by Brianna Crandall — August 18, 2014—The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the winners of the prestigious 2014 GREEN GOOD DESIGN awards, which are an extension of the partners’ GOOD DESIGN Awards.
The GOOD DESIGN Awards, which were founded in Chicago in 1950 by renowned architects, recognize “the best industrial and graphic designers and world manufacturers for their pursuit of extraordinary design excellence.” The GREEN GOOD DESIGN Awards follow suit by focusing on cutting-edge practices, products and architecture that are also environmentally sound.
The Product Design category showcases everything from electronics, bionics/robotics and energy systems to office and residential furniture, floorcovering and building materials to tools, medical products, and sports and recreation equipment. The Graphic Design category showcases such graphics as books, magazines, Web sites, corporate identity programs, annual reports, handbooks, posters, signage, digital and media interfaces, and more.
A small representative sample of the award winners includes Teknion Corporation’s Sidewise casegoods workstation and Projek task seating; CSL’s (Creative Systems Lighting) three-inch LED Eco-Downlight and LED pendants; and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s Great City Chengdu Master Plan, Xixian Great City Master Plan, Solar EV Dock, and AS+GG Density Study: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies.
For more information on Teknion Corporation’s awards and furniture offerings, see the Teknion Web site as well as their FMLink ad.
