Coalesse is honored to be a part of offices and learning environments around the world. As 2015 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on some of our favorite modern offices featuring Coalesse solutions.
BEST MODERN OFFICES OF 2015
The Top 25 Most Popular Offices of 2015
We find ourselves at the end of another year again and as is our tradition, we’ve compiled a list of the Top 25 Most Popular Offices of 2015 (past years: 2014, 2013, 2012). But it wouldn’t be a proper year-ending post without looking back at what has happened over the past 12 months at Office Snapshots.
How Design Could Make You Calmer, Thinner, And Better At Your Job
In Evidence, our column on the science of creativity and visual culture, we try to unpack the subtle ways design shapes human perception and behavior. Consider how color can make you trust an untrustworthy brand, packaging can alter how food tastes, and playful—some might say juvenile—offices may help you achieve personal job goals.
THE TOP WORKPLACE PROJECTS OF 2015
Workdesign magazine has rounded up 10 of their most popular project profiles from 2015. Mobility, community, and unassigned office spaces (and of course, inspiring and compelling images) stand out as common themes.
7 Office Trends You Can Expect to See in 2016
2015 has been a great year for office trends. Many ditched behemoth leather chairs for standing desks (and scored chiseled leg muscles along the way), waved goodbye to real pants in favor of athleisure, and kicked off super-interesting side hustles. Now that we’re right on the verge of 2016, there’s even more to look forward to.
Muting Unwanted Noise in an Open Office
Ah, the open-plan office, that shining example of egalitarian design, the great leveler of the corporate caste system. Just one problem: there’s no privacy. Open-plan offices are distractingly noisy. Their intended purpose is to boost collaboration and productivity, but these designs have actually done quite the opposite. Research shows that open-plan workspaces damage employees’ attention spans, stress levels, short-term memory, productivity, creative thinking, and satisfaction.
NY Times Author Anne-Marie Slaughter Talks Workplace with IA
If you haven’t read A Toxic Work World, written by Anne-Marie Slaughter and published by the New York Times, you’ve probably read one of many responses to her position in the Washington Post, Refinery 29, Salon.com, or The Atlantic. In her article, Slaughter argues that part of the challenge facing the American workplace is an increasing competitiveness that is edging out not only traditional caregivers—namely women—but anyone who isn’t “healthy, and wealthy enough not to have to care for family members.” Her argument, which she develops further in her new book Unfinished Business, spans cultural values around gender equity, politics, and global economics.
WHAT YOU NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORKPLACE IN 2015
To close out the year, we’ve rounded up our ten most popular Expert Insight and Tips & Trends articles published about the workplace in 2015. The stories cover everything from why mindfulness matters at work to what to do in your open office if you don’t like it, and/or how to tailor it so you do. Take a cruise through and arm yourself with the essential workplace insights you’ll need to get a head start in 2016.
OFFICE FURNITURE AND THE FUTURE OF COLLABORATION
The future of the workplace. Will we sit across from holograms? Will we teleport from one conference room to another? Will pens, pencils, and paper become obsolete? When envisioning the future of the workplace, there is a tendency to think in extremes. We often link the grand concept of “the future” to the fantastical. While technology is evolving at a rapid pace and integrating itself into all aspects of our lives, there is still something to be said for human collaboration. At the root of how we work are the people with whom we work, and the ideas that come from human contact. Therefore, when envisioning the future, it is important to think of technology as something that can adapt to fit natural human functioning, and not the other way around.
3 ways to design an office with limited space
Part of living in LA means paying top dollar for a small home or apartment. And while we find ways to make space for dinner parties, working from home without an office can prove challenging. So what do you do to maximize small spaces when square footage is limited and working from home is your only option? Here are a few tips:
The 12 Hottest Offices Of 2015
While there's certainly no shortage of inventive office designs from 2015, the year's crop took a more restrained approach, eschewing pure whimsy for more sophisticated designs that won't feel dated in a couple of years. A backlash from bombastic design? There's still plenty to ogle, from ski chalets to speakeasy-style spaces.
What’s Happening Inside US Office Space
Smaller, fewer office spaces no longer means a cramped stifling environment as a new age of design emerges, with shared creative workplaces designed for impromptu brainstorming. This in addition to Google-inspired amenities geared for stress relief as well as employee retention.
How to compile your own Top Ten list of the World’s Coolest Offices
The year draws to an end and making a list of what you claim are the world’s coolest offices or making claims about what makes an office cool is a great way of generating some much needed fin de siecle PR. That’s presumably why there are so many features about what constitutes a cool office. You can find them everywhere including in the Telegraph, Fortune, Esquire, Inc and Forbes. Or, like search engine Adzuna, you can openly boast about how much PR you’ve generated with your list and then do it again every year. If you want to tap into this meme, the great thing about it is that you don’t even have to know anything about or even visit the offices you deem cool enough to make your top ten. You can even choose offices from other people’s lists. All you have to do is follow a number of simple and interrelated criteria to come up with a list that is pretty much the same as all the others and say the same things about them.
Five Cozy Fireplaces in the Workplace
As we enter into the holiday season, the weather outside may not be frightful, but the temperature is certainly dropping.
The Interiors Group discuss whether the 'pop up' restaurant trend can be transferred into the world of commercial office design...
It's fair to say that the pop up restaurant craze has taken over London, the country, and the world. And it looks like it's here to stay. Cutting edge restaurants are 'popping up' everywhere, offering customer's adventurous, imaginative food and the opportunity to be part of something exclusive and exciting. Then they disappear as quickly as they arrived, moving on to inspire new people in a new location.
How the Workplace Will Change in the Coming Year
Office interior design trends gradually change from year to year. With 2015 coming to a close, design professionals and experts are steadily drawing up their lists of predictions for the coming year. We spoke to expert Bill Hanley, vice president of strategic partnerships at Kontor, for his take on the office trends that are poised to transform the 2016 workscape.
How to design a workplace to help executives be healthy, more effective
Companies investing in the strategic evolution of their workplaces are often focused on how it can make life better for their people. They recognize that providing a healthy, efficient and fun workplace will help their employees be productive and also help them recruit and retain talent over time. But workplaces aren’t just spaces senior leadership help create and then walk away from. Strategic, smart workplace design can also enrich the work experience for the CEOs and the C-Suite.
8 TOP OFFICE DESIGN TRENDS FOR 2016
You might think that the reams of analysis done on office space would have by now turned every workplace into a humming hive of engagement and productivity. Earlier this year, we even got an advance look at a research paper that outlined alternative design strategies to make workers happier.
Project Files: Emdeon Bay Area Headquarters
In the burgeoning digital health market, Emdeon’s namesake (“Em-de” is a phonetic spelling of MD, combined with “on” for online) is as effective as its holistic vertical market solutions. To help the client keep stride with the healthcare industry’s rapid pace of change, IA designed Emdeon’s new Bay Area headquarters to emphasize the company’s values of connectivity, flexibility, and integration.
Workplace Forecast: 2016
What to expect in workplace design in the year ahead.
As we say at Knoll, the one constant we can count on is change. With this in mind, Knoll Inspiration sat down with Tracy Wymer, Vice President of Workplace Research & Strategy at Knoll, to review 2015 and look forward to the year ahead. Read on to learn how co-working culture will influence more traditional workspaces, why what's good for people is good for organizations, and why there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all.