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Hell Yes, or No | Saint Marks Place Site Tour
June 23, 2022
In all businesses and projects, competing priorities can create decision fatigue that clouds our judgement and impacts the outcomes of our work. How do you decide what really matters to you and your business? And how do you get at your true values? This Roundtable will take place at Saint Marks Place and include a tour of the stunning development.
Spring Place, New York
UAP Foundry Tour
June 17, 2022
We are pleased to invite Brick & Wonder Pro & Council members to a private tour of the UAP | Urban Art Projects (formerly Polich Tallix) Foundry just outside Beacon, NY on Friday June 17th.
UAP Foundry, Rock Tavern, NY 12575
Growth Relationships
June 15, 2022
In this Discussion, we invite Brick & Wonder members to join us for a conversation focused on the value of identifying, pursuing and building growth relationships in order to level up in your work.
Private Zoom Meeting
Catalyzing Success
May 26, 2022
Sometimes we find ourselves needing or benefitting from steaks of success that build one upon the other. Recognizing this pattern, and the need to make our own luck to benefit from it, how do you think about building from one success to the next in your business?
Spring Place, New York
On Time, On Budget
May 19, 2022
In this Discussion, we invite Brick & Wonder members to join our conversation focused on the tools and processes you use to keep projects on time and on budget.
Private Zoom Meeting
Living in the Future
April 28, 2022
Are you following the status quo or are you operating ahead of the curve? Real estate is speculative by nature – nothing that is designed is built immediately, so the work is always looking forward to some future state.
Spring Place, New York
Leveraging Thought Leadership
April 21, 2022
In this Discussion, our conversation will focus on using thought leadership to bring value to your team, clients and industry colleagues, elevating your profile and becoming more visible for the work you do.
Private Zoom Meeting
Cocktails & Canapés
April 20, 2022
We’re thrilled to invite Brick & Wonder Pro and Council Members and select guests to join us for drinks and canapés at Zanotta House in Greenwich Village.
Zanotta House
Grace Farms Design For Freedom Summit
March 31, 2022
Join Sharon Prince, CEO and Founder of Grace Farms Foundation, and Design for Freedom Working Group members for a day-long summit exploring corporate ethical responsibility and the government policies that impact forced labor in the global building materials supply chain.
365 Lukes Wood Rd, New Canaan, CT 06840, USA
Growth Strategies
March 17, 2022
In this Discussion we welcome all Brick & Wonder members to join a conversation focused on strategies they are engaging to level up and grow – personally, professionally and for their businesses.
Private Zoom Meeting
Failed Flooring
March 10, 2022
We invite Brick & Wonder members, their teams, collaborators and colleagues to join this open Workshop on hardwood and engineered wood flooring installation.
Private Zoom Meeting
Intelligent Risk
March 10, 2022
Risk is an essential dimension in business (and life!), but it can be the making or undoing of businesses, ideas, partnerships, projects and teams. How do you manage and take risks in your business?
Spring Place, New York
Brand Stories
February 24, 2022
In this Discussion, our conversation will focus on approaches to ideating, developing and telling your brand stories to extend your reach and cut through the noise.
Private Zoom Meeting
The Essence of Leadership
February 17, 2022
What does leadership mean for you in your business? What leadership mean for you in relation to your work in the built environment industry?
Spring Place, New York
Private Lending for Speculative Development
February 10, 2022
In this Member-led Discussion, our conversation will focus on understanding the landscape of lending products available for small to mid-scale speculative (spec) development projects.
Private Zoom Meeting
Successful Contracts
February 03, 2022
For this workshop, we welcome Jamie Lieberman, Founder of Hashtag-Legal, to guide us through the core components of successfully written contracts, best practices and common pitfalls.
Private Zoom Meeting
Making Better Decisions
January 27, 2022
How do you make decisions? Do you use a values-based decision making framework, or another framework to check your instincts?
Spring Place, New York
The Built Environment: Transformed
January 20, 2022
In this Discussion, our conversation will focus on the changes to the built environment itself – the industry, the world of work, leisure and home life – that have come about due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Private Zoom Meeting
How to Spend ERC Funding
December 08, 2021
Following a discussion thread we ran on the Brick & Wonder forum, we invite Brick & Wonder members to join an informal conversation with fellow members who have received Employee Retention Credit (ERC) funds.
Private Zoom Meeting
Bring Your Presentations to Life
November 18, 2021
Want to raise your shortlist interview hit rate? Feel more confident when you speak in public? Successfully navigate your virtual meetings? In this fun, interactive 90-minute Graceworks workshop, we’ll share a strong foundation for presenting and communicating both in person and online.
Private Zoom Meeting
BassamFellows Design Studio – Private Tour
November 06, 2021
We are pleased to invite Brick & Wonder members, their families and team members to a private tour of the BassamFellows Design Studio in Ridgefield, Connecticut on Saturday November 6th.
BassamFellows HQ, Ridgefield, CT
Sales & Selling
October 28, 2021
Survival and growth in business depend on sales and selling, but, for many, the process is exhausting, emotionally fraught and a distraction from the satisfaction of doing the work we’re required to sell.
2 Park Pl, New York, NY 10007, USA
Creative Feedback
October 14, 2021
Providing creative feedback requires the highest engagement of our social & emotional skills in order to be constructive, fair, supportive, helpful and critical all with the same few choice words. This Workshop will focus on developing your skills and techniques for giving and receiving Creative Feedback.
Private Zoom Meeting
Rooftop Gathering
October 13, 2021
We’re thrilled to invite Brick & Wonder members and select guests to join us for drinks and canapés on the rooftop at 488 Sterling Place in Brooklyn, a new passsive house condominium development from The Brooklyn Home Company.
488 Sterling Place Rooftop
Goal Setting
September 22, 2021
In this Roundtable our co-leaders will dig into your goals for the coming year, show you how to track and measure progress, and help you reverse engineer a path to achieve them.
Private Zoom Meeting
Open Restaurants Volunteer Build Weekend
September 18, 2021
After many weeks of fundraising, research, design and co-ordinating between our volunteer teams, we’ve now raised the funds to go ahead and build outdoor dining structures for Settepani and NBHD!
196 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10026, USA
Helping Your Clients Move
September 17, 2021
For this Workshop, we’re thrilled to have two Brick & Wonder members sharing their combined decades of experience helping clients prepare for and manage moving house as painlessly as possible.
Private Zoom Meeting
Around Manhattan Boat Tour
August 26, 2021
We are pleased to partner with Classic Harbor Line and the AIA to offer Brick & Wonder members a boat tour circumnavigating Manhattan, with architectural commentary from a registered AIA tour guide.
61 Chelsea Piers, New York, NY 10011
Shop Talk
August 13, 2021
SHOP TALK is a monthly event for Brick & Wonder members to gather informally, talk shop, share resources, knowledge and project updates.
Private Zoom Meeting
Rooftop Gathering
July 22, 2021
We’re thrilled to invite Brick & Wonder members and their guests to join us for drinks and canapés at Spring Terrace in Tribeca!
Spring Terrace, Tribeca, NYC
Supercharging Business Creativity
July 15, 2021
In this Roundtable our seasoned co-leaders will help attendees explore the meaning of creativity in business, and the value of applying, nurturing and growing organizational creativity as a tool for innovation, problem solving and growth.
Private Zoom Meeting
The Future of Modular Architecture with David Wallace
July 01, 2021
We are on the cusp of a transformative change in the way we design and build our cities. Join us as we sit down with David Wallace to dig into his fifteen years of research, technical development and design on the subject of Modular Architecture.
2021-07-01 7:00:00 PM
(Re)Building Office Culture
June 24, 2021
After more than a year of remote work, teams are finally now re-emerging to gather in shared offices and workspaces. But what, if anything has changed? And how do we begin to rebuild the team dynamics, collaboration and workplace culture that was taken from us in the pandemic?
Private Zoom Meeting
Shop Talk
June 11, 2021
SHOP TALK is a monthly event for Brick & Wonder members to gather informally, talk shop, share resources, knowledge and project updates. This month our topic focus is on the renovation boom and post-covid supply chain shortages.
Private Zoom Meeting
Virtual Tour: At The Luss House with Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing
June 03, 2021
We’re thrilled to offer Brick & Wonder members and their guests a chance to virtually tour The Gerald Luss House in Ossining, NY on the occasion of the exhibition, At The Luss House, organized by Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing.
Public Zoom Webinar
Getting Teams Vaccinated & Back to Work
May 26, 2021
We invite Brick & Wonder GC’s and any guests to discuss the challenges of getting large teams fully vaccinated and back to work.
Private Zoom Meeting
Expanding Business Ownership
May 20, 2021
In this Roundtable, we’ll discuss the notion of expanding business ownership by extending Profits Interests or Shares (of different kinds) to senior team members.
Private Zoom Meeting
Shop Talk
May 14, 2021
SHOP TALK is a monthly event for Brick & Wonder members to gather informally, talk shop, share resources, knowledge and project updates.
Private Zoom Meeting
Self Limiting Beliefs
May 05, 2021
In our personal lives, and especially in business, where decision making is complex and fraught with risk, breaking out of our established internal models of thinking can be difficult. For this Workshop session we’re excited to invite Brick & Wonder member and business coach, Chris Smith, to get us looking our limiting beliefs in the eye, and then looking past them!
Private Zoom Meeting
Digital Advertising for Small Businesses
April 28, 2021
In this session Digital Advertising expert, Taryn Ramos (Content Project @ Google), will guide you in thinking through how to make a start, set strategy and optimize ad spend, even when working with a limited budget.
Private Zoom Meeting
Financial Times Dream Home Panel Series: The Big Reveal
April 22, 2021
This three-part series will be produced in partnership with the Financial Times.
Featured Panelist: Tom Kundig, Olsun + Kundig Architects
Public Zoom Webinar
Financial Times Dream Home Panel Series: Designing and Building
April 15, 2021
This three-part series will be produced in partnership with the Financial Times.
Featured Panelist: Amin Taha, Groupwork
Public Zoom Webinar
Shop Talk
April 09, 2021
SHOP TALK is a monthly event for Brick & Wonder members to gather informally, talk shop, share resources, knowledge and project updates.
Private Zoom Meeting
Financial Times Dream Home Panel Series: Finding Your Dream Team
April 08, 2021
This three-part series will be produced in partnership with the Financial Times. Featured Panelist: Deborah Berke, Deborah Berke & Partners
Public Zoom Webinar
On Time & On Budget
March 25, 2021
Regardless of the discipline, delivering projects on-time and on-budget is difficult. But there are methods, teams, approaches and collaborators who succeed. What are they doing right? What are others doing wrong?
Private Zoom Meeting
Shop Talk
March 12, 2021
SHOP TALK is a monthly event for Brick & Wonder members to gather informally, talk shop, share resources, knowledge and project updates.
Join if you’d like to: Meet other Brick & Wonder members, near and far; Share project updates or project needs; Share resources, knowledge, connections and more with Brick & Wonder colleagues; Update Brick & Wonder team on the things you’re working on or collaborators you’re looking to engage; Share an opportunity to collaborate, partner or work together with other members.
Private Zoom Meeting
Hiring & Firing
February 25, 2021
This is a roundtable event for Brick & Wonder members.
In this discussion, we’ll hear from our seasoned co-leaders as they share insights gleaned across hiring markets and different geographies, with companies big and small. We’ll reveal some of the common pitfalls with recruitment (and firing), and some of the tools and techniques that can accelerate the processes and improve outcomes. This Roundtable will be co-led by Lonny Rossman, Principal and Founder at API Partners, and John Piombino, Head of Human Resources, Buro Happold USA.
Private Zoom Meeting
Building Science Fight Club
February 04, 2021
In this conversation, we will take Brick & Wonder members and their teams into the details of common mistakes and assumptions in construction and design, while also looking at emerging trends and opportunities for cost-saving and risk mitigation in contemporary building science. Our conversation will be led by Christine Williamson, Founder of Building Science Fight Club.
Private Zoom Webinar
Exponential Growth
January 28, 2021
This is a roundtable event for Brick & Wonder members.
In this discussion, we’ll hear from our seasoned co-leaders as they share how they’ve successfully scaled their businesses, from the decisions and tradeoffs made, to the challenges and setbacks they’ve navigated, and the rewards they’ve realized.
The roundtable will be led by Andrei Dolnikov, Founder & CEO, BINYAN, and Andrew Kotchen, Founding Principal at Workshop APD. The Roundtable will be moderated by Drew Lang, Founder, Brick & Wonder.
Private Zoom Meeting
Food, Design & Influence
January 14, 2021
This discussion will explore the nuanced relationship between society, food and the spaces that make it meaningful. Food and culinary arts have transformed our homes and social gatherings, as well as being a natural catalyst for spatial design and materiality. Culinary tastemakers, who have galvanized followings and activated compelling spaces, will lead the discussion on the important cultural intersection of food and design. Panelists include Dana Cowin, Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine from 1995-2016; Patrick Janelle, lifestyle influencer and founder of Untitled Secret; Amanda Frederickson, Author restaurant owner; and Skyler Stevenson, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Gaggenau North America.