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Recognition

  • “People Centered Architecture” by Milton Shinberg, Testimonial by Mariela Buendia-Corrochano, March 2025

  • “Workplace Trends with Mariela Buendia-Corrochano”, The Morning Huddle podcast with Chad Prinkey and Stacey Holsinger, November 5, 2024

  • “Real Estate for Law Firms” panel speaker at the Annual Internation Bar Association Conference in Mexico City, September 19, 2024

  • Sterne Kessler Lessons Learned at Law.com Pro MidMarket zoom webinar with The American Lawyer, June 27, 2024

  • “Best of Real Estate Deals : Sterne Kessler post-Covid era with new office space”, Washington Business Journal, April 25        2024

  • “Interior Design : Mariela Buendia-Corrochano” in Home & Design Portfolio 2024 100 Top Designers, page 122. 2024

  • “CREW DC Member Spotlight: Mariela Buendia-Corrochano”, CREW DC LinkedIn, April 19 2024

  • “She built one of the most energy-efficient homes in DC. Here’s how. Lessons from the city’s first ‘net-zero’ accessory dwelling unit”, The Washington Post, March 5, 2024

  • “Why this longtime Gensler design leader is striking out on her own”, Washington Business Journal, January 18, 2024

  • “Case Reopened”, Architecture DC magazine, Winter 2023 

  • AIA DC and District Architecture Center Clifford Chance Stair Model Exhibition 2023  

  • “Art + Soul,” Home & Design Magazine, February 2023  

  • “Best of the Year Awards, 4300 Wilson, Small Commercial Lobby + Amenity Space,” January 2023 

  • “Salud y Productividad”, Obras Magazine, November 2019.

  • “NCIDQ Designer Profile: Mariela Buendia-Corrochano”, Q Connection 3rd Quarter Issue 2019.

  • “From Unconscious to Conscious” at The Back Page by Emily Van Zandt and Katishi Maake, Washington Business Journal May 2019.

  • “Understanding Unconscious Bias – An important Conversation brought to AIA DC by LAIDEA-EAC” blog post on www.laideadc.com, 2019

  • Project: Jones Lang LaSalle Mexico City, “IIDA Announces Winners of the 7th Annual Latin American Design Awards”, Contract Magazine July 25 2019.

  • “Jones Lang LaSalle Mexico City, Mexico”, Competition: “IIDA Best of Latin America”, Contract Magazine September 2019.

  • “TOKS’ Mission: Customers believe Grupo TOKS is much more than a restaurant chain”, Gensler Design Forecast, 2018.

  • Washington Business Journal “On the Move” April 20, 2018 “Alumni Exhibition: Mariela Buendia-Corrochano, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C” at The Catholic University of America, 2017.

  • “Be Original Americas” Mexico Design Week interview on Channel 40 at the Museo Tamayo, 2017.

  • “Latitudes: Gensler Mexico Mariela Buendia-Corrochano” on Mexico Design magazine Edición 43, 2017.

  • “SPARK Innovative Stage Design” at the Real Estate Innovation + Technology Initiative (REIT): Disrupting Real State: Innovation + Technology and the Industry’s Future, March 2016.

  • “Legal Innovation Lab: How will lawyers work in the future?” on Gensler Research Catalog Volume 2, 2017.

  • “Diseñar para vivir, trabajar y divertirse” in Viviendo el Diseño magazine, Edición 12, Memoria Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño, CIDI, 2016.

  • “Gensler 50: Tech through: Facebook, Mexico City, SouthEast Region Top Picks: Fried, Frank and Latin America Top Picks: Proskauer”, Interior Design Magazine, November 2015.

  • USGBC Ad and Video on LEED Accreditation (www.gbci.org/mariela), Architecture Magazine, Interior Design, 2011.

  • “About Gensler: The firm that made the inside offices of Grupo Morgan”, Oficinas del Mundo, 2011.

  • “2011 Facilities Showcase: The George Washington University Charles E. Smith Center”, Athletic Administration, October 2011.

  • “College Rules”, Stadia Magazine, September 2011.

  • Gensler Design for Education, “The George Washington University”, 2010.

  • “Member News”, AIA|DC News, May 2010.

  • “Inside Lerner,” Real Estate Bisnow, January 2009.

  • “Coolest Cribs”, Real Estate Bisnow, August, 2009.

  • “Moving Up”, Real Estate Bisnow, July, 2009.

  • “The George Washington University” Gensler: Education and Colleges 2009.

  • “Talento Peruano en Washington,” CASAS, May 2008.

  • “Gunlocke Opens DC Showroom”, Office in Sight, July 2008.

  • “Legal Business”, Legal Times, May 28, 2007.

  • “2007 Trolley Tour: The Road to Innovation” Capital Connection October 2007.

  • “Office Spots to Meet and Mingle”, Legal Times, November 13 2006.

  • “Dickstein Shapiro”, SmartCeo, October 2006.

  • “Material Evidence,” Washington Business Journal On-Site, Winter 2006-07.

  • “Colorado Marble Satiies Demands of High-End Client,” Stone World, April 2006.

  • ”Interiorismo a Gran Escala,” Vivienda | Decoración El Mercurio, Santiago de Chile, Chile, October 2004.

  • “Smart art glass wine bronze in 2003 IDEA competition,” Glass, Spring 2004.

  • DEA Industrial Design Excellence Awards recipients, Business Week for G Glass Compendium for Skyline Design 2003.

  • “G What a Concept,” Contract, September 2002.

  • Lehman/Smith/Wiseman, L’Arca Edizioni 1998.

  • AmSouth Bancorporation Executive Offices, Designer of the Year, Interiors 1995.

  • Houston Industries Executive Offices, Designer of the Year, Interiors 1995.

  • Textile Collection for F.S. Contract, Designer of the Year, Interiors 1995.

  • Howrey & Simon Washington, DC Offices, Upstarts, Interiors 1992

  • Lehman/Smith/Wiseman, L’Arca Edizioni 1998

  • Darius Antique Rug Display, Darius does it again, Interior Design 1996.

  • Howrey & Simon Washington, DC, Designer of the Year, Interiors 1995.

  • Howrey & Simon Los Angeles, Designer of the Year, Interiors 1995.

  • AmSouth Bancorporation Executive Offices, Designer of the Year, Interiors, 1995.

  • Houston Industries Executive Offices, Designer of the Year, Interiors 1995.

  • Textile Collection for F.S. Contract, Designer of the Year, Interiors, 1995.

  • Howrey & Simon Washington, DC Offices, Upstarts, Interiors, 1992

Awards

While working with industry leading firms, our team has won numerous awards from the International Interior Design Association (IIDA), Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), National Association for Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP), Washington Building Congress (WBC) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

2024- 2026

  • 2026 WBC Craftsmanship Columbia Woodworking Award Winner

  • 2026 WBC Craftsmanship Form Construction Award Winner

  • 2025 Diversity in Business Award, Washington Business Journal      

  • Sterne Kessler, Best Office Design at Best of Real Estate Deals 2024, Washington Business Journal 2024

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2020- 2023 *

  • The Future of Workplace (GRIA) 2023 

  • 4300 Wilson Repositioning

    • Interior Design Small Commercial Lobby & Amenity Space, Best of the Year 2022 

    • IIDA Mid-Atlantic, Corporate, 2022.

    • Washington Building Congress Craftsmanship, Award for Millwork, 2022.

    • NAIOP Award of Excellence Capital Improvement Non-Institutional Building, 2021.​

  • EIG

    • IES Candela Award for the Interior Design Lighting Award, 2022.

    • SARA (The Society of American Registered Architects) Professional Design Awards, 2021.

    • NAIOP DC, Award of Excellence, Best Interiors, 2021.

    • ABC Excellence in Construction Award, 2020.

2010 - 2019 *

  • Jones Lang LaSalle Mexico City, Mexico Corporate Space – “Small IIDA Best of Latin America”, 2019.

  • Foro de Marcas Renombradas Españolas, “Amiga de Marcas Españolas”, October 24, 2016.

  • NAIOP VA, Focus on Excellence Award, Confidential Communications Agency | AIA Northern Virginia, 2014.

  • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP GDEA, “People’s Choice Award”, 2012.

  • IIDA Mid-Atlantic, “Gold Award”, 2012.

  • IIDA Mid-Atlantic, “Pinnacle Award”, 2012.

  • “GDEA Honorable Mention”, 2012.

  • The George Washington University Charles E. Smith Center AIA DC Award of Merit in Architecture, 2012.

  • Simpson Thacher IDA Mid Atlantic Chapter, Gold Award for Commercial Interiors Between 20,000 and 100,000, 2011.

  • Interiors Between 20,000 and 100,000 Cassidy & Pinkard Colliers Inform Awards, Award of Merit, 2010.

2003 - 2009 *

  • IIDA Mid Atlantic Chapter, Pinnacle Award, 2009.

  • IIDA Mid Atlantic Chapter, Gold Award for Commercial Interiors Between 20,000 and 100,000, 2009.

  • ​Mayer Brown LLP DOC Award for Outstanding Design, Honorable Mention, 2009.

  • Lerner Enterprises Washington Building Congress Craftmanship Awards Woods & Plastics, 2009.

  • Dewey & LeBoeuf Washington Building Congress Craftsmanship Awards Woods & Plastics, 2008.

  • Thelen LLP 2007 IIDA Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Gold Award for Commercial Interiors Between 20,000 and 100,000, 2445 M Street Washington Building Congress Craftmanship Awards Steel Construction for Canopy Design, 2007.

  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Antron Design Awards, Large Office Category, 2005.

  • GDEA Honorable Mention 2004

  • Industrial Designers Society of America, 2004.

  • IDEA Industrial Design Excellence Award, G Glass Compendium for Skyline Design, 2003.

1991 - 1998 **

  • Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, 1998. IIDA, Award for Best Designed Space over 5,000, 1998.

  • Howrey & Simon, Washington, DC IIDA, Award for Best Designed Space over 5,000, 1997.

  • American Institute of Architects, Henry Adams School Medal, 1991.

  • The Catholic University of America, Friends of Architecture Prize, 1991.

  • An Interpretive Center for Macchu Picchu, Thesis Project Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society in Architecture and The Allied Arts, 1991.

  • Organization of American States, Rosa McLean de Vinas Scholarship, 1991.

*Clients as Design Director while at Gensler
**Clients as Project Designer while at LSM

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