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TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album

A quick walk thru of Orgatec 2022.

TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album
Manufacturer, NeoCon 2021
Source: CFN News Desk
Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ...

Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.

Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ‘Best Showroom’
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief ...

Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.

Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief Marketing Officer
Manufacturer
Source: CFN News Desk
Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to ...

The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.

Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to provide air quality monitoring and viral detection technology
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

For over 50 years, Heller offered leading designers the opportunity to work with new technologies to create innovative products. Those were great partnerships and they resulted in great products.

Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

Workplace Design

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SHAPING WORK: PLANNING WORKPLACES FOR GENERATION Z

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SHAPING WORK: PLANNING WORKPLACES FOR GENERATION Z

The design of work environments has undergone major changes in the past decade as Baby Boomers have begun to retire and Gen X'ers and Gen Y'ers (Millennials) have begun to dominate the workforce. Boomers desire for hierarchy and private offices has given way to open offices and more collaborative workstyles.

Will this trend continue for the foreseeable future? Most likely yes, BUT . . . 

The next generation of workers is just beginning to enter the workforce and they will have a significant impact on design of work environments. Generation Z (generally those born after 1995) will create another shift in how we think about work. In approximately five years, they will comprise approximately 60 to 80 million people and 20 percent of the U.S. workforce.

Via hga.com >

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PODCAST: Feng Shui and Evidence-Based Design

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PODCAST: Feng Shui and Evidence-Based Design

Developed thousands of years ago in China, feng shui is actually one of the earliest instances of evidence-based design. I started learning about it when I was looking for ways to support health and wellness in my work. It’s about living in harmony with the natural environment, and today those principles are adopted to more urban environments.

Via interiorarchitects.com >

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DESIGNING THE MODERN WORKPLACE

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DESIGNING THE MODERN WORKPLACE

The workforce is changing rapidly due to modern technologies, and employers are shaping workplace design to adjust to the increasingly blurred lines between work and home life.

From social spaces with café-style character  to residential-inspired settings, contemporary workplaces are beginning to integrate choice, social interaction and professional identity – three important considerations for today’s workers. In this month’s news aggregate, we explore these three key trends influencing modern workplace design. 

Via coalesse.com >

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Workplaces Spill over to Public Spaces

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Workplaces Spill over to Public Spaces

As the retail footprint in office buildings shrinks – the result of an ever-rising tide of online shopping – landlords are layering amenity after amenity into public spaces. That could mean coffee, a bar, televisions, breakout space, and retail areas that have become more showroom than store. “It’s more efficient to fulfill the sale digitally – people are buying into a brand, but not buying the brand in retail space,” they say.

Their practice’s focus is on how office buildings and their neighborhoods provide what was once common in the workplace. This new twist is a model that started on the residential level – in buildings with small apartments and larger, common living rooms for hosting parties. “It’s even larger now for commercial space – it’s a place to meet that doesn’t feel like a conference room – it feels like your living room,” they say.

Via architectsandartisans.com >

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Apple agrees to lease half million sq. ft. office at Battersea Power Station

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Apple agrees to lease half million sq. ft. office at Battersea Power Station

Apple has confirmed the rumours that began in the Spring of this year by announcing that it is to relocate its UK headquarters from its current base in the West End along with several other sites to the redeveloped Battersea Power Station. The site’s developers say that Apple will become the largest office tenant at the £9 billion Battersea Power Station mixed use development occupying approximately 500,000 sq. ft. across 6 floors of the central Boiler House inside the iconic building. Apple is expected to move into the Power Station in 2021 at which time the office will account for circa 40 percent of the total office space in the whole development. 1400 Apple employees from existing offices around London will relocate to one of London’s best known landmarks. Apple has added, that this is a great opportunity to have its entire team working and collaborating in one location while supporting the renovation of a neighbourhood rich with history.

Via workplaceinsight.net >

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Magic, psychogeography and the limits of workplace design

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Magic, psychogeography and the limits of workplace design

Derren Brown is clearly on to something. And if you’ve read his books you’ll know that what he’s on to is finding ways to tap into our fascination with how our thoughts and actions can be manipulated using some well-defined and researched techniques and principles. Add in some showmanship and what you have is something that is indistinguishable from magic. You can believe in the magical and mystical if you like, but Derren Brown is a creature of the Enlightenment and has no truck with any of that. He’s got psychology and science on his side. The magic is in our own heads. It’s not just Derren Brown who has used the findings of psychologists to find ways to control people. Many of our current beliefs and the very workings of our society are based on this sort of manipulation. You can also see its workings in the way we think we think we can use workplace design to influence the feelings and behaviour of others.

Via workplaceinsight.net >

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Escape the Office Cube — Companies Provide Dynamic Workspace Solutions

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Escape the Office Cube — Companies Provide Dynamic Workspace Solutions

Traditionally, a professional workspace community is designed to function as an extension of your employer’s brand, seamlessly integrating key attributes and defining characteristics of the company. From the location of your office to where you sit each day to what type of equipment is required, your effectiveness was directly tied to the physical components of your company’s office space. Before the digital revolution entirely changed the way we live and work, providing customized solutions for today’s mobile workforce, this centralized workspace also provided a productive hub for employees to collaborate and meet with partners and clients.

Via adobe.com >

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VIDEO - Case Study: Soludos

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VIDEO - Case Study: Soludos

Soludos, a New York-based fashion footwear brand, turned to Herman Miller to find out how its new office could not only meet the needs of its people, but also become a true expression of its brand. The company built out its new space with help from interior design consultants Homepolish, who brought in vintage pieces to complement new furnishings from Herman Miller.

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COMMERCIAL INTERIOR DESIGN: HOW TO CAPTURE THE BEST LOOK FOR GREATER PRODUCTIVITY IN YOUR BUSINESS

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COMMERCIAL INTERIOR DESIGN: HOW TO CAPTURE THE BEST LOOK FOR GREATER PRODUCTIVITY IN YOUR BUSINESS

Enclosed cubicles, or open spaces and circular tables? Bold colors and designs on the walls, or neutral tones? What is the best look that will bring greater productivity in a business? Be it a retail store, law office, or graphic design studio, these are important decisions for businesses of all sorts to consider. This is where commercial interior design comes into play.

Via tangraminteriors.com >

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MIT And Google Give The Cubicle A Radical, Shape-Shifting Redesign

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MIT And Google Give The Cubicle A Radical, Shape-Shifting Redesign

Once heralded as an ingenious design strategy for saving money and fostering collaboration, the open-plan office has fallen from grace. It's increasingly viewed by employees as a stressful, noisy nuisance, but with real estate prices soaring, it's not an easy trend for many companies to reverse. That's why some of the best solutions have been small-scale interventions that reconfigure existing open-plan spaces to fit employees' needs in the moment.

But ask Skylar Tibbits to design a reconfigurable space for your open office and you're going to get a whole different animal. That's what happened after Drew Wenzel, a civil and environmental engineer who is part of the campus development team at Google, met Tibbits and started collaborating with him earlier this year.

Via fastcodesign.com >

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How Office Space Shapes Company Culture

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How Office Space Shapes Company Culture

Day-to-day influences like your office space can affect how employees interact, what they do and if they have common interests and behaviors—all of which add up to company culture, Cushman & Wakefield tenant rep Kevin Meissner tells GlobeSt.com. We recently spoke exclusively with Meissner, who has written a thought piece on the subject, on how office space and culture work together to create a successful company.

Via globest.com >

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Leaving no turn unstoned

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Leaving no turn unstoned

“A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.” (George Bernard Shaw)

As the recognition grows that the workplace – when well designed, created, maintained and adapted – is able to make a positive contribution to a range of clichés (productivity – this year’s star draw – innovation, creativity, wellbeing, wellness, motivation, inspiration, engagement, development, attraction and retention amongst others), in rough proportion so too grows the number of people talking, presenting, writing and commenting on the subject.

Partial to lobbing a fizzer on a Sunday to generate some discussion, I tweeted that I find it amazing how many of these often-heard folk have never actually created any workspace. The most excellent @antonyslumbers (an expert in a fair few things) replied that many a theatre critic had never written a play. Their encyclopaedic knowledge of who wrote and starred in what, and their ability to quote from the most obscure of creations is no doubt astounding. Yet they will unlikely have experienced the writer’s creative anguish, anxiety, self-doubt and self-recrimination in the smallest of hours that night offers…..unless of course they’re a failed writer.

Via workessence.com >

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6 tips for building a better workplace

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6 tips for building a better workplace

The high demands on IT organizations translate into high demands on IT workers. With new technologies and processes, talent shortages, and studies showing that workers look for meaning, connection, and comfort in their careers, organizations are rethinking the way they design work. Office design is no longer based solely on the efficient use of space, but on creating an environment that fosters human creativity, productivity, and interaction. No more gray and white; no more clean and simple. In fact, no more cubicles and traditional offices. Instead, organizations are creating spaces that are, well, more humane.

Via hpe.com >

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Healthy buildings becoming a key design priority for both architects and building owners

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Healthy buildings becoming a key design priority for both architects and building owners

Almost three out of four of U.S. architects say the health impacts of buildings are influencing their design decisions, according to a survey by Dodge Data & Analytics in partnership with Delos and the Canada Green Building Council, and with assistance from the American Institute of Architects. 

Two-thirds of building owners surveyed also said that health considerations affect how they design and construct buildings. Sixty-nine percent of owners who measure employee satisfaction and engagement reported improvement in both attributes due to their healthier building investments. These findings are included in the report, “The Drive Toward Healthier Buildings 2016.”

Via bdcnetwork.com >

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A Few Office Design Trends That Can Make Real Difference

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A Few Office Design Trends That Can Make Real Difference

Office design trends are very important because their implementation can improve the aesthetic value of the office and boost productivity too. However, by following the wrong trends, business owners can make a huge mistake and witness counter effects. There are also situations when businesses are used to the old design, so when radical changes take place the old harmony is missing. So, the most important thing about office design trends and their implementation is to analyze them thoroughly before using them in specific places.

Via architecturelab.net >

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Three Ways Organizations Can Design High-Performance Workplaces to Attract and Retain Talent

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Three Ways Organizations Can Design High-Performance Workplaces to Attract and Retain Talent

The increasingly fierce war for talent is prompting more organizations to take into account the physical workplace to complement their talent attraction strategies. Three key areas organizations should consider when designing a high-performance workplace are a balance of “me” and “we” spaces, features and amenities that are inclusive of all employees, and connecting the workplace with its surroundings, according to a new report by CBRE.

“There are a variety of approaches to satisfy the high expectations of talented employees, while controlling or reducing real estate costs,” said Peter Andrew, Director, Workplace Strategy, CBRE Asia Pacific, “but the best approaches are people-centric strategies that embrace diversity, choice and community.”

Via cbre.com.hk >

Moving Design Forward

Moving Design Forward

Han Paeman’s design firm just lost a bid to Marc Bertier’s firm. Gloating, Bertier pumps his fist. Yet, they sit together in the same restaurant, enjoying a meal.

Similarly, a table away, Ashley Hall says, “I might ask Ian a question before I would anyone in my own firm,” speaking of Ian Burgess, a competitor who happened to be sitting next to her. “Our firms have amazing people doing amazing things, but it wouldn’t be the same.”

They swap pictures of their kids on their smartphones.

It’s a rare occasion for Paeman and Bertier who are based in Paris, Hall who is based in North Carolina and Burgess, based in London to be in the same space at the same time.

These new friends, now exchanging family photos, met each other over the course of a year-long fellowship hosted by Steelcase and the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

Via Steelcase.com >

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PODCAST: 5 Strategies to Get the Privacy You Crave at Work

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PODCAST: 5 Strategies to Get the Privacy You Crave at Work

You may have heard the open-office floor plan is dead. You may have heard we need more open spaces to collaborate at work. What if we told you, everybody is right? Let us explain.

Despite a growing need for teamwork, ideation and creativity to propel companies forward, we still need our privacy. Depending on your personality, what you’re doing and how your day is going, your need for privacy changes. Privacy is contextual. It’s all about what you need to do your best work in the moment.

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PODCAST: Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos: Why Privacy Matters

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PODCAST: Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos: Why Privacy Matters

Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are innovative business giants known around the globe. They all have at least one thing in common. They each find a way to control the immense demands on their time, making sure they give their brains the ability to think of the next big thing or solve their most pressing problem. It’s very valuable and requires the intentional search for privacy.

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