Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2015 annual National Design Awards program, which recognize excellence and innovation across a variety of disciplines.
This year’s recipients are Coen + Partners for Landscape Architecture; Michael Graves for Lifetime Achievement; Jack Lenor Larsen for Director’s Award; Rosanne Haggerty for Design Mind; Heath Ceramicsfor Corporate & Institutional Achievement; MOS Architects for Architecture Design;Project Projects for Communication Design; threeASFOUR for Fashion Design;John Underkoffler for Interaction Design; Commune for Interior Design; and Stephen Burks for Product Design.
The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Thursday, Oct. 15, at Pier Sixty in New York during National Design Week, (Oct. 10–18). The design week aims to promote a better understanding of the role that design plays in all aspe
Congratulations to everyone at Coen + Parners for winning the National Design Award for landscape architecture. Founded by Shane Coen in 1991, Coen + Partners is a renowned landscape architecture practice based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Through a process of collaboration, experimentation, and questioning, the firm’s work embraces the complexities of each site with quiet clarity and ecological integrity.
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pretty, but where is this? That Sedum groundcover is a terrible invasive weed here in New Zealand, & very hard to kill. Yet academics & project folk keep wanting to put it on roof gardens in NZ & elsewhere. No Thanks. Not here. Beware elsewhere, especially with climate change as weed zones move.