"We are very excited about the opportunity to be working together with Centura," says Dennis Darragh, general manager for Forbo Flooring Systems in North America. "This partnership allows us to offer even more of Forbo's flooring products in the Canadian market. Centura is a very well-respected company in the flooring market, which owes its success to its outstanding customer service and quality product offering"

Forbo Flooring Systems enters distribution agreement with Centura Tile

Forbo and Centura are proud to announce they have signed a distribution agreement on certain commercial vinyl lines - lines that Forbo currently does not carry in the Canadian market. Forbo Flooring Canada Corp, part of the Swiss Forbo Group, will continue to directly market and distribute their core focus products, such as their flagship…

June 22, 2015

Student of the Year is Andrew Brassington from Ontario. His course work included a monumental door made from locally sourced Scottish timber - inspired by a silver birch sapling that he saw growing through the ruins of a collapsing barn in southern Ontario

Products

Canadian students at the Chippendale International School of Furniture win top woodworking awards

Two young Canadian woodworking students at the Chippendale International School of Furniture have won prestigious awards – with one of the student’s pieces being exhibited at the Scottish parliament. Student of the Year is Andrew Brassington from Ontario. His course work included a monumental door made from locally sourced Scottish timber - inspired by a…

June 22, 2015

News

RAIC Fellow, well met: Stantec’s Noel Best

Vancouver-based architect Noel Best was inducted as Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute Canada (RAIC) at the Festival of Architecture in Calgary on June 4. The College of Fellows of the RAIC bestows Fellowship in recognition of outstanding achievement. Criteria include design excellence, exceptional scholarly contribution or distinguished service to the profession or the community.…

June 15, 2015

News

BMO celebrates 40-year anniversary of First Canadian Place branch in Toronto

BMO Bank of Montreal celebrated the 40th anniversary and the newly renovated First Canadian Place flagship branch located at the corner of King and Bay Street in Toronto yesterday. EXTENSIVE BRANCH RENOVATIONS The renovation of the First Canadian Place branch included a 16-month, five-phase construction schedule that began July 2013 and…

June 12, 2015

Offices of Perkins+Will in San Francisco. Photo courtesy Perkins+Will / Mariko Reed

Products

DIRTT Environmental Solutions’ Enzo system wins the CaGBC 2015 Green Building Product of the Year

The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) is pleased to announce that DIRTT Environmental Solutions has been named the inaugural winner of the CaGBC Green Building Product of the Year Award for its interior wall system called Enzo. The company was on hand at the Building Lasting Change 2015 Gala Dinner (held last week) to receive…

June 11, 2015

News

IDC, APDIQ and CIDQ announce French language NCIDQ exam

Interior Designers of Canada (IDC), the Association Professionelle des designers d’intérieur du Quebec (APDIQ) and the Council for Interior Design Qualification (CIDQ), have created a jointly funded French language NCIDQ Examination. All three sections of the exam have been translated to ensure that anyone in Canada will have the opportunity to write the exam in either of the country’s two…

June 9, 2015

Hague Inbound, Crepe Myrtle, Spring buds. Photo by Alex Fradkin

News

ART TO GO Installations in El Paso, Texas’s transit shelters allow riders to reconnect with nature

"Leaves of Wind" is a series of public art installations incorporated into the 20 transit shelters on the first line of new Brio Rapid Transit System in El Paso, Texas: the Mesa corridor. This route serves an area that has been paved over and built up, rendering nature invisible amidst signs for fast-food restaurants, gas stations…

June 9, 2015

Products

4 – count ’em 4 – Teknion workplace products earn 2015 Green Good Design Awards

Teknion Corporation announced today that four of its new workplace products – Journal Casegoods, Livello Counterbalance Height-Adjustable Worktable, Thesis Learning and Library tables, and Variable Multi-Purpose Seating – earned 2015 Green Good Design Awards. The Green Good Design competition is sponsored by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, and the Chicago…

June 8, 2015

LGA preserved the original Kitchener Main Branch Public Library like a ship in a bottle by wrapping the mid-century-modern structure with a high-efficiency curtain wall with operable windows. Photo by Ben Rahn/A-Frame

News

LGA Architectural Partners wins major award for its redesign of the Kitchener Main Branch Public Library

Toronto-based LGA Architectural Partners has won the OLA Library Building Award, in the Library Architectural and Design Transformation category, for its expansion and renovation of the Kitchener Main Branch Public Library. With this award, the OLA - the oldest and largest library association in Canada - honours excellence in additions, renovations, restorations, conversions to library…

June 4, 2015

News

Sub-Zero and Wolf 2013-2014 Kitchen Design contest winners announced

In a showroom transformed into a whimsical and vibrant stage inspired by Roy Lichtenstein and Pop Art culture, awards were handed out to the winners of the Sub-Zero and Wolf 2013-2014 Kitchen Design Contest on Friday. Over 100 attendees applauded the contest winners chosen from applicants from Eastern Canada. First place was awarded to two…

June 1, 2015