The Manufacturing Institute will award Reesie Duncan, Shaw Contract Group creative director, with the Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Award. The STEP Awards honour women who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in their careers and represent all levels of the manufacturing industry. Duncan is among the 100 recipients to be recognized…
Herman Miller, Inc. (NASDAQ: MLHR) today announced the following leadership promotions and appointments, effective immediately. Greg Bylsma, previously chief financial officer at Herman Miller, has been named chief operating officer of Herman Miller North America (Work and Learning), following Curt Pullen’s decision to step down from the company. Malisa Bryant, previously VP of North America…
At a press conference held today at the headquarters of ATIS Group, the company's management, together with representatives of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Capital régional et coopératif Desjardins (CRCD) and Fondaction CSN announced that they have acquired the Québec door and window manufacturer. ATIS Group was founded in 2004 with the acquisition of Laflamme…
Based on the increased demand for flexible workspaces that inspire creativity, encourage collaboration and meet the needs of a rapidly changing mobile workforce and entrepreneurial economy, iQ Office Suites is opening its second shared office location - at 250 University Ave. in Toronto's vibrant downtown district. Opening in early February, the new, purpose-built workspace in…
Savona, the Italian city located in the Liguria region, has a new gem of art and culture in the heart of its historic district: the Museo della Ceramica (Ceramics Museum). The eagerly awaited museum has now been completed thanks to the commitment and close collaboration that saw the Fondazione A. De Mari (A. De Mari…
CRIBIS D&B has awarded Scavolini its D&B Rating 1, a status indicating that a company offers the very highest level of economic-financial reliability in B2B business transactions. Assigned to only 6 per cent of Italy’s more than 5-million firms each year, D&B Rating 1 ranks an organization's financial soundness and thus its business reliability at…
The Delta Toronto, the new flagship hotel of the Delta Hotel chain, officially opens today in downtown Toronto. Soaring 160 metres and 46 storeys, the new LEED-certified hotel, designed by Page+Steele/IBI Group Architects, is the largest and tallest freestanding hotel built in the city in the past 20 years. Fronting on Bremner Street between the…
Let's hear it for Toronto's own Stratus Bar & Restaurant, which has won the Society of British and International Design’s (SBID) Award for Best Bar & Restaurant - the first international award for B+H Architects’ interiors group. Located in the Toronto Athletic Club, in the heart of the city's Financial District, Stratus was ready for…
Created in 1995 by the Ville de Montréal, presented for 10 years in a row, then exported internationally, the Commerce Design Montréal Awards are back. The Ville de Montréal’s Bureau du design and Équipe commerce are launching a 20th-anniversary edition, to culminate in May 2015 with an awards ceremony at which prizes will be handed…
The German Interior Architecture Awards 2014 were given out last week, during Cologne's Orgatec trade show. First prize went to Kplus Konzept for its project Open Space, realized in 2013 in the basement of the shopping mall Köln Arcaden with the client Mfi Development. With the prize, which is awarded only every four years, the…