The 5th Annual Alternative Building Materials & Design Expo (AltBuild) returns this year as the largest and most cohesive green-building Expo in Southern California, offering a number of ‘firsts’ and unprecedented presentations, including the first official presentation by collaborative Green Cities California (GCC). AltBuild will take place on April 25-26, 2008 at its new location, [...]

Expolux brings together the most important industries in the lighting sector. Event is part of the International Construction and Lighting Week in São Paulo, which takes place between 8th-12th April at Anhembi, in São Paulo
With revenues of US$ 1 billion a year and 604 companies the Brazilian lighting sector recorded growth of around 7% in [...]

Some 1, 200 exhibitors and over 100, 000 trade visitors are expected again at the exhibition duo HOLZ-HANDWERK and fensterbau/frontale from 2-5 April 2008. The display area in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg is already practically fully booked months before the exhibition starts.
“Many of the exhibitors at HOLZ-HANDWERK will present their products on an appreciably larger [...]

Light+Building – International Trade Fair for Architecture and Technology – will be held at an almost fully booked out Exhibition Centre (230,000 square metres (gross)) in Frankfurt am Main from 6 to 11 April 2008. In 18 exhibition halls, over 2,100 exhibitors, including all national and international market leaders, will show innovations and numerous energy-efficient [...]

From 1 to 4 April 2008 in Shanghai, BolognaFiere Spa and Shanghai CMP Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd will be staging the largest and most important ceramics exhibition in Asia – CERAMICS, TILES & SANITARY WARE CHINA 2008. Taking place simultaneously with Expo Build China 2008, the leading trade fair dedicated to the building [...]

Cincinnati-based architectural, engineering and interior design firm KZF Design Inc. elected William H. Wilson III its new president and chief executive officer. Wilson, formerly the vice president of technical operations and senior project architect with the company, has been with KZF for 22 years.
He’s a University of Cincinnati graduate. During his years at KZF, he’s [...]

McClatchy Newspapers
Tired of looking in design magazines for tips and not finding anything that suits you? The spring issue of Decorating (a special-interest publication of Better Homes and Gardens) has ideas for decorating smaller homes with human-scale rooms, as opposed to the cavernous rooms seen in more high-end design magazines:
• If you are re-covering furniture, [...]

Homearama is like a fashion show for the home design world, with builders, architects, interior designers and landscapers all striving to push the boundaries and showcase their abilities.
“I love design and it’s a great opportunity to show off what we can do,” says Rick Seitz, co-owner of Artisan Estate Homes, one of the 10 homes [...]

As a professional interior designer with Birmingham-based Maddalena Design, Sally Matak spends her days in a swirl of color, pattern and textures. So, when she heads home, it’s to a purposely serene and simple space where she can relax and refuel.
The 30-something Matak, who grew up in a “teeny, tiny town in Ontario two hours [...]

Cannon Moss Brygger & Associates’ design for the Sioux City Community School District’s Irving Elementary School was awarded the 2007 American School & University Magazine’s Educational Interiors Showcase’s Silver Citation . . . a premier competition honoring education interior design excellence.
This elementary school building, designed around a community concept, focuses on educational pods that are [...]

The annual Student Design Exhibition and Fashion Show will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5, at Oregon State University’s CH2M-Hill Alumni Center. Doors open at 6 p.m.
The event, called “Glamour Confidential,” is organized by students in the Department of Design and Human Environment in the College of Health and Human Sciences. This [...]

Debuting only last year, HI DESIGN, the 2nd annual business meetings forum for the hospitality interior design community which took place at the Intercontinental Berlin on 26- 28 April 2007, saw a 40% increase in the number of attending delegates.
“This leap in numbers has come as no surprise to us. HI DESIGN was borne out [...]