7.17.08 | Irvine, CA | KTGY Group, Inc., received the Pasadena Beautiful Foundation's Redevelopment Award for the design of Whole foods Market. Located on the site of an 80-year-old historic building, the design features a two-story, Whole Foods Market and is supported by three levels of subterranean parking. 

7.15.08 | Grand Rapids, MI | CIDA, the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, announced two new awards to honor Keith Hooks, founder of Hooks Design+Architecture (now A S D) and a CIDA volunteer for over 20 years. A scholarship fund will honor Mr. Hook's commitment to quality interior design education and the Keith Hooks Award of Excellence will be bestowed annually to one outstanding CIDA volunteer.

7.15.08 | Green Bay, WI | Systems Furniture, a Knoll furniture dealer, received a Top Supplier Award based on a review by J.J. Keller and Associates covering quality, service, communication and value added resourcefulness.

7.15.08 | Toronto, ON | Teknion Corporation earned Silver recognition in the annual Aligned Manufacturer of the Year Awards sponsored by  Office Furniture Dealers Alliance. The Aligned Manufacturer of the Year Awards are
 based on an anonymous dealer survey that asks dealers to rate their top four manufacturers in the areas of Training, Product Lines, Service and Support, Sales and Marketing, Management, and Technology. 

7.12.08 | New York, NY | Winfried Brenne and Franz Jaschke, partners in the firm Brenne Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, were presented with the 2008 World Monuments Fund / Knoll Modernism Prize at Knoll New York. They received the Prize for their restoration of the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau, Germany, which was originally designed in 1930 by Hannes Meyer, the second director of the Bauhaus. The WMF / Knoll Modernism Prize was established to recognize architects and designers who rejuvenate Modernist structures. Part of the WMF's Modernism at Risk program, which launched in 2006 with founding sponsorship from Knoll, it is awarded biennially and consists of a $10,000 honorarium, as well as a limited-edition chair made by Knoll. Ms. Brenne and Mr. Jaschke are the first recipients of the Prize.