May 4 2022 Event Recap Honor Awards The Fox Theater, Oakland We kicked off this year’s show and celebrated our community being together again with a live, all singing, all dancing musical tribute to the heritage of the Fox Theatre. It was a wild start to the evening! Dancers greeted guests as they arrived at […]
March 10, 2022 IIDA Northern California VP of Advocacy, Laura Taylor, IIDA and Assistant VP of Advocacy, Adam Newton, Associate IIDA testify in person in Sacramento during the 2022 CCIDC Sunset Review Hearing, encouraging lawmakers to take time to study the specific issues related to commercial interior designer’s regulation and practice privileges dictated by legislation […]
January 20, 2022 Governor Newsom released his budget proposal for 2022-23, which includes billions of dollars in proposed investments to fight and prepare for climate change, and to tackle the growing challenges surrounding homelessness and access to housing. The Governor’s climate change action plan includes a tremendous infusion of resources for Zero-Emission Vehicles, transit, clean […]
August 4th, 2021 This year, IIDA took an important step in its advocacy efforts when both the Northern and Southern California Chapters of IIDA voted to support Senate Bills (SB) 31 and 32, both authored by Senator Dave Cortese from Santa Clara. In a nutshell, both bills were aimed at promoting building decarbonization to reduce […]
May 27th, 2021 In a landmark move, IIDA’s Northern and Southern California boards both voted to publicly support California Senate Bills 31 and 32 at their April meetings. SB 31 and 32 target the decarbonization of buildings as a way of combating global warming; this is an area of clear importance to our industry, and […]
December 11, 2020 Sonoma County, north of the San Francisco Bay, covers a large area, but it is a tight community with very few degrees of separation among its residents. When the 2017 Tubbs Fire took out nearly 6,000 homes in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County’s largest city, everyone was affected to some degree. 1 in […]
November 30, 2020 Like every other industry today, architecture & design are having serious, soul-searching conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion. But we may be missing a straightforward legal adjustment that could change the inner workings of the industry in profound and positive ways. Our industry has focused for a long time on the overwhelming […]
On Friday, November 21, 1980, the MGM Grand Hotel, one of the centerpieces of the Las Vegas Strip, had a fire that started small but quickly spread through the property, with devastating effects. The fire killed 85 people, and in the weeks that followed, it would force a wholesale re-evaluation in high-rise building code. Its […]
Published October 30, 2020 2020 has been a year like no other, COVID-19 has affected nearly every aspect of our lives. As humans do, we have adapted. We have developed new ways to work, to socialize and to practice self-care. Many of us have more time to spend with family, explore new hobbies, and tackle […]
Navigating Unprecedented Times Commercial interior designers across the country are grappling with the monumental issues of today and how they affect our work and public spaces. The COVID-19 pandemic, racial justice movement and climate change all have major implications for how commercial spaces function and how to make them safe, functionally efficient and aesthetically rich. […]