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Londonewcastle in association with idFX, 100% Design and Bida are launching an inaugural competition to find Britain's Best Emerging Interior Designer.
Up and coming interior designers with a creative flair who are willing to push the boundaries of contemporary design will be judged (by a panel of respected individuals from the design industry) on the ability of their design to demonstrate a unique, original but also practical and liveable take on London living.
The winner of the competition will be named as Britain's Best Emerging Interior Designer at the prestigious 100% Design Awards held in London in September 2008.
The winner will also be given the opportunity to re-create elements of their winning design at the 2008 100% Design Exhibition.
A stand will be provided by Londonewcastle and the winner's creation will be viewed by over 30,000 people including some of the design industry's biggest players.
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Back in 1980, a pioneering Oregonian stumbled across some Mexican Talavera tile she thought she could sell.
Twenty-seven years later, Ann Sacks (now owned by Kohler) is the first and last name in luxury tile, stone and bath fixtures, and boasts a gleaming new Dallas Design District showroom to display it all to perfection.
Located just across the street from the company's previous location, the new, 4,200-square-foot space is a veritable shrine to surface design.
Natural light floods through the floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminating tiles of every shape, size, description and color.
One particularly shining example: the Davlin glass line, made from sheets of gold leaf pressed under glass and priced about $209 a square foot.
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To boost profits and help sell its large-scale projects, architectural mega-firm HKS is turning to, of all things, video game technology.
The Dallas group, whose clients include Whole Foods Market (WFMI), W Hotels (HOT), JCPenney (JCP), and the Ritz-Carlton, and whose projects in construction total $19.7 billion, announced in October, 2007, that it had licensed Unreal Engine 3, a powerful image processing tool that will help its architects produce detailed interactive environments of future projects.
Made by Raleigh (N.C.)-based Epic Games, Unreal Engine allows developers to cut down the time it takes to create complex graphics and game play.
Over the past decade the technology has been used in the production of best sellers such as Gears of War and Mass Effect, churning out increasingly sophisticated polygonal images of all types, from futuristic space stations to hyper-realistic blood and guts.
Applied to architectural models, it is helping HKS generate additional revenues of $65,000 to $150,000 per project.
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Ceramic Tiles of Italy is now accepting entries for their 15th annual Design Competition.
The competition celebrates outstanding examples of contemporary American design featuring fabulous Italian ceramic tiles.
North American architects and interior designers are invited to submit residential, commercial and institutional projects completed between January 2003 and January 2008.
Entries may be submitted for domestic and international new construction and renovation projects.
Winners in each category will receive a cash prize of $5,000 and a trip to Coverings, which will be held in Orlando, Florida from April 29th- May 2nd, 2008.
Winners will also be treated to a 5-day trip to Cersaie 2008, the world's largest exhibition for ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings, and join a delegation of leading design media journalists.
The organization will once again offer an additional $1,000 to be shared by the winning contractor / distributor team.
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The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA] announces a major design competition and public exhibition, "Flip a Strip."
This innovative project will foster creative, new visions for the renovation of the small-scale strip shopping plazas that line the streets of this metropolitan area-and virtually every suburban zone in the country.
"Flip a Strip" continues SMoCA's commitment to creating a forum for public issues of both local and national importance and to generating ideas that better the quality of civic life.
In oversupply yet vastly underused, such strip plazas (built a generation ago) define the streetscapes of many towns.
Many are dilapidated eyesores.
Yet many are home to small restaurants, sole proprietorships and mom-and-pop businesses that can be wonderfully unique, entrepreneurial concerns, highly responsive to community needs.
Strip malls breed strange and wonderful bedfellows (a yoga studio next to pet grooming next to a mattress store, for example), yet are plagued by interspersed vacant storefronts and the most generic of designs.
Ringed by parking and adjacent to thriving neighborhoods, these strip malls have great potential for adaptive re-use and architectural upgrades.
They are an undervalued and neglected building stock.
This competition will look at options for making strip malls economically viable, aesthetically interesting and communally meaningful.
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