5.21.13 | Minneapolis, MN | Seeyond Architectural Solutions recently installed the first in a series of new ceiling clouds -- a wall-to-ceiling cloud transition at Installation Specialists, Inc., a commercial furniture services firm near Chicago.
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5.15.13 | Cartersville, GA | Shaw Hospitality Group won Best of Show for Flooring and Best of Competition for the Be Bold collection at the 2013 Hospitality and Design Expo and Conference.
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5.17.13 | New York, NY | The School of Visual Arts, MFA Design Criticism program reported that its fourth annual D-Crit Conference, held on May 11, was the biggest yet, with nearly 900 registered attendees and 400 watching online. Videos of all the conference talks are now available.
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5.15.13 | New York, NY | The AIA NY Chapter will host The Design of Change: Architecture Meets Organizational Design, presented by plastarc Founding Principal Melissa Marsh, on Monday, May 20, 6-8pm. This is the seventh session in the series Leading Architecture In A Changing World.
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5.15.13 | Bloomfield, CT | Lesro's Newport seating line is now available on 20-20 GIZA, CAP and Worksheet. It can be found online at 2020.net or on the May update disc.
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5.14.13 | Houston, TX | Egan Visual announced a new relationship with JMC Associates, under which JMC will represent Egan Visual in the contract furniture market in south Texas, serving new and existing Egan dealers, customers, and specifiers.
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5.15.13 | Brussels, Belgium | Global FM, the Global Facilities Management Association, announced the fifth annual World FM Day will take place on Thursday June 27. FM professionals throughout the world are encouraged to organize events on that day to celebrate and promote facilities management.
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5.13.13 | Chicago, IL | Bretford Manufacturing, Inc.® introduced two new polyurethane edges as standard options with its EXPLORE™ line of tables for education, casual and business settings. The new reverse knife and quarter rounded polyurethane edges, which are soft yet durable, resistant to stains and liquids, and offer a refined appearance, are currently available with many EXPLORE tables as well as select carts and desks from Bretford.
5.13.13 | Irvine, CA | KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture + Planning reported that the firm's Retail Studio has completed the design and construction of nearly 20 million square feet of retail in the last 12 months. The firm currently has 8.8 million square feet of retail under construction and nearly 10 million square feet in the design phase. It has also created two unique technology innovations for the retail industry for developers and expanding retailers, the Mobile Design Studio and a proprietary Site Survey App for the iPad.
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5.14.13 | Seattle, WA | Keith Miller, ASID, principal interior designer at Seattle-based Miller Interior Design, accepted the award for "Best Preservation Practice" from Historic Seattle for his work in revitalizing Seattle Vineyard Church. The church is listed as a Designated City of Seattle Landmark under its original name "University Methodist Episcopal Church."
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5.14.13 | Miami Beach, FL | BIG, together with West 8, Fentress, JPA and developers Portman CMC proposes Miami Beach Square as the centerpiece of their 52-acre Convention Center.
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5.13.13 | Los Angeles, CA | Leading commercial carpet manufacturer Bentley Prince Street returned to its original name: Bentley. The company's new logo focuses on its Los Angeles heritage and craftsmanship.
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5.13.13 | Chicago, IL |Raymond Clark, AIA, LEED AP, joined HOK's leadership team in Chicago as senior vice president and management principal. Mr. Clark has 35 years of experience in the architectural and engineering profession, most recently as managing director of Perkins+Will's Chicago office. He began his career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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5.13.13 | New York, NY | DDB Spring Market is this Wednesday, May 15. For a complete listing of the day's events, visit www.ddbuilding.com, and please note the following schedule updates...
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5.11.13 | New York, NY | SpecSimple.com's Save A Sample! celebrated its 14th year May 7 at the Haworth NY showroom. Sponsored by Wilsonart (Gold Sponsor), Formica (Silver Sponsor), KI (Silver Sponsor) and AIA, ASID, IIDA, SMPS and USGBC chapters throughout the country, Save A Sample! ran material recycling drives in seven cities nationwide. This year, 123 design firms in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington D.C, donated 865 boxes of materials and samples to design schools throughout the country.
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5.7.13 | New York, NY | Molteni&C and Dada present “Vivere alla Ponti” [Living Ponti-style]. The event, designed to promote a new collection of furnishings designed by Gio Ponti in the United States, will be staged in two phases: An exhibition at New York’s Istituto Italiano di Cultura May 17 through June 2; and a presentation of the Gio Ponti collection in the Molteni&C Dada Flagship Store on Green Street in Manhattan on Monday, May 20.
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5.10.13 | New York, NY | The Loukin Company, a boutique public relations firm specializing in the design industry, provided a schedule of events planned by its clients May 15-19 in conjunction with ICFF. These include Avenue Road, Carl Hansen & Son, Moroso, Blu Dot, GD Cucine, and Herman Miller.
5.10.13 | New York, NY | As part of the inaugural NYCxDESIGN (May 10-21), Stan Eckstut FAIA, Principal of EE&K a Perkins Eastman company, will lead a tour of Battery Park City on Thursday, May 16. The tour will meet at 11:00 a.m. on the Esplanade, located at the southern end of South Cove Park. It is open and free to the public.
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5.10.13 | New York, NY | IIDA NY and desigNYC, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the lives of New Yorkers through the power of design, present IMPACT NY 2013, the first of a new annual pro bono design competition. Open to interior designers, architects, and allied design industry professionals, as well as design students, IMPACT NY 2013 calls for concepts for a continuing care and drug rehabilitation treatment center located in West Harlem. This approximately 1,200-square-foot outpatient facility, managed by Palladia, is on the second floor in a pre-war building; the organization is seeking a solution that will improve client engagement while also supporting the staff and their work. Deadline for submissions is Friday, May 24.
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5.10.13 | High Point, NC | DARRAN Furniture now offers a Five-Day Quickship Program featuring a selection of quality, built-to-order Hyde Park products. Hyde Park is a contemporary/transitional laminate casegood collection designed for efficiency, functionality and affordability.
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5.9.13 | San Francisco, CA | LiquidSpace, the web and mobile platform that locates on-demand office and meeting space, has raised a follow-on of $1.3 million to the $6 million Series B funding raised earlier this year. The funding comes from two new strategic investors – Steelcase and CBRE Group, Inc.
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5.9.13 | New York, NY | Mary Thorp, Founder of The Harry Bertoia Research Project, will present Harry Bertoia @ the Intersection of Art and Architecture on Wednesday, May 22, at the DORMA Americas Design Center in NYC. This CEU presentation is part of the DORMA/Arenson collaborative exhibit “Bertoia Unbound” May 13-24.
5.9.13 | Lancaster, PA | Armstrong World Industries won two Web Marketing Association 2013 Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) awards: Best Manufacturing Email Message Campaign and Best Manufacturing Social Media Campaign. Both campaigns were elements of the 2nd annual i2r (Idea to Reality) Design Competition, created and executed by teams from Armstrong Commercial Flooring, Armstrong Commercial Ceilings & Wall Systems, and eMarketing.
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5.10.13 | New York, NY | SketchUp Evangelist Aidan Chopra will be in New York May 20 to present "What's Up With SketchUp?" - an evening of discovery sponsored by Haworth.
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