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A crowd of nearly 600 attended Contract magazine’s interiors Awards Breakfast. Pictured are (bottom row, left to right) Margaret sullivan of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture with Contract editor in Chief John Czarnecki and Katy Clark of the Orchestra of st. Luke’s; John Peterson of Public Architecture and Jon strassner of Humanscale; Czarnecki and Legend Award winner Carl Magnusson; Virginia Lung and Ajax Law Ling Kit of One Plus Partnership; Alan ricks and Michael Murphy (right) of MAss design Group flank Czarnecki. 16 issue. The magazine and Interiors Awards Breakfast program Contract magazine presented the 33rd Annual Interiors Awards booklet were both designed by Thirst / A Design Collaborative, led to a full hall of nearly 600 attendees at the Interiors Awards Breakfast by Rick Valicenti. “This is a new day for Contract,” Czarnecki said. on January 27 at Cipriani in New York. Contract Editor in Chief John “In a big, dramatic gesture, we have launched our redesigned magazine Czarnecki emceed the event, with a theme of partnerships, and awarded Designer of the Year to MASS Design Group. “There are many and I hope that you’re as excited about it as we are.” Interiors Awards Breakfast sponsors were Shaw Contract Group designers doing outstanding work,” Czarnecki said. “But one firm has and Teknion at the Platinum Level, as well as Toto, Versteel, Halcon, emerged in the last five years with an admirable, remarkable mission and that is the 2012 Designer of the Year, MASS Design Group, founded Herman Miller Healthcare, InterfaceFlor, Universal Fibers, Bentley Prince Street, Gunlocke, Haworth, J+J/Invision, Luna Textiles, by Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks.” Mannington Commercial, Tuohy, and Wolf-Gordon. The Legend Award went to Carl Gustav Magnusson, who was Read more about the Interiors Awards in the January/February introduced by 2005 Legend Award recipient Neil Frankel. The program issue of Contract and at contractdesign.com/interiorsawards. Visit also honored the designers and clients of 13 projects that won 2012 contractdesign.com/2012DOY to learn more about MASS Design Interiors Awards. In addition to the awards, the event also celebrated the complete Group and to view the Designer of the Year video that was presented redesign of Contract magazine with the launch of the January/February at the Interiors Awards Breakfast. contractdesign.com MArCH 2012 PHOTOGRAPHY: JEFF kLEIN industry news Celebrating Design at Interiors Awards Breakfast http://www.contractdesign.com/interiorsawards http://www.contractdesign.com/2012DOY http://www.contractdesign.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Contract - March 2012

Contract - March 2012
Table of Contents
Editorial
Industry News
Product Focus: Cool for School
Product Focus: User Friendly
Product Briefs: Head of the Class
Design Shaping the 21st Century College Campus
Interior Space as Commodity on Campus: An Opportunity for Designers
PACCAR Hall University of Washington
Umeå School of Architecture
Coventry University Hub
Centennial College Library and Academic Facility
Practice: Economy Fuels Design Reinvention
Designers Select: Resilient and Tile Flooring
Sources
Ad Index
Perspectives

Contract - March 2012