4.14.08 | Benjamin Moore presented its annual HUE Awards on March 27 in New York City.This year’'s honorees competition winners were:

• STUDIOS Architecture, San Francisco, for Contract Interiors
• Donald Lococo Architects, Washington, DC, for Residential Exteriors.
• Danielle Bokor, of Bokor Consulting, Inc., Woodmere, NY, for Residential Interiors

4.14.08 | Last month, officeinsight went to the exhibition of the 2007 International Design Awards at the Museum of Design, Art, and Architecture in Culver City, CA. The International Design Awards is a new competition whose mission is to “recognize, celebrate and promote legendary design visionaries and to uncover emerging talent in architecture and interior, product, graphic and fashion design.” IDA was founded by the Farmani Group, the same minds that created the Lucie Awards for Photography.

4.7.08 | French architect Jean Nouvel is all over the map – both literally, with projects on four continents, and in terms of his design as well. Maybe the diversity of his work is why Pritzker Prize jurors have been slower in recognizing the 62-year-old Nouvel, the 2008 winner, than several of his peers. Unlike, say, previous winners Frank Gehry or Richard Meier, Nouvel has no signature style.

3.24.08 | ASID (The American Society of Interior Designers) joins BIFMA (Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Society) in getting very high marks for their annual conferences. Both events had knowledge presentations that were worth the trip alone (and we are pretty educated to begin with). But if you really want to rock, ASID is the team to go with.