The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design announced pba TOCCO Collection has won a 2024 Green GOOD DESIGN® Award.
TOCCO was previously honored with the Interior Design Magazine NYCxDESIGN Award in May in the Architectural Products Category. In June, it received the 2024 Best of NeoCon Gold in the Architectural Products Category, as well as the Innovation Award across all categories.
Today the sensory inclusive and sustainable TOCCO hardware collection received the 2024 Green GOOD DESIGN® Award. The award recognizes the collection's contribution to sustainable development, highlighting its environmental, social, and economic characteristics within a diverse context of international excellence.
Green GOOD DESIGN 2024 awarded architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, products, packaging, and graphic designs from over 32 nations, representing the world’s most important manufacturers and design firms and leading FORTUNE 500 corporations that are forwarding a new emphasis on a more sustainable design and environment worldwide.
This is the 16th year that the institutions have developed this very specialized edition of the original GOOD DESIGN program, which was founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames.
Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and to develop a public awareness program to the general public about which global companies are doing the best job ecological and sustainable design for our world environments.
pba’s goal is to provide designers with a collection of inclusive and sustainable door hardware, enabling the design of spaces that are more sensory-inclusive and sustainable. This offering gives designers the ability to create environments where diverse user needs are accommodated through a range of options.
The TOCCO Collection offers nearly infinite color options (visual preferences), as well as two grip textures (tactile preferences), ensuring the design of highly inclusive spaces for all users. The levers and pulls grips in the collection are made of ECONYL® regenerated nylon, which is not only environmentally sustainable but also interchangeable allowing spaces to be adapted to users' needs and offering a better thermal comfort by maintaining a temperature similar to the environment.
“We are honored to be recipients of these Green GOOD DESIGN® Awards,” says Francesca Masiero, President of pba. “We need to take a step back, and give up the idea of filling the whole space to make room for something else: other needs, other cultures, other desires. Because the Earth and its resources are not something we inherited from our fathers, but something we are borrowing from our sons.”
Committed to the goals of sustainable development and environmental and social sustainability – inclusivity; given that sustainability cannot ignore the centrality of the individual, pba is advancing sustainable and inclusive practices within the design industry.
“When we design spaces, we must think about the way people perceive and interact with the environment. We must also think about how the things we create can impact the planet, from how materials are sourced, to where they end up at the end of their service life”. Tocco is not a finished collection, is the idea that we should be all committed to push ourselves out of our comfort zone questioning not if, but how we can make a difference in the built environment for our planet today and tomorrow, and for all people looking at diversity as a resource not as a limit, says Erica Anesi, CEO of pba.
