Ringo was selected as a 2014 finalist for the Products + Lighting category in this year's Architizer A+ Awards. Be sure to vote before March 21! 

The PV-Pod makes the cover of ARCHITECT Magazine as the winner of the magazine's Research + Development Award 2012. Jurors Gordon Gill, Jinhee Park, and Martina Decker were impressed by the PV-Pod's practicality and simplicity.  

I.D. Magazine's Annual Design Review is a prestigious competition that recognizes the best in product, furniture, graphic, and environmental design.  Smilebooth Queso earned honorable mention among other product submissions in 2011. 

Metalab received Artist of the Year award for 2011 from the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Some of the projects for which Metalab was recognized this year include the PV Pod, SPACE, Linus in collaboration with Smilebooth, gro-POD, and installation of Jaume Plensa's Tolerance.

Metalab was recognized in AIA Houston's 2009 Design Awards for the Green Development Sales Center at the Mirabeau B. at Hyde Park and Waugh, a green condiminium complex.  This project was another adaptation of SPACE.

Ceiling Cloud was awarded first prize in the "interior" category of the Designing Fabrication Awards for its successful integration of design aesthetics, lighting, environmental performance and fabrication.  Part of the London Design Festival, the awards were organized by the AA|FAB cluster of the Architectural Association School.  

Round Pen, the horse-training arena manufactured as a kit-of-parts and installed at the ranch of Lyle Lovett, was awarded a 2008 Design Award for Architecture by AIA Houston.