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GROHE x WAF: 2025 Roadshows

GROHE is proud to continue honoring its commitment to architectural and design excellence as a World Architecture Festival founding partner since the festival’s inception in 2008.

While we prepare for the main WAF event & awards in Miami this November, we are hosting regional events with interactive panels of key architects and designers in each region. With media, influencers and thought-leaders in attendance, we can collectively strengthen GROHE partnerships while exploring how WAF influences and inspires the global architecture community.

WAF Live: How Architects and Designers Grow Through Critique, Community & Conversation

Thursday July 31st, 5:30-7:30pm CST

HKS Office 350 N. St. Paul, #100 1st Floor Learning Center, Dallas, TX 75201

We invite you to join us for the GROHE X WAF Event in Dallas — an evening of insightful discussion, industry networking, and design. We’re excited to host a panel discussion featuring leading voices in the design and architecture community, hosted at esteemed architecture firm, HKS. Our panelists are eager to share with you their valuable insights that drive innovation, elevate industry standards, and inspire design excellence.

The Power of Awards - Driving Innovation & Design Excellence

Wednesday, June 18th at 6:30pm

Client from Hell, 1390 Dufferin St, Toronto, ON

Join us for our panel discussion: The Power of Awards - Driving Innovation & Design Excellence. We will explore how international awards like WAF influence design innovation, elevate industry standards, and inspire architects and designers to push creative boundaries while highlighting the unique live-judging format of WAF and its impact on peer-to-peer learning.
jean jacques
Jean-Jacques L'Henaff
Leader, LIXIL Global Design, Americas
Heather Dubbeldam
Heather Dubbeldam
Principal, DUBBELDAM Architecture + Design
Bruno Weber
Bruno Weber
Partner, KPMB Architects
ted watson
Ted Watson
Partner, MJMA Architecture & Design

Design Cohesion: How Ideas Stay Connected From Concept to Completion

Monday, June 9th Boarding begins at 5:30pm - 8:15pm CST
 
Chicago Riverboat Tour, 112 E. Wacker Drive on the Chicago Riverwalk

A truly cohesive space begins with architecture, but the interplay between form, design vision, and product precision brings it to life. This panel gathers voices from across the design spectrum: architecture, interiors, media, and product development to discuss how ideas stay connected from concept to completion.
Jacob Nitz
Jacob Nitz
Creative Director, Lixil Global Design
jessica lagrange
Jessica Lagrange
Founder & Principal, Jessica Lagrange Interiors
david chase
David Chase
Director of Communications & Editor of Chicago Architect Magazine at AIA Chicago
ren  yee
Ren Yee
Associate Design Director, UNS

The Heart of Architecture & Design,
Presented by GROHE & WAF

Embracing the WAF 2025 Theme: "Hearts & Minds"

GROHE is honored to host esteemed guests and panelists at a special kickoff event to celebrate WAF 2025. The event, taking place in the brand-new Lixil Water Experience Center in NYC, will feature three panels bringing together distinguished, world-renowned architects, interior designers and industry leaders to navigate and explore the future of design. Panels will be hosted by Jean-Jacques L'Henaff, Leader of LIXIL Global Design Americas.

The theme of WAF 2025 is "Hearts and Minds", and panelists will thoughtfully embrace this theme, touching upon how architecture and design affect how you think, feel and live, as well as delivering more functional and sustainable outcomes. To learn more about WAF 2025, click here

Panel 1 - Hearts and Minds: How WAF Helps inspire Architects to Balance Form and Feeling

paul
Paul Flowers
Chief Design Officer, LIXIL
paul
Paul Finch
Programme Director, WAF

Panel 2 - Bridging Borders with Design: Unity Through Architecture

kai
Kai Bergmann
Partner, BIG
danny
Danny Forster
Partner, Danny Forster & Architecture

Panel 3 - Interior Alchemy: Elevating Design with Architectural Influence

vanessa
Vanessa Deleon
Principal, VDA Designs
daun
Daun Curry
Principal, Daun Curry Design Studio
corey
Corey Damen Jenkins
Principal & CEO, Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates

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