Shaw Create Centre Wins Fast Company Innovation By Design Award

Cartersville, Ga. -- Patcraft and Shaw Contract, in collaboration with Gensler, recently announced that the Shaw Create Centre has been awarded top honors in the Workplace category in Fast Company’s 2019 Innovation by Design Awards. With more than 4,300 entries from the industry’s top design brands, this year’s applicant pool was the strongest in the competition’s history. The judges included designers from a variety of disciplines, business leaders from some of the most innovative companies in the world, and Fast Company editors. Entries were judged on the key ingredients of innovation: functionality, originality, beauty, sustainability, depth of user insight, cultural impact, and business impact.

The Shaw Create Centre, designed by the team from Gensler Atlanta, is a cutting-edge, three-story facility that is a living representation of the brands’ mission, people and values. Based on the idea that space shapes the personality of a business, the Shaw Create Centre opens opportunities to develop a culture that is authentic and aspirational–and, more than ever, designed to create things that matter.