It's no secret that if design has exploded anywhere, it's London. 100% Design, the annual London-based design show held in Earl's Court, has now blossomed into five interconnected events: 100% Design, 100% Detail, 100% Light, 100% Futures and 100% Materials. This year, for the first time, the show was under the creative tutelage of British…

10 years at HOK HOK celebrated 10 years in Canada (during which it built the country's largest interiors practice) with a panel discussion on how to make Toronto more sustainable, followed by a buffet and cocktail affair at the Carlu, the luxe Art Deco party palace atop College Park. 1--Jean Weiss-Bartelli, team leader, interior design,…

01--HOK MediaCom WWP Category: Workplaces Interior designer: Donald Crichton Design team: Annie Bergeron, Deborah Sperry and Tanya Martin A two-storey bistro area converts into a community hub for staff and a multi-media space for client presentations. 02--Burdifilek Holt Renfrew Designer Collection Floor Category: Retail Spaces Interior designer: Diego Burdi Design team: Jeremy Mendonca A…

Love it or hate it, it's here to stay. We're talking Daniel Libeskind's controversial crystalline entity, a series of huge, angled white facets grafted onto the heretofore sedate Deco Romanesque structure of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum. Depending on one's viewpoint, it is either a crowning achievement for both the renowned international architect and the city,…

On Dec. 26, 2004, I sent my first email to Architects Without Borders (AWB). The tsunami had just taken the lives of more than 225,000 people in 13 countries and left over four million displaced. The coastline of Sri Lanka, home to personal friends and former co-workers, was one of the areas hardest hit. This…

Keilhauer?-?the family-owned contract furniture company?-?recently unveiled two new dioramas in its showroom at the New York Design Center. Created by Canadian artists Annie Thompson and Joanna Notkin, they function similar to store windows, dramatically designed to draw people into the space. "We have a longstanding tradition of tapping artistic talent to create displays in Keilhauer's…

As part of an ongoing effort at measuring and reducing its environmental impact, Maharam has achieved Greenguard and Greenguard Children & Schools certification for over 400 patterns in its collection. Always a trendsetter, New York-based Maharam is currently the only textile company with both certifications. The Greenguard Environmental Institute is a national non-profit organization created…

This past March, architectural lighting design and manufacturing firm Novus launched the first edition of the Novus Awards?-?to mark 30 years of doing business in Quebec and to promote Quebec talent and expertise in architecture and design. The competition was open to both practicing and emerging architecture, industrial design and environmental design professionals. The theme…

FIGURE3 PARTY Figure3, interior designers of the new Umbra flagship store and the British Airways lounge at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, recently debuted its sleek new Yorkville headquarters. WILL ALSOP ART SHOW British architect Will Alsop shook up staid old Toronto with his Ontario College of Art and Design addition, featuring a slab hovering on…