Teknion Corporation and Luum today announced that their new workplace products have been recognized with 2017 Green Good Design Awards, with Teknion's Zones furniture collection and Focus demountable wall system lauded alongside Loom's Starting Point collection. Green Good Design is jointly sponsored by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre…
Coverings, the largest international tile and stone show in North America, is now accepting nominations for 2018 Rock Stars – an emerging leaders program honouring the best and brightest young industry talent. Individuals under the age of 35 and currently employed by or as an architect, designer, distributor, retailer, contractor/installer, fabricator, specifier, trade association, or…
Held alongside the World Architecture Festival, the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors today announced the best interior designs of 2017 across the categories of Bars & Restaurants, Civic, Culture & Transport, Creative Re-use Display, Hotels and Residential. The annual awards, which started yesterday at Arena Berlin, encompass the best interior designs from the past 12…
For the 5th exciting year, IIDEX Woodshop judges have selected emerging and established Canadian designers who have created innovative prototypes and products from a unique material: urban trees that have been brought down by pests, weather and other natural causes. Selected from entries across Canada by a panel of esteemed design and architecture…
The OAA Awards program is changing and will now operate on a two-year cycle, with Design Excellence and career achievement awards celebrated in even-numbered years and a new Challenge program introduced in odd-numbered years.
Details of the new Challenge program will not be announced until next spring, but its goal will be to highlight the distinct…
Celebrating the use of wood in Canadian design, Ontario's Wood Works! Awards announced the winners for 2017. A diverse gamut of projects was celebrated — ranging from small installations to major institutional buildings — at a Toronto ceremony on November 1. Our sister publication, Canadian Architect, takes a look at the full list of winners:
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Two buildings designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects have been recognized for their outstanding use of wood in architecture. Lazaridis Hall at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario received the Interior Wood Design Award from WoodWORKS!, the premier event in Ontario dedicated to wood design and construction. The National Arts Centre rejuvenation in Ottawa received the…
Coverings, the largest international tile and stone show in North America, is now accepting submissions for the 2018 Coverings Installation and Design (CID) Awards. Celebrating achievements in design and installation of tile and stone products in both residential and commercial projects, the CID Awards is open to architects, designers, builders, contractors, distributors, retailers, installers and…
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts invite architects to participate in the competition for the 2018 Governor General’s Medals in Architecture. Awarded every two years, the medals recognize and celebrate outstanding design in recently completed built projects – big or small – by Canadian architects. They are…
Canadian Interiors and Canadian Architect magazines are celebrating their respective awards programs – the 20th Best of Canada Awards and the 50th Awards of Excellence – by hosting an Architecture & Design Party on November 29 in Toronto, titled PARTi.
parti
[pahr-tee, pahr-tee]
noun, Architecture
1. the basic scheme or concept of an architectural design The magazines are inviting the A&D community to join them…