February 23, 2024 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT – Principal Architect Ana Batista Borden was chosen to participate in the Shell LiveWIRE Louisiana Accelerator program! It is the 3rd in the country and features a graduation on stage during the 2024 Jazz Fest. Congratulations to our studio leader for this honor and unique opportunity in our region.
February 2024 Our Principal Architect, Ana Borden, visits schools providing presentations and an opportunity to expose and teach your students the treasures we have in our region. Once again she was honored to be able to present “The Architecture of the Main House of Destrèhan Plantation” presentation researched and personally visited to prepare the students ahead of their own personal visit and having an understanding of how the main building was built and the architectural styles that evolved through its history.
November 2023 Principal Architect, Ana Borden, ventured away from the studio to get creative in a different way, creating interactive Thanksgiving Color Wheels thanks to leftover color samples and supplies from the #AMB2Studio with one of the youngest apprentices and her classmates at a local #nola school. Twenty creative turkey designs and amazing custom color palettes were chosen by grateful eight year olds that reminded us of the most precious things to always be thankful for. . . that included their pets, teachers, and even Baby Yoda:)
October 11, 2023 Jefferson Parish Tree School Program – The #AMB2Architecture studio always enjoys learning and bringing additional knowledge to our clients and their projects. Considering trees as infrastructure should be part of any project. Seeing nature perform in conjunction with a built form always inspires the team and #AMB2 finds joy designing respecting nature and the surrounding context. “Shade is not regulated.” Thank you to all of the sponsors and speakers at today’s program @friendsofjeffersonthebeautiful
August 2023 AMB2 Architecture celebrated the firm’s 10th Anniversary. As AMB2 Architecture celebrates its first decade, the studio is proud of the impact our team has made in our community and the lives of those who have flourished and thrived in the spaces we have designed and created. Principal Architect and Owner of AMB2 Architecture, Ana Batista Borden, is incredibly grateful to continue serving clients, in both the public and private sectors, while celebrating this milestone alongside the team of designers, engineers, artisans and construction professionals the firm has collaborated with this past decade. The studio’s portfolio includes commercial projects, working with neighboring cities and parishes, schools and parishes, small local businesses and custom residences as well as consulting for other local architects.
March 2023 Architect Ana Batista Borden visited once again her high school alma mater @mca_cubs for their annual Career Day. It is always an honor to speak to young ladies discerning a career in the field of Architecture. She also realized she has been a registered #louisianaArchitect before they were born! Ana gave insight on the journey towards licensure, her personal journal, shared recently completed projects as well as sneak peaks at ongoing projects on the drafting board. #AMB2Architecture hopes it inspired a young lady to pursue a career in the design and construction industry!
November 2022 AMB2 Architecture’s design of the luxury new construction at 94 Pintail Trace in the Mandeville, Louisiana, in the Sanctuary Subdivision was selected for the Louisiana Parade of Homes as outlined on the Louisiana Northshore Home Builders Association website.
September 22, 2022 Shop Local NOLA featured AMB2 Architecture for American Businesswomen’s Day, “These champions of enterprise are breaking glass ceilings and breaking the mold, and we want to support them!” Thank you Shop Local NOLA for featuring our Principal Architect.
February 2021 Owner and Principal Architect @amb2nola of #AMB2Architecture was asked to share her #Revit experience, thoughts as a design tool and how she implements this design tool in her design studio in the latest edition of the national magazine Professional Remodeler magazine. Her extensive experience using Revit in commercial projects and developments is one reason clients reach out to her firm and why residential project referrals and recommendations point in her direction in the #nola area, using a design tool that she has crossed into an array of design programs, that are traditionally presented in other formats, to help clients make decisions quickly, expedite their timelines and stay on budget.
January 2021 Thank you Women in Residential Construction, Professional Remodeler magazine and Pro Builder Media for interviewing Architect Ana Batista Borden and showcasing some of #AMB2Architecture specialties #historicpreservation #residentialconstruction and #watercolorrenderings in your podcast about women in the residential construction industry
February 2020 – AMB2 Architecture is a LED’s Small and Emerging Business Development (SEBD) Program Certified as well as a LED’s Hudson Initiative – Small Entrepreneurship Program Certified
October 2019 – AMB2 Architecture is a DBE and SBE certified firm in the State of Louisiana.
June 2019 – AMB2 Architecture is included as one of a few SOI Qualified in Architecture and Historic Architecture among the Professionals listed as a Preservation Resource under the Office of Cultural Development, Division of Historic Preservation, for the State of Louisiana.
Spring 2019 – Owner and Principal Architect, Ana Borden, laid out and organized, along with the Board Members of the Old Metairie Garden Club, the first annual Old Metairie Spring Arts Festival along Metairie’s Canal St. Read more about the event via the Advocate and on the Old Metairie Garden Club website.
Winter 2018 – Ana Borden is announced as the newest Board Member for the Old Metairie Garden Club Board of Directors, as Director of Arts Festival
Fall/Winter 2018 – AMB2 Architects is a proud Reveillon Business Partner for the Old Metairie Garden Club Reveillon On the Ridge Event
Fall 2018 – AMB2 Architects is an official Green Sector Professional and included in the directory for Urban Conservancy, Front Yard Initiative and Stay Local (Stay Local Business Directory)
Spring 2018 – AMB2 Architects, LLC has been featured as the Architect firm on the Urban Conservancy’s Resource List
Spring 2018 – Ana Borden was featured on Old Metairie Garden Club
March 21, 2018 – Ana Borden spoke at Career Day at Mount Carmel Academy
Summer 2016 – Ana Borden featured as one of ENR Texas & Louisiana’s 2016 Top 20 under 40
November 30, 2015 – Ana Borden had the privilege to share her experience finding and renovating the perfect home for her family for the New Orleans Living Magazine – Making New Orleans Home Again
September/October 2015 – The firm completed the renovation of a 1918 Old Metairie Californian Bungalow
March 11, 2015 – Ana Borden spoke at Career Day at Mount Carmel Academy. Thank you Mount Carmel Academy Alumnae Association for giving us the opportunity to once again share our experience and hopefully inspire other young women to pursue a career in the design and construction industry.
October 14, 2014 – Ana M Batista Borden, Architect, LLC and Brad Borden sponsored the Big Easy Cocktail Club – BECC event on October 14, 2014. They were proud to present Delivering Hope NOLA , a local non-profit organization delivering gift baskets to families with infants to New Orleans NICU’s. All donations received at the door directly helped support this remarkable group.
September 18, 2014 – Ana Borden was nominated and featured in New Orleans CityBusiness‘s Construction/Engineering OnesToWatch. Those selected were featured in that week’s edition.
July 24, 2014 – Doug MacCash, arts and entertainment writer for NOLA.com and the Times-Picayune newspaper, wrote an article highlighting Ana Borden’s painting of the utility box at the intersection of Robert E. Lee and Paris Boulevard.
July 21, 2014 – WWL interviewed and featured Ana Borden during the segment, Utility Box Art Work in Lakeview.
June 25, 2014 – Doug MacCash, arts and entertainment writer for NOLA.com and the Times-Picayune newspaper, documented architect/painter Ana Borden’s recent work in Lakeview in a documentary video.
June 4, 2014 – The Arts Council of New Orleans and the Department of Public Works, along with approval from neighborhood associations, have commissioned Ana Borden to paint the Utility Box at Robert E. Lee Boulevard & Paris Avenue. The commission was completed project at the end of June.
May 3, 2014 – Ana Borden provided a custom watercolor rendering at this year’s Audubon Zoo’s Zoo To Do, as a Silent Auction item.
March 24, 2014 -Ana Borden presented at the annual Career Day at Mount Carmel Academy.
February 20, 2014 The firm sponsored A-Little-Happy’s Creative Collaborative and provided a giveaway as well as provided a one-point perspective, DIY, creating your own design of a shotgun door.
November 13, 2013 – And Borden offered watercolor rendering discounts for Small Business Saturday.