2017 National Design Awards Corporate & Institutional Achievement Award Winners, Committee on the Environment
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May 6, 2017
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2017 National Design Awards: Design Trust for Public Space Receives the Corporate & Institutional Achievement Award
DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE RECEIVES
THE CORPORATE & INSTITUTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN
THE 2017 NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS
NEW YORK, NY (Friday, May 5, 2017) – The Design Trust for Public Space is honored to receive the Corporate & Institutional Achievement Award of the 2017 National Design Awards from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The Corporate & Institutional Achievement Award is given in recognition of a corporation or institution that uses design as a strategic tool as part of its mission, and has consistently exhibited ingenuity and insight in the relationship between design and quality of life. The Design Trust for Public Space, the nonprofit organization that unlocks the potential of New York City?s public space, was founded in 1995 by sculptor and philanthropist Andrea Woodner to bring design expertise and big-picture systems thinking into the public realm. The Design Trust is at the forefront of shaping New York City?s shared civic spaces?streets, plazas and parks, transportation and housing developments. The Design Trust has broug...