Brooklyn-based Almost Studio provides a new interpretation of mobility with their winning competition proposal 'That's a Wrap'

Co-founders Dorian Booth and Anthony Gagliardi established Almost Studio in 2018. Along with junior designer Isabella Calidonio Stechmann, the team considers a successful project "as never complete and always becoming: exposing unknown cultural, social, and spatial potential as time passes." With this design methodology, the team has become well known for projects such as "Playground for a Fashion Designer," RADICAL, House for a Sojourner, and Tent in a Vegetable Garden. The design studio entered the Ragdale Foundation's annual competition, the Ragdale Ring competition, and selected as winners for their design "That's a Wrap."  Original 1912 Ragdale Ring by Architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. Image courtesy of Ragdale FoundationThe Ragdale Foundation is a national artist residency program located in Lake Forest, Illinois. In 2013, the Foundation launched a competition to "reinterpret the Ragdale Ring" designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1912. Shaw's ring design helped spring...