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.
TOCCO Collection has been designed to be easy disassembled, facilitating recycling the different components at end of life. The collection has an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), it contributes to satisfying LEED requirements and has a Declare Red List Free, contributing to building a sustainable future.
The grip of the TOCCO Collection is made of ECONYL®, 100% regenerated nylon from waste such as fishing nets, old carpets destined for landfills, plastic components and fabric scraps from mills. As well as being a solution on waste, ECONYL® is also better when it comes to climate change. It reduces the global warming impact of nylon by up to 90% compared with the material from oil.
pba collaborated with RainlightSTUDIO and Kay Sargent, Cognitive and Sensory Wellbeing Design Consultant.
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pba is the premier brand of AISI 316L stainless steel, the hardest, most resistant and elastic of steels, of polyamide 6, the most noble of thermoplastic resins, of aluminum EN-AW 6, smooth and durable, and of antimicrobial copper. We develop our main themes: door and window levers, pulls and locking pulls, millwork pulls, hands-free pulls, and all the accessories for a “life safe and without barriers”: the Design for All bathroom accessories, and the Hand-Rail collections. We believe that objects reflect a space, embody its attitude, illusions and possibilities; we know that bringing a new form into the world can affect the life of everyone. pba has always collaborated with the most important international designers to develop unique product. pba products have been featured in the most important projects worldwide: from PIF Tower in Saudi Arabia to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, from San Pellegrino Flagship Store in Italy to The New School University Center in NY, from Radison Blu Hotel in South Africa to ZNB – Zentraler Neubau Haus Klinikum in Stuttgart. For more information, visit: pba.it or @pba_spa_official.
ECONYL® Regenerated Nylon
ECONYL® is a brand of regenerated nylon that is made from recycled waste instead of oil and is also regenerable an infinite number of times without any compromise in quality. ECONYL® yarn helps divert global waste streams that would otherwise pollute the Earth such as fishnets, carpet and industrial plastic. Designers use ECONYL® to produce a wide range of textile products such as sportswear, swimwear, bags, eyewear and carpets. For more information, visit econyl.aquafil.com or @ECONYL.