More than 300 design and building professionals -- including architects, engineers, project teams and industry sponsors, along with B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and speaker Patrick Moore -- gathered recently to honour the nominees and winners of the 2010 Wood WORKS! BC Wood Design Awards. The 6th annual awards evening in…
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present the fourth exhibition in the National Design Triennial series in spring 2010. "Why Design Now?" will be on view from May 14, 2010, through Jan. 9, 2011, and will explore the work of designers addressing human and environmental problems across many fields of design from architecture and product design…
Inscape Corporation, a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of innovative workplace solutions, announced its Tisch table-based system has been honored with a Gold ADEX award. ADEX stands for Awards for Design Excellence and is the largest and most prestigious awards program for product design of furniture, fixtures and finishes marketed to the design trade. Design…
From May 18 to October 31, 2010, in the foyer of Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) will be hosting the exhibition "Architecture en vers," which consists of five architectural installations inspired by poetry. These were created by groups of architects and well-known and emerging glass artists. The exhibition is…
Electrolux, one of the world's leading producers of household appliances, has announced the launch of its eighth annual Design Lab competition : The 2nd Space Age . The challenge will seek creative solutions to use space more effectively to help reduce global impact. Electrolux is once again inviting Canadian undergraduate…
Ryerson University President Sheldon Levy has announced the selection of Zeidler Partnership Architects of Toronto in association with Snøhetta of Oslo, Norway and New York City as the co-architects for Ryerson's new Student Learning Centre (SLC). "We are very pleased that these two internationally acclaimed firms have formed a partnership…
The Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women, Christine St-Pierre, the Mayor of Montréal, Gérald Tremblay, and the Mayor of Saint-Laurent and Vice-Chair of the City of Montréal Executive Committee, Alan DeSousa, have announced the winner of the Quebec-wide architectural competition for Saint-Laurent’s new library. Also present at the announcement were Helen Fotopulos,…
The mayor of Montreal, Gérald Tremblay – accompanied by the chairman of the board of the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), Michel Labrecque, and the executive committee member responsible for Culture, Heritage and the Status of Women, Helen Fotopulos – has unveiled the winning concept in the city bus shelter design competition, submitted by…
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…
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…