In a ceremony held on November 23rd, the Design Exchange (DX) along with distinguished judges awarded designers, companies and their projects the 2010 DXA Award of Excellence. In an unusual turn of events, two companies from the Interior Commercial and Temporary design categories were announced Gold recipients and the Interior Residential category canceled due to…
Ontario Wood Works! reccently presented the Jury's Prize to Diamond and Schmitt Architects for outstanding use of wood in design at an awards gala in Toronto. The winning project is the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts in the Town of Richmond Hill, Ont. The award is given at the discretion of the jury…
The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) has awarded Montreal's Ruscio Studio with a Maple Leaf Gold Award in the area of Retail Store Design at the annual Canadian Shopping Centre Awards competition - for Ruscio's design of the Underground store in Calgary. The winners were announced on October 6 at an awards ceremony during…
Announcing two seminars at Light Canada, part of IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, held this week at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. Rethinking Light as a Material Thursday, Sept. 23, 10-11 a.m. This presentation will show how the subtleties of light are a part of our everyday lives, and how light does more than simply allow…
On Oct. 23, the Design Exchange (DX) will host its 7th annual Black & White Fundraising Gala. This year's event will honour visionary and world-leading innovator Bruce Mau, chairman and founder of Bruce Mau Design. Special guest Kathleen Bartels, director of the Vancouver Art Gallery, will present the 2010 honouree. The Black & White Gala…
Inger Bartlett, principal and founder of Bartlett & Associates, will be presenting a design lecture at the world-renowned Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto this fall. Roger Martin, dean of Rotman, will host. Martin wrote last year's acclaimed best seller The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage.…
Office for Urbanism, the Toronto-based planning and urban design leader, will join forces with national design firms Cohos Evamy and HBBH on Aug. 27 in a merger aimed at expanding multi-disciplinary thinking beyond buildings to include places and spaces, communities and cities. Recognizing that client needs increasingly extend beyond property lines, this merger will allow…
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that Vancouver designer Omer Arbel is the winner of the $10,000 Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement. This award recognizes exceptional talent and achievement in the field of architectural design. This award is given every two years to an emerging practitioner or a firm demonstrating…
Teknion Corporation has announced that Ron Hughes, VP of Canadian Sales, has been named a Director on the Interior Designers of Canada’s (IDC) new Board of Management. The appointment follows the recent restructure of IDC, which moves from a seven-member organization of provincial associations to an association representing nearly 3,000 individual interior designers from across…
The $23-million renovation and expansion of the Centennial Centre in Huntsville, Ontario, is now complete, just in time for the G8 Summit Centre this weekend. The centre has been dubbed "Canada Summit Centre." Approximately 70,000 square feet of additional space has been added to the centre, which is located on Park…