1.23.08 | New York, NY | Moroso introduces the Quartz chair designed by Belgian designer, Arne Quinze. The chairs are made of solid ash in a natural or ebonized matte finish and can be stacked 6 high. www.morosousa.com
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1.23.08 | Toronto, ON | Teknion Corporation entered into an agreement with its controlling shareholder A-Tean Holdings Limited ("A-Tean") and 2158436 Ontario Limited ("2158436"), an affiliate of A-Tean, pursuant to which 2158436 has agreed to acquire all of the subordinate voting shares (the "Shares") of Teknion not owned by A-Tean and its affiliates for a price of $3.15 cash per Share (the "Transaction").
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1.23.08 | Holland, MI | Trendway announced that its 2007 sales and order volume had a significant increase, with a net sales increase of nearly 14%. Contributing factors include product quality, its on-time or free delivery customer service, and on-going support by its dealers and sales representatives. Adding to its successful year was the introduction of its Intrinsic line of freestanding desks and modular case goods. Trendway also opened a 4,000 sq. ft. showroom in Atlanta, GA, showcasing the full array of product offerings. It also announced that all of its Trendway systems and moveable wall products achieved SCS Indoor Advantage. Topping off the many events of 2007 was the Industrial Facilities Exemption Certificate granted to them to invest nearly $1 million for new equipment.
1.23.08 | New York, NY | The Center for Architecture, 536 La Guardia Place, NYC, celebrates the synthesis of modern urban lifestyle and green design with a new exhibition of the LEED platinum contender, Bank of Amercia Tower at One Bryant Park called Project Showcase: One Bryant Park. Opening day, January 28, will feature a panel discussion from 5;00-6:00 with moderator Carol Willis, founder of the Skyscraper Museum. The discussion, with project associates, will cover the creative and and technical exchange that contributed to the innovative and high performance features of the structure. The exhibition will be on view from January 28-May 3, 2008.
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1.23.08 | Kitchener, ON | Krug announced that the Jordan Recliner, Glider and Patient Bariatric Chair received GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification by GEI. With this certification, Krug's entire seating collection is now certified.
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1.23.08 | New York, NY | A Green Building Discussion Meeting will be held on January 29, 2008 from 6:00-8:00pm at the New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St., NYC. The group meets with guest architects, engineers and environmental consultants to discuss sustainable design and skyscraper urbanism. For more information: http://www.nyas.org/programs/greenSciUpcomingEvents.asp
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1.23.08 | New York, NY | Tomas Alvarez was named principal at Swanke Hayden Connell Architects. He most recently served as a Design Principal at Cannon Design in New York. His projects include the Stonybrook University Hospital, the Sam Nunn Federal Center, and the Merrill Lynch headquarters in Tokyo. Mr. Alvarez is LEED Accredited and a lecturer at Cornell University, Pratt Institute, and the New York Institute of Technology.
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1.23.08 | Muscatine, IA | Leigh Wiand joined Allsteel as Market Manager for the North Central region. Ms. Wiand is located in Madrid, Iowa.
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1.23.08 | Washington, DC | The American Institute of Architects launched Walk the Walk, a campaign to educate, promote and encourage sustainable design among consumers, business owners and architects. It is the goal of the AIA to make all buildings carbon neutral by 2030 and to help the design and construction community reduce the consumption of fossil fuels by 50% in buildings by 2010. To achieve its goals, the AIA offers two environmental toolkits:
- a SustAIAnability 2030 Toolkit highlighting green building issues and samples of effective ordinance language for communities.
http://www.aia.org/toolkit2030/.
- a 50to50 Toolkit offering a set of 50 strategies, tools and techniques for architects in achieving energy reduction and carbon emissions for building design.
http://www.aia.org/fiftytofifty.
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1.23.08 | Washington, DC | The 2008 AIA COTE Top 10 Green Projects Awards deadline was extended to February 14,2008. The awards recognize sustainable design, educate the architectural community on the value of sustainable design for developers and owners while acknowledging the architects for expertise in environmentally responsible solutions. The projects are evaluated on merit rather than in competition with the other submittals. Winning projects will be recognized with an AIA/COTE award certificateand acknowledged in the national press and on the AIA website.www.aiatopten.org
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1.23.08 | New York, NY | New York and Rome-based OPUS Architecture and Design Studio was selected to design the $150 million Cadillac Centre in Detroit composed of two 24-story towers of sculpted metal and glass rising from a 12-story base. Designed by architect Anthony Caradonna, the contemporary steel and glass center, to be located on Campus Martius, begins construction in the fall of 2009. The linked towers will contain 84 apartments or condominiums, a green "living" roof, a 30,000 sq. ft. market, a multi-screen cinema, 800 parking spaces, and more than 100,000 square feet of space designed for a major retailer. The complex will occupy an entire block and connect to the landmarked 1927 Beaux Arts Cadillac Tower.
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1.23.08 | New York, NY | TioxoClean Inc., announced that its TioxoFresh coatings for fabrics and its self-cleaning TioxoClean surface treatments for walls and other rigid surfaces were certified SCS Indoor AdvantageGold, becoming the first water-based, photocatalytic, air purifying surface treatment in the world to receive certification. TioxoFresh, for use on fabrics and textiles, is 99.5% water and 0.5% mineral and contains no enzymes, solvents or perfumes. TioxoClean forms a mineral film that uses light to actively protect nearly all materials from buildup or any organic matter. It creates a self-cleaning and odor-eliminating surface for reduced maintenance.
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1.22.08 | Houston, TX | The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex Chapter of the International Facility Management Association held its annual Black and White Ball to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the IFMA Foundation Scholarship Fund. Nearly 250 facility managers attended the event which raised, during a silent auction, $2500 for Susan G. Komen for the Cure and $2500 in raffle money for the IFMA Foundation Scholarship Fund. Attendees also donated more than 300 toys for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.
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1.22.08 | Chicago, IL | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL, presents a two-day series on February 17 &18 on the current state of architecture and design and its contribution to a world seemingly awash with stuff. February 17th's roundtable includes Aaron Betsky, Director of the Cincinnati Museum of Art; Jeffrey Kipnis, Architecture Curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts; Bruce Mau, Creative Director of Bruce Mau Design; and Art Institute curator Zoe Ryan. On February 18, Mr. Betsky returns for his lecture, "Nothing", in which he shares his belief that architecture must move beyond building to helping the consumer feel at home in a world that seems shapeless and meaningless.
1.22.08 | Kennesaw, GA | Mohawk Group announced that all nine of its commercial manufacturing facilities are ISO 9001:2000 certified to the quality management standards of the International Organization for Standardization. The seven facilities throughout Georgia and North Carolina received certification in January, joining Glasgow, VA, and Landrum, SC, which were previously certified.
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1.22.08 | Holland Landing, ON | Inscape Corporation released the 7900 Series of filing and storage products. The series features laterals, pedestals, towers, credenzas and overhead storage available in 60 colors, 9 height adjustments and 3 standard withs. 7900 Series has been included in 20-20 software
library with an order acceptance date of February 1st, 2008.
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1.22.08 | Palm Springs, CA | The Architecture and Design Council of Palm Springs is hosting a lecture by the Ball-Nogues Studio, Jan. 31 at 6 p.m.Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues are winners of the Young Architects Program competition of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The two will speak at the Annenberg Theater, 101 N. Museum Dr., Palm Springs, CA.Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for general admission.
For more information visit www.psmuseum.org.
1.22.08 | Princeton, NJ | Gehry Partners, LLP, is nearing completion on The Science Library project for Princeton University. Located on the main campus, the library will hold classrooms, house the Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences and Map/GIS print collections and will provide facilities for the New Media Lab, the Educational technology Center and the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering. Design partner is Frank Gehry, Project Designer, Craig Webb and Project Architect, Mok Wai Wan.
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1.22.08 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | :output, an international competition for students in design and architecture calls for entries. Anyone currently studying or who has graduated within the last 12 months in communication design. product design, architecture, interaction design or film at a university or a college is eligible to participate. Any work produced as a student project is eligible for submission and must not be older than one year. Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008. www.inputoutput.de/index
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1.22.08 | Long Island, NY | JRS Architect P.C. won the 2007 Furniture and Furnishings Award in a juried competition sponsored by the AIA Long Island Chapter for its recently completed North Fork Bank branch in Long Beach, NY. The 3,800 sq. ft. branch, which opened in July, 2007, features a southwestern flavor resplendent in bright colors and rich textures, with decorative stone and tile work.
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1.22.08 | Mayville, WI | TAB Products acquired nearly all the assets of Jeter Systems Corporation, a manufacturer of color-coded filing system products headquartered in Akron, OH. The production of Jeter products will be transferred to Wisconsin, resulting in an expanded workforce for Mayville.
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1.22.08 | Akron, OH | M/W International received GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification for its Forecast line of architectural demountable partitions. GREENGUARD Certification ensures that the moveable walls produced by M/W International have been tested and proven to adhere to strict chemical and particle emissions criteria.
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1.22.08 | Zeeland, MI | Herman Miller was named to the list of America's best employers in the 11th annual ranking by FORTUNE magazine and the Great Place to Work Institute. Herman Miller ranked 96th and is one of three Michigan-based companies to appear on the list and the only representative from the office furniture industry. The company also joins Microsoft and S.C. Johnson & Son as one of the "Coolest Corporate Headquarters." Herman Miller was named to the list twice before, in 1998 and 1999. The "100 Best Companies to Work For" report may be found in the publication's February 4 issue, available on newsstands January 28 and at www.fortune.com
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1.22.08 | Grand Rapids, MI | The Council for Interior
Design Accreditation (CIDA) invites community comment on proposed
Professional Standards 2009 prior to final adoption (scheduled for May
2008). To review the proposed
CIDA standards and provide your comments, please visit the CIDA website
at
http://www.accredit-id.org/09_jan_news.html. Comments must be
received in the CIDA office no later than April 15, 2008.
Finalized CIDA standards
are scheduled for adoption in May 2008, with a proposed implementation
date of July 1, 2009.
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1.21.08 | White Plains, NY | Sean Groszkowski and Paul Woodell were named associates in the White Plains office of Leggette, Brashears & Graham, headquartered in Shelton, CT. The firm specializes in ground-water geology and has expertise in contamination and mine dewatering hydrogeology. Mr. Groszkowski's experience includes collection of clean and contaminated soil and ground-water samples, drilling supervision and formation sampling. He has a B.A. in geosciences from Franklin & Marshall College. Mr. Woodell's experience includes ground-water, surface-water and soil sampling, drilling supervision and maintenance of hydrocarbon remediation systems. He holds an M.A. in earth science from the State University of New York.
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1.21.08 | Chicago, IL | Allsteel received a 2007 GOOD DESIGN Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design for its Merge Powerbay Table, part of a collection that makes efficient use of space. The table offers easy access to storage and hook-up and eliminates the presence of tabletop wires.
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1.21.08 | New York, NY | PB named Chuck Kohler Executive Vice President. Previously, Mr Kohler was operations director for PB's Europe/Africa operations. PB also named Judith Cooper Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Cooper will be responsible for a variety of senior-level policy matters and will work closely with the leadership of PB’s International, Americas and Facilities organizations. A PB senior vice president, she is director of the firm's corporate communications group and will continue to oversee corporate communications, media relations and general marketing. Both Mr. Kohler and Ms. Cooper were named to the company's executive committee for strategy and management issues.
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