Photo: Toronto Society of Architects (TSA) The Toronto Society of Architects (TSA) Paper City, is inviting participants to be the architect of their own paper creations as part of a special family program for Doors Open Toronto 2024. Participants and their children will be able to test their architectural skills and creativity by building a piece of TSA Paper City, a community art piece made from participants’ designed buildings. The activity will include various printed templates for families to cut, colour, and fold together to create their own unique structures. The event will also feature ..read more

Snowflake Toronto Office – Welcome to Snowflake. Photo Credit: Snowflake, Ei Photography Inc. Data Cloud company Snowflake, has opened its new Toronto office, which aims to support the company’s strategic growth in the Canadian market as well as growing headcount. Located at 16 York Street in the heart of Toronto’s business and technology core, the office, which serves as the company’s Canadian headquarters, occupies two floors and 52,000 square feet. Snowflake first landed in Canada in 2022, making Toronto home to one of the company’s five global Snowflake Engineering Hubs. Snowflake’s Toron ..read more

The Royal Hotel in Picton, Ontario, by Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects. Photo by Graydon Harriott The Royal Hotel in Picton, Ontario, by Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects, is the sole Canadian winner in the International Interior Design Association’s (IIDA) 50th annual Interior Design Competition. The Interior Design Competition, which marked its golden anniversary, recognizes creativity and innovation within the global interior design industry. “This year holds incredible milestones for the interior design profession as we revel in IIDA’s 30th anniversary, as we cel ..read more

Photo courtesy of Benjamin Moore To highlight the critical role painting contractors serve in the community, paint, colour and coatings company Benjamin Moore celebrated its third-annual Contractor Appreciation effort dedicated to residential and commercial painting contractors, and will finish off the celebrations with its custom Airstreams final stop in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) on May 3 in Woodbridge, Ontario. Along with the in-store events, the brand also deployed two custom Airstreams around the nation to host pop-up events for professional painters at select retailers. The experien ..read more

Photo courtesy of Salone del Mobile.Milano This year’s edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano featured 1,950 exhibitors from 35 different countries, a Cultural Programme and a challenge called “evolution.” With an increase of 17.1 per cent of visitors in comparison to 2023, the Salone del Mobile.Milano 2024 saw a record turnout with 361,417 attendees overall, equivalent to 100,000 more than in 2022. Professional presences were up 26.8 per cent, with 65.8 per cent of them from abroad. The top 15 market geographies saw China make a great comeback, followed by Germany, Spain, Brazil, France, the Un ..read more

Plains & Pods by Landscape Forms Plains & Pods | Landscape Forms Landscape Forms, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-design site furniture, structure, LED lighting and accessories in North America has introduced the Plains & Pods system of seating, surfaces, and planters created with  London-based design studio, Industrial Facility.  Plains & Pods are designed to work both together and independently, and use minimalist, non-prescriptive design to prioritize flexibility, adaptability, and user autonomy. Plains, which is rectilinear and architectural, is made ..read more

Photo credit: MIFF 2024 This year’s edition of the Malaysian International Furniture Fair (MIFF), Southeast Asia’s largest B2B furniture trade show and office furniture showroom, took place from March 1 to 4, 2024. The 30th edition of the fair featured 715 exhibitors from 15 countries and regions including Malaysia, to connect with buyers from all over the world looking for furniture and suppliers for household and commercial products. MIFF 2024 welcomed a total of 5,419 international attendees from 120 countries and regions, a 6 per cent increase from last year, and posted a high of $1.28 bi ..read more

Installation view of the exhibition Kapwani Kiwanga: Trinket, 2024, Canada Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts © Kapwani Kiwanga / Adagp Paris / CARCC Ottawa 2024 Photo: Valentina Mori An exhibition called Kapwani Kiwanga: Trinket, was unveiled last week by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), commissioner of Canada’s participation in the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Kapwani Kiwanga, a Canadian and French artist based in Paris, has t ..read more

An employee at Keilhauer measures an ottoman during assembly (Photo: Canada’s Top 100 Employers project.) For the tenth year in a row, Keilhauer has been recognized as one of Canada’s Greenest Employers by the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project. This competition acknowledges employers who have developed and implemented exceptional sustainability initiatives and are leading the country in creating a culture of environmental awareness in their organizations. Each employer is evaluated by the editors of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in terms of the unique environmental initiatives and programs they ..read more

The Royal Hotel in Picton, Ontario, by Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects. Photo by Graydon Harriott The Royal Hotel in Picton, Ontario, by Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects, is among the finalists for the International Interior Design Association’s (IIDA) 50th annual Interior Design Competition. The competition, which is celebrating its landmark anniversary, honours creativity and innovation within the industry. “The Interior Design Competition marks a 50-year lineage of design projects that push boundaries, exhilarate, and evolve how we experience the built space,” sa ..read more