Aspera Recycling and The Rosedale Group join forces to keep waste carpet out of Canadian landfill

Aspera Recycling and The Rosedale Group are collaborating to offer waste carpet diversion and recycling services for the independent flooring dealer network in Canada. Aspera is a waste diversion and carpet recycling company offering recycling services to a variety of market segments while Rosedale has long been a logistics provider to the flooring industry.…

February 21, 2012

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Care package

Project work has been completed on Canada’s state-of-the-art St. John’s Rehabilitation Hospital and Ambulatory Care Centre located in northeast Toronto. This undertaking involved the 7,804-square-metre expansion and renovation of an existing “community centre of excellence in rehabilitation” and the construction of a new outpatient services facility: the John C. and Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre for Ambulatory Care. The…

February 14, 2012

Says Larry Beasley, "My vocation has been the design of cities, but my avocation and lifelong passion has been the design of everything else."

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Honouring Larry Beasley

Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) have presented Larry Beasley, former director of planning for the City of Vancouver, distinguished professor of planning at the University of British Columbia and founding principal of the international planning consultancy Beasley and Associates with the prestigious 2012 IDC/IIDA Leadership Award of Excellence. The…

February 10, 2012

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Quadrangle welcomes 5 new leaders

The principals of Quadrangle – Les Klein, Brian Curtner, Sheldon Levitt, Susan Ruptash and Ted Shore – are pleased to announce the addition of five new members to the firm's management team. In its 25th year, Quadrangle adds a new generation of leadership and expands its capabilities. The new internal appointees are: principals Anna…

February 2, 2012

Visitors could bid on a Magis Julian chair at IDS's opening-night party Cherish event, where the iconic children's chair was re-imagined by 20 different designers. The auction benefited the ONEXONE non-profit children's foundation. This chair was re-imagined by BlackBerry/Todd Wood, SVP of Design.

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RADO, Blackberry and OCAD U come together at IDS

Through collaboration between RADO, BlackBerry and the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), third-year Industrial Design students were invited to explore the concepts of time and communication by two future-orientated and iconic brands. Results of a semester-long course, mentored by marketing experts from RADO and designers from BlackBerry, were showcased at the RADO…

January 31, 2012

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HDR’S new Humber River hospital

HDR, as a member of the Plenary Health Care Partnerships team, was selected to design Humber River's new 1.7-million-square-foot hospital in Toronto. The hospital will be the largest acute care hospital in the greater Toronto area and the first in North America to automate all of its operational processes. The project is the result of a partnership between…

January 4, 2012

Speaker: Jay Shuster, Art Director at Pixar.

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Plan to attend the IDC/IIDA Vancouver Leaders Breakfast

The IDC/IIDA Vancouver Leaders Breakfast takes place on Feb. 9, 2012. Launched as a single event in 1989 and expanded into an annual series, the IIDA Leaders Breakfast has become an iconic event for interior design professionals across North America. The event now stretches from coast to coast and crosses borders with stops in…

December 12, 2011

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Diamond Schmitt Architects in Oshawa

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology has just celebrated the opening of the newest addition to its growing campus in Oshawa, Ontario. The Energy Systems and Nuclear Science Research Centre completes the original master plan of eight buildings, six of which are arranged around a campus quad, and all designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects.…

November 30, 2011

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30 years of experience leads to one conclusion: flexibility

Canadian companies came out of the global recession relatively unscathed, but the continued economic uncertainty has reshaped the way companies do business. The best work comes from an adaptable, innovative and intelligent workplace and Mayhew, armed with 30 years of interior design and work space strategy development and extensive partner research, is creating the spaces for…

November 22, 2011

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NSF International certifies Herman Miller task seating to highest certification level for sustainable furniture

Herman Miller is the first company certified by global public health and environmental organization NSF International to the highest level for sustainable furniture - BIFMA level 3. Certification to level demonstrates Herman Miller's Aeron, Celle, Embody, Mirra, and SAYL task seating; Setu multipurpose seating; and Caper stacking seating products all have achieved the highest level…

November 9, 2011