3.19.10 | New York, NY | AIA NY issued a Call for Entries for the New Practices New York 2010 design competition. The competition serves as a platform to recognize and promote new, innovative and emerging architecture firms within New York City. Submissions are due May 7, 5:00 pm.
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3.19.10 | Spring Lake, MI and Oslo, Norway | HÅG received the red dot design award: product design for its HÅG Futu task chair. The red dot design award is given for high quality design. Marketed and distributed by izzy+, HÅG's Futu is a task chair that looks impressively simple from the outside, but has all functionality built inside the chair.
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3.18.10 | Marietta, GA | Lees Carpets was honored with numerous INVISTA Antron Carpet Fiber Designed To
Perform Awards. Category awards recognized the following Lees Carpets
products: DesignConnect, Arrival and Departure, Heartland, Rifts, Granite, Buncrana and Wayfinder II and Shirt:
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3.18.10 | Salem, NJ | Mannington Commercial received an Environmental Stewardship Award from the Society of Plastic Engineers. The company was honored for its recycling efforts where large quantities of VCT (vinyl composition tile) are being reclaimed and recycled back into flooring products. Through its VCT n2 VCT program, three premium commercial tile product lines have been introduced with 25% post-consumer content.
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3.16.10 | New York, NY | Leslie G. Moldow, Managing Principal at Perkins Eastman, Oakland, CA, was elected to the AIA College of Fellows. Over her 30 year career, she has focused on senior living and special needs housing communities. She is a regular speaker at national conventions and is past chair of the AIA’s Design for Aging Knowledge Community. The 2010 Fellows will be honored at an investiture ceremony in Miami, FL on June 11 during the AIA National Convention.
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3.14.10 | New York, NY | Francis Cauffman received a 2010 Vista Award for excellence in design and construction teamwork in the category of new construction. The firm was recognized for its design of the Critical Care Building at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre, PA. The CCB has Level II trauma accreditation and LEED Silver certification and houses an emergency department, a helipad, 12 surgical suites, and an intensive care unit.
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3.12.10 | Calhoun, GA | Mannington Commercial announced the finalists in its Tx:Style Design Challenge. The finalists are Athena Abrol, WWCOT; Bethany Burton, Ellerbe Becket; Laurel Harrison, AECOM; Heather Miller, Heather Miller Design; Joanne Titcomb, Spillman Farmer Architects; and Samantha Gotta and Jenny Song, ZGF architects. Each of the finalist teams wins $3,000 and will join Mannington's design development group for a three-day creative session at the end of March.
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3.11.10 | New York, NY | The deadline for M2L's Genuine Design Competition was extended to Monday, March 15. The competition asks participants to create a video in the form of a Public Service Announcement on the topic of genuine design and why furniture designers deserve the right to protect their work against unauthorized copies and counterfeits. M2L will award $8,500 in scholarships to four chosen finalists and honor the winners at an event at M2L's NYC showroom this spring.
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3.11.10 | Chicago, IL | The International
Interior Design
Association announced the winners of two of
the
Association’s interior design competitions. The six winners in 37th Annual
Interior Design Competition are:
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3.9.10 | Norwalk, CT | EMCOR Group, Inc. was named the 2009 World’s Most Admired Company in the Engineering and Construction Industry by FORTUNE magazine. It is the second consecutive year EMCOR has received this recognition. EMCOR received a strong overall score from executives, directors, and analysts based on key attributes in Innovation, People Management, Use of Corporate Assets, Social Responsibility, Quality of Management, Long-Term Investment and Quality of Service.
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3.9.10 | Chicago, IL | Aqua, the world's third tallest building designed by a woman,
was the winner of the Emporis 2009 Skyscraper of the Year
award. Designed by Jeanne Gang, Studio
Gang Architects, the residential and hotel tower was praised for its shape, its technical achievement in relation to the precision of the building's construction, and for its green design innovations.
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