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How much do we think about environment and sustainability during interior design? Do we think, really? But definitely we should!
Interior design plays a vital role in our goal for a sustainable future of the earth through smart selection of material, energy policy and climatic considerations.

Here comes the chance to test your works! What have you done so far 'smart' in interior design? Don't miss the opportunity to try out the
IIDA - Metropolis Smart Environment Awards 2009.

It is a competition for professionals. Any professional architect or interior designer can submit their built projects completed in 2009 or the project which has never been published before. Winning projects may get the chance to be presented at USGBC's Greenbuild Expo 2009 in Phoenix, USA and will be published in the Metropolis magazine and Metropolicemag.com.
Any type of interior design projects are valid for submission.

Deadlines: Deadline to Request an entry kit is September 24th, 2009. Deadline to submit completed entries is October 9th, 2009
CLICK HERE to know more.

It is going to be the first tribute to Bauhaus at MoMA since 1938. The upcoming exhibition “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” is going to be the first major show in the United States on the subject in decades.
A collaborative consortium of three Bauhaus archives at Dessau, Berlin and Weimar are going to supply their bests to MoMA later this year for the exhibition. The diverse array of exhibits sets this exhibition one of the most important exhibitions on architecture this year.

It will be held from November 8, 2009 to January 25, 2010 at
The Museum of Modern Art, 
11 West 53 Street, New York.

CLICK HERE to learn more.

The practice of sustainable green design is gradually taking over the market. It is quite amazing that many of the top architectural firms are generating good amount of revenue out of sustainable projects. Here is the top 10 firms among the list of 100 top Green Design Firms (based on design revenue from sustainable projects):

1  HOK, St. Louis, Mo.
2  URS Corp., San Francisco, Calif.
3  Perkins+Will, Chicago, Ill.
4  AECOM Technology Corp., Los Angeles, Calif.
5  HKS Inc., Dallas, Texas
6  Gensler, San Francisco, Calif.
7  HDR, Omaha, Neb.
8  Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP, Portland, Ore.
9  Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc., Raleigh, N.C.
10 Tetra Tech Inc., Pasadena, Calif.

To learn more and to get the full list of top 100 Green Design Firms CLICK HERE.
[News from Architectural Record & Engineering Design Record]