2022 Green Good Design Award description from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum:
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies jointly announce the winning buildings and product designs from a special GREEN edition of the GOOD DESIGN® Awards program for 2022.
For 2022, hundreds of product designs, graphics, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, together with visionary leaders, were submitted for GREEN GOOD DESIGN from over 40 nations. Under the banner, ‘Build A Better World Now,’ designs for buildings and products that emphasize the most advanced “Green Approach” and the most sophisticated methods and technology to make the most positive impact on the environment were cited and awarded.
Founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames, GOOD DESIGN remains the oldest and most established awards program for the most innovative and visionary new product design worldwide. For over 70 years now, the Award has been given to everything and anything from a NASA space ship to a paper clip.
Now, 71 years after the founding of GOOD DESIGN, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies continues a special edition of GREEN GOOD DESIGN to focus on the most important new international products and buildings and construction and planning projects that are leading the global way to a design that is fully sustainable and compatible with the highest standards of good environment. This year, a jury composed of The European Centre’s International Advisory Committee selected over 150 new buildings, landscape projects, and product designs from over 30 nations as a new design direction for an even greater, more heightened awareness to protect the world’s natural resources and the manufacturing and end-user’s growing concerns for a healthy ecology and human environment.
Conserve, reuse, retrofit, and recycle are prominent themes running across each awarded new product and building design. ‘This program,’ states Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine, Museum President/CEO, The Chicago Athenaeum, ‘dramatically indicates that the Green Movement is in full swing worldwide—from Singapore to Paris and Los Angeles. Architects and designers are quickly developing more and more interesting solutions to meet a more sustainable and ecologically correct future.’
The GOOD DESIGN Award is an internationally recognized seal of quality with a history that spans more than 70 years as the world’s first and oldest and most prestigious awards programs honoring the best, most innovative, and cutting-edge design today.
