Women In Design

January 27, 2012

Patricia W. Swan, 87, a residence of Stoneridge Retirement Community in Mystic, CT passed away after a brief illness, surrounded by her family and friends on January 23, 2012.

She was born on April 21, 1924 in Malden, MA to Mary (Flett) Swan and Dewey Swan. She grew up in Bronxville, NY, moving to Greenwich, CT when she was 13 and attended the Greenwich High School. She attended Antioch College for a year then volunteered to serve in the (WAC) the Women’s Army Core from 1944 – 46 where she served as a wartime military meteorologist. After the war she attended Columbia University and earned her architectural degree in 1951. (more…)

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Stapleton Library Hard Hat Tour

Friday February 10, 2012 – Friday February 10, 2012

2961 Roslyn Street
Denver, CO 80238

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Please join Women in Design for a tour of the new Stapleton Library, a new 28,000 sf building in the heart of Denver that is currently under construction. OZ Architecture, the Architect, and Adolfson & Peterson, the General Contractor, have graciously invited us on site for a private tour give. Funded through the Better Denver Bond program, this anticipated LEED Silver building will provide much needed library services to Stapleton and the surrounding neighborhoods. Please join us for a preview of this future landmark.

This Member only event is FREE!

Stapleton Library Floor Plan

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Post Valentine's Day Networking Hour

Wednesday February 15, 2012 – Wednesday February 15, 2012

Fado's Irish Pub
1735 19th Street, Denver

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Fado’s Irish Pub (1735 19th Street, Denver)
Open to all – current and potential members – No RSVP required!

Forget about a date, focus on your career! Whether you are bummed or thrilled about your Valentine’s Day, come share your love with other like-minded professionals. Meet, greet, and mingle with Women in Design. New members always welcome!

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Zero Landfill Denver & Cultivate Days

By Geneva Kowalski on

This year as part of Women in Design’s outreach effort we are sponsoring and volunteering for Denver’s new Zero Landfill project. The first “Cultivate” day is February 3rd from 3:00 – 5:00 pm with several more scheduled throughout the spring. If you are interested in helping with volunteer, please email ZeroLandfillDenver@gmail.com.

ZeroLandfillTM is a grassroots upcycling or reuse program started in Cleveland, Ohio in 2006 by individuals working in the architectural and interior design industry. Concerned by the lack of a formal recycling program for the staggering amount of specification materials used in the facility design and renovation processes, the ZeroLandfillTM team developed a program to divert these items from the waste stream and find new audiences in the community who placed value in the materials.

The program is an award winning sustainability in action program for the interiors and architectural industries. Since 2006, the ZeroLandfillTM project team has assisted the architectural and interior design communities in identifying, diverting from local landfills, and re-purposing back into the community thousands of pounds of specification samples that hold value for other audiences, like artists and educators.

Now, instead of ending up in a landfill or an incinerator, manufacturer samples such as carpet tiles, wallcovering and fabric samples, ceramic tile and three-ring binders are collected from participating firms and placed in the hands of local artists, artisans, arts educators and school teachers where they find new life as studio materials and classroom supplies.

To date, ZeroLandfillTM has diverted from the dumpster and returned to the community over 500,000 lbs. of specification materials. In fact, less than 3% of the materials collected by ZeroLandfillTM Cleveland have entered the solid waste stream! The original program in Cleveland has inspired twelve other communities to adopt a ZeroLandfillTM project in their market. New relationships fostered in the community, reduced landfill pressure and awareness of how sustainability can look for an organization, a city or an entire industry are just some of the benefits accrued by the work of ZeroLandfillTM. Happy teachers, specifiers and artists make it all worthwhile.

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Cardboard Metropolis!

By kford on April 19, 2011

Several WiD members volunteered at the AIA’s Box City event this year. On Saturday, April 16, we welcomed over 150 children and their parents/guardians and watched as a brand new city was created inside the atrium of the Wellington Webb Building. At the “store” we supplied our designers/builders with various materials to help them take their sketched designs to 3D forms. There was a mouse hospital, a nuclear power plant, a couple of roller coaster parks, several high rise apartment buildings, the Eiffel Tower fitness park, a candy factory, a puppy playground and doggie daycare, an elementary school, a Mexican restaurant, the capital bldg., a soccer stadium, the Rockies stadium, an aquarium (which also served as a bridge over the river), a house boat, and many more. There was an abundance of creative energy. Inside the “construction zone” the builders turned paper towel rolls in to smoke stacks and roller coaster piers; cereal boxes were sliced up to make coaster cars, canopies and domes; boxes of all shapes and sizes were stacked, taped and wrapped with colorful paper and then markers were used to add more detail. In most cases they remembered to draw in a door or two.

Speaking of doors, in the past the Denver Metro Fire Dept. has attended the event and talked with the aspiring designers/builders about their designs and any safety/exiting issues that they may want to consider in their buildings. This year we had the unexpected excitement of a fire alarm going off (due to some work in the basement allegedly) and we all had to evacuate to the street while the fire fighters did their jobs. The kids may have assumed it was all planned so they quickly formed a line at one of the fire trucks and began tours with the help of some very friendly fire fighters. Leave it to the kids to make the best of an unexpected event.

Thanks to everyone who volunteered to help and who even came back on Sunday to tear down the city. We had a really good turnout and it is with friends like you that we have so much fun at our events!

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