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, [...]

CoWare®, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, and Tensilica®, Inc., the leading provider of configurable processor cores, announced they have collaborated to deliver a comprehensive ESL design environment with CoWare’s Platform Architect for Tensilica’s processors. CoWare will distribute a SystemC-based Processor Support Package (PSP) with the flexibility to [...]

Noted Oakland architect Horace Gilford had a flare for design, whether working on schools, city buildings, shopping malls or unique single-family homes.
But what people remember most was his willingness to reach out and mentor young black colleagues, offering support, guidance and a forum for them to showcase their work.
Gilford died Jan. 4 of complications from [...]

Today, the crossroads of business and design are intersecting at an unprecedented rate, as leading organizations see design as a tool for innovation, competitiveness and growth. Graduate business programs — such as the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley — are integrating design into their curriculums, top business publications are [...]

Noted Oakland architect Horace Gilford had a flare for design, whether working on schools, city buildings, shopping malls or unique single-family homes. But what people remember most was his willingness to reach out and mentor young black colleagues, offering support, guidance and a forum for them to showcase their work.
Gilford died Jan. 4 of complications [...]

Two Cambridge residents are among four Conestoga College architecture students to be honoured with scholarships.
The scholarships are from the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) foundation - the largest and most widely-recognized professional association for facility management. The foundation awarded 23 scholarships.
Winning students come from highly-regarded schools such as Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech and Cal-Berkeley. No [...]

Twice a year, furniture manufacturers, retailers and magazine editors gather in High Point, N.C., to see what’s in the pipeline for the coming season. From across the 12 million square feet of showrooms comes a wealth of new trends, color directions, and insider chatter.
What will the best-dressed rooms be wearing next spring? Some clues follow.
Blue [...]

One of Japan’s leading architects has been selected to design a new home for the art museum and film archives at UC Berkeley.
After a 9-month search, Toyo Ito & Associates was chosen as the architect of the high-profile project in downtown Berkeley. Ito — whose work is marked by a subdued but imaginative, modern look [...]

Toyo Ito, Tokyo’s acclaimed experimental architect, got the job of designing the new home of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in part because he impressed university officials with his vision of how to blend a major cultural building into the life of a city.
The museum, to be built in downtown Berkeley [...]

They came, they watched, they listened, they noshed, and for the most part, they liked.
The occasion was the beginning of what promises to be a full-court press by UC officials and boosters as they seek funds and approval for “a place where ideas run free and wild,” a $120 million complex in the heart of [...]

CELIA Birtwell’s floral print designs once adorned Mick and Bianca Jagger, the McCartneys, Paloma Picasso and Jimi Hendrix, and she and her husband Ossie Clark were at the epicentre of Swinging London. They were seen at all the right parties, graced the cover of fashion magazines and their portrait, by David Hockney, hung in [...]