Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
On September 21, 2016, IIDA’s Northern California Chapter honored IA Founder and CEO David Mourning, AIA, FIIDA with its Leadership of Excellence Award. The award recognizes an IIDA member for exemplary leadership within the profession of Interior Design and was presented at the chapter’s annual Leaders Breakfast at the San Francisco Four Season’s Hotel. Previous winners include Stanford Hughes, Laura Guido-Clark, and M. Arthur Gensler.
On September 8, Kylie Roth, Knoll’s Senior Director of Workplace Research, spoke to the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Houston Chapter. Delivering a talk on workplace trends based on generational shifts and employee well-being, Roth discussed the evolution of the modern office, using statistical findings to illustrate demographic changes.
Interior designer Gary Wheeler is to join New York’s HDR—a multifaceted company providing engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. Known for tactical approaches to workplace design, backed by research and strategic solutions, the former president of the American Society of Interior Designers will now act as the company’s global director in interior design and workplace strategy. Working with the architectural design and engineering groups, the practice hopes to expands its role with clients from the healthcare, science, education, corporate, and civic markets, according to HDR’s press release.
As IIDA reports, the different generations agreed on a number of points, among them that “face-to-face discussion was integral to the design process.”
The 2015 Annual Report serves as a retrospective, but it also illustrates how IIDA continues to be nimble, fiscally healthy, and, with your enthusiasm and dedication, committed to creating a strong interior design community.
Since 2005, I’ve been an IIDA member, and the association has provided me with many opportunities to engage with other design professionals and share the benefits of commercial design with the general public, as well as students at colleges and universities who are just starting out in this profession.
In advance of his planned exit as CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) at the end of this year, Rick Fedrizzi, Hon. AIA, will become the CEO and chairman of the International Well Building Institute (IWBI), the IWBI announced today. The IWBI administers the Well Building Standard, which monitors a building’s performance based on its impact on the health and well-being of its occupants. Fedrizzi announced his departure from the USGBC last summer. He will step into the role of IWBI chairman immediately and assume the position of CEO effective Nov. 4, 2016, coming on board full time in early 2017 after fulfilling his commitment to the USGBC.
In the last ten years, millions of millennials have entered the traditional workspace of musty cube walls and burnt coffee. Many of these employees have been quick to realize they hit a quarter-life crisis, where they question and doubt the decisions they made that brought them to that point in their adult life.
Perkins+Will have completed the design of the new headquarters for the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Intended to be a living laboratory and establish a model for the “office of the future,” the new ASID headquarters embodies innovative workplace environments where wellness, sustainability, collaboration, flexibility and new technologies were key drivers shaping the design.
The 27th Annual IIDA Calibre Awards were held on Friday, May 13th, 2016. Tangram Interiors was involved in 16 of the projects nominated including: Brookfield Residential, Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center, Cal State Northridge META Lab, DirecTV, Harbor Distributing, JustFab Inc., Kennedy Wilson, and True Religion.
In partnership with Hospitality Design magazine, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) announced the winners of the 20th Annual IIDA/HD Product Design Competition at HD Expo 2016 on May 4. Belle by Fire Farm Lighting received the Eric Engstrom Best of Competition Award, and also took home an additional award in the Lighting: Individual Lamps/ Lighting Devices category.
Each year, the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) awards the title of Fellow to individuals who demonstrate outstanding service and contributions to the Society, the profession, and the interior design industry. It is the highest distinction a member can receive from ASID, bestowed on less than one percent of ASID membership.
The International Interior Design Association and the American Library Association announced the winners of the 2016 Library Interior Design Awards. These biennial awards recognize achievement in library interior design aesthetics, creativity, and function.
The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) proudly announces Marlene M. Liriano, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C, as the 2016-2017 President of the IIDA International Board of Directors.
On a recent trip to San Francisco, I had the privilege of connecting with a range of leaders in green building who are making a measurable difference. They shared a recognition that they were very fortunate to live in California, where the statewide GDP makes it the eighth largest economy in the world. It is an economy supported by a strong consensus that environmental progress is fully consistent with strong economic performance and growth.
While the debate over the fate of FM bodies; from the role of the BIFM to the demise of its trade associations the Facilities Management Association, (FMA) and its successor the Building Futures Group (BFG), rolls on; the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) have gone ahead and organized their own “landmark” collaboration agreement. This aims to leverage both organizations’ existing resources in education, research, conferences and events, and external relations. IFMA and RICS also vow to work together to align credentials and qualifications to shape a single FM career path with “demonstrable professional status which is recognized and respected globally”. Another shot across the bow of the BIFM is that RICS professionals who have qualified in FM will automatically receive IFMA member benefits. In turn, IFMA members and credential holders will be able to attain RICS professional qualification and benefit from RICS’ international standards and global professional network.
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is dismayed with the North Carolina legislature and governor’s recent actions to enact discriminatory legislation (HB 2) that overturns protections for LGBT people and sanctions discrimination across the state. As an organization that represents more than 26,000 interior design professionals, manufacturers, and industry representatives, ASID believes that laws such as HB 2 are unacceptable and counterproductive for business and the profession at large.
The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) has named Dorothy Cosonas as the recipient of the 2016 IIDA Titan Award.
GRESB, the global standard for environmental, social and governance (ESG) assessment of real estate portfolios and infrastructure assets, today announced the launch of the GRESB Health and Well-being Module. This new module is an optional supplement to the GRESB Real Estate Assessment, which is an annual survey on behalf of a large group of institutional investors that captures information regarding the ESG performance of property companies, fund managers and developers.
The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) is pleased to announce that the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Steering Committee has approved the level® Certification Program as a “USGBC Approved Program” for the LEED v4 Material & Resource, Building Product Disclosure and Optimization (Option 1) credit.
