architectural Record is featuring Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture's design and concept for the American Apparel stores in their retail Building Types Study.

Toronto's second JPDA designed American Apparel Community Store has opened on College Street. Located in a former fabric warehouse, the store features a street-level gallery area and a peep show booth located in the former safe vault.

The December 12-26, 2002 issue of Time Out New York features the JPDA / Melanie Crean collaboration Oculus. Writer Angela Gunn reports:

"Here in the city, kids are sprawling on the floor at Grand Central Terminal to gaze up as ... flocks of doves fly through an opening in the ceiling of the main concourse. Who needs nature – or hallucinogens – when you've got technology?" (p.253)

JPDA worked closely with New York-based projection experts Scharff Wiesberg who provided the installation's unique bleeding-edge Catalyst projection system. Peter Scharff reflects, "this kind of light show wasn't possible a year ago." Gunn comments:

"Oculus... looks less like a video installation than a painting."

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture LLC and Melanie Crean are pleased to announce the opening of Oculus, a site-specific video installation in New York's Grand Central Terminal.

Commissioned by Creative Time, the work is part of the Holiday Lights group show showcasing "cutting edge technology... in a magnificent urban landmark."

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture is profiled in TechTV's new publication Catalog of Tomorrow. The book offers an exciting glimpse at the new trends and technologies that will shape our lives, our society and our planet in the next 15-20 years.

Contributor Gong Szeto features the Remote Lounge in a section on Architecture and Society:

"Remote lounge is a unique example of using new media technologies to create ... a new kind of social space" (p.156)

Jordan Parnass is featured as one of four architects, including Frank Gehry, Diller & Scofidio, and David Rockwell, who are "expanding the human experience beyond static walls and windows, beyond conventional notions of habitation."

Oculus, a Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture LLC and Melanie Crean collaborative art intervention, has been commissioned by Creative Time for installation at Grand Central Terminal in New York CIty.

The piece will use computer controlled projected video to dynamically activate the existing ceiling of the landmark station. Oculus will be on view from November 16th 2002 through the end of the year.

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture LLC is pleased to announce the publication of Remote Lounge in the June 2002 issue of Interior Design Magazine. Writer Linas Alsenas describes the design challenge:

"[the clients] lacked the architectural finesse to turn what might have been a short-lived wire-strewn technophile haven into and artsy hot spot. So they enlisted Jordan Parnass." (p.62)

The March issue of Architectural Record magazine features a profile of Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture, and images from Remote Lounge, Fusebox, and Oscar Bond Salon.

Read the article: "Building Virtual and Actual Spaces"

The website also includes an interview with Jordan Parnass, conducted by Senior Editor Deborah Snoonian:

Read the interview with Jordan Parnass and Deborah Snoonian

Remote Lounge has been featured in dozens of publications, including: ID, TimeOut New York, New Yorker, New York Times, Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Popular Science, Metro, BPM, Paper, Silicon Alley Reporter, Flyer, City, Flatiron, T3, BBC News, Tech TV, Le Matin, Space.com, News.com and many others.

The August issue of Artbyte magazine features a profile and renderings from the Remote Lounge project. Describing the dynamic character of the interactive "telepresence" promoted in the bar's design, Senior Editor Claire Barliant writes:

"New York hasn't seen such a place - catering exclusively to unfettered self-expression and exhibitionism - since the Factory, circa 1963.'"

Silicon Alley Daily reports on the "High Silicon Style" evidenced in Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture's Fusebox, Inc. offices project.

Reporter C. J. Hughes Fusebox writes about COO Rob Thatcher's reaction to JPDA's custom design solution and strategies for the project:

"Thatcher calls this aesthetic standard integral to Fusebox's work philosophy. '[The layout] encourages collaboration,' Thatcher says. 'If you're stuck on something, you can just lean over to your buddy and ask him for help.'"

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture LLC is pleased to announce the publication of Fusebox, Inc in the October 2000 issue of Interiors Magazine. Writer Steve Bodow characterizes the design:

"A scalable architecture: a design scheme that could work across multiple platforms - various floors of various buildings in various cities - for as few as 30 employees or as many as several hundred. Visitors... are met by the design's spare aesthetic and dynamic use of space." (p.72)

Oscar Bond Salon, a collaboration with Mesh Architectures, has won the Retail category in the 22nd Annual Interiors Awards. The project will be featured in the January 2001 issue of Interiors Magazine.

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture LLC is pleased to announce the publication of the PfizerKids Childcare Center, a collaboration with Martin Rich Architects, in the June 2000 issue of Interiors and Sources Magazine.

View an abridged article on the ISDesign website.

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture LLC is pleased to announce the publication of the Oscar Bond Salon, a collaboration with Mesh Architectures, in the April 2000 issue of Interior Design Magazine. Contributing Editor Henry Urbach writes:

"Overall, the salon's funky, post-industrial design sensibility merges clear concepts of spatial planning with an enthusiastic embrace of the enhanced voyeuristic and exhibitionistic interplay made possible by new media." (p.188)

Daily Variety reports on trends in new media office design, focusing on Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture's Fusebox Inc. project. In an article entitled Big Apple Squeezed for Space, reporter Cheryl Farr Leas quotes Jordan Parnass:

"The company you meet on Monday will be different than the one you meet on Friday," says architect Jordan Parnass. So the keys to building space for them are "flexibility, portability, and designs that encourage interaction."