Paul Raff’s Biosphere Sustainability Centre

On March 6, at York University’s Schulich School of Business, architect Paul Raff will discuss his ground-breaking, multi-pronged design strategy for the Biosphere Sustainability Centre (BSC), a large-scale mixed-use facility in Gananoque, Ontario. The lecture will take place as part of the GreenEdge Conference at the Schulich School of Business Auditorium in Toronto, at 1…

March 5, 2010

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Blu Dot & Urban Mode & the IDS

Blu Dot and Urban Mode will be partnering to participate in this year’s Interior Design Show in Toronto, Jan. 21-24. Urban Mode has been working with Blu Dot for over 10 years and is the Dot Spot retailer in Toronto. Together they will be furnishing one of five 100-square-foot “Sheds” inspired by the trend of…

January 12, 2010

Designed with modular components and an intelligent rail system, Tisch can be easily reconfigured as workplace needs change and evolve.

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GOOD for Tisch

Inscape's Tisch table-based system has been honored with a GOOD DESIGN award (conferred annually by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies). Tisch is a European-designed table-based system that combines elegant simplicity and exceptional flexibility for desking, benching and conferencing applications. Designed…

January 11, 2010

John Vanderpant's Burrard Street Bridge, Vancouver, date unknown, silver gelatin print.

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Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit gives Olympic visitors a chance to see the province through the eyes of its artists

Visitors from around the world during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will see British Columbia through the eyes of the province’s renowned artists at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Presented from January 23 to April 18, 2010, Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual is among the largest exhibitions of British Columbia’s visual…

January 5, 2010

Jan Kriekels will provide the closing remarks for the Conversations in Design: World without Oil Symposium presented in conjunction with the Interior Design Show.

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Kriekels in closing

Jan Kriekels, art director and director of research and development at Jaga, an award-winning, energy-saving heating system manufacturer, will provide the closing remarks for the Conversations in Design: World without Oil Symposium presented Jan. 21, in conjunction with the Interior Design Show. Kriekels joins a notable list of leading designers and thought leaders from around…

January 4, 2010

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Touchy-feely Roya

The world’s most touchy-feely wallcoverings has landed in North America. Roya Manufacturing has just introduced its new brand, Prime Walls – a line of commercial wallcoverings so alluring in beauty and texture they beg to be touched. With trend-setting designers from all over the world, Prime is set to make its mark with an ever-growing…

December 21, 2009

Joe Pettipas has more than two decades of interior design experience in the corporate, hospitality and retail sectors.

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Not your regular Joe

The Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) will honour long-time ARIDO and IIDA member, Joseph Pettipas, with the prestigious 2009 IIDA Leadership Award of Excellence. The award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the profession of interior design, will be presented at the third annual IIDA Leaders…

December 2, 2009

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ARIDO goes to China

The Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) announces that it will lead a trade mission to Shanghai and Beijing from Dec. 1-10. Ten ARIDO members will participate in the mission to explore business opportunities for their growing interior design firms. The mission was organized in collaboration with the International Council of…

November 30, 2009

The ROM's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind.

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Michael Lee-Chin Crystal Cited as Architectural Marvel

A new Eyewitness Travel book has recognized Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum as one of six buildings to rival Australia's Sydney Opera House. The book, Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives, names the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) Michael Lee- Chin Crystal, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, as one of the world’s architectural marvels and…

November 25, 2009

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Leading Design Firms Join Forces

Long-established Vancouver-based architecture and urban design firm Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects (HBBH) will join forces with long-established multi-disciplinary design firm Cohos Evamy integratedesignT on January 28, 2010, in a merger that will have impact at a national level. The vision behind the amalgamation of these two firms is to build a national,…

November 24, 2009