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.
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.
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.
Today’s ever-more competitive business arena has rendered one-size-fits-all office space obsolete. Nowadays, every work station, huddle room, and cafe can be designed to directly support flexibility, mobility, and ultimately, the employee experience as a whole. But that doesn’t mean that they have been.
Sarah Buhr visits Adobe's Gensler designed bay area headquarters to talk design and experience the office culture.
As we’ve written before, experiential graphic design can help establish the brand and culture of a company through its built environment. A popular way to create connections and pride among employees to their work space is by linking that space to its geographic location. Graphics, such as murals or other adorning wall art, can help create a sense of place for associates and visitors alike.
Clerkenwell Design Week is always one of my favourite design exhibitions of the year. With Clerkenwell home to more creative businesses than anywhere else, it’s the best place to discover what’s shaping innovative design, and I always leave with fresh ideas to bring to Forster Inc.
Our relationship with the workplace is changing. As work-life and home-life collide, residentially inspired environments are reshaping our vision of the modern office. The more we bring our work home – the more we bring our personal lives into the corporate sphere. In response, our workplaces have begun to feel more like living rooms and cafes than they do workstations and corner offices. Furnishings and accessories are now valued as-much for the stories they tell, and the emotional responses they create, as they are the function they provide.
Office design goes far beyond functionality and appearance. Designing to promote employee wellbeing is a strategy that more and more organizations are beginning to implement in the workplace. Over the last decade, we’ve seen a surge in workplace wellness programs and other workplace trends centered on health and wellbeing. Ergonomic solutions, alternative working spaces and office flexibility for workers have begun to gain more momentum. Here are a few of our suggestions for taking a health-minded approach to your workplace design
Every company has its own specific combination of workplace requirements but those in the research and development (R&D) sector tend to have more rigid prerequisites than most.
It’s not just about housing high-tech equipment or even hazardous materials, it’s also about creating workplaces which can allow firms conducting R&D in fields from engineering to biopharma to respond quickly to major evolving trends.
While collaboration and social collisions have been emphasized in workplace design over the past few years, the pendulum is swinging back toward a place where introverts can shine with plenty of quiet corners, furry friends and do-it-yourself office design.
“We have reached a saturation point,” Gensler head of design Phillipe Pare said. “It is very hard for us to really relax.”
In February 2013, Yahoo set off a mighty global stink when it sent a memo telling staff to forget about working from home, Starbucks, wherever and return to its corporate embrace. The intention of recently installed CEO Marissa Mayer was to increase collaboration and productivity by getting everybody in the same space.
Apple’s shiny new $5 billion campus opened to employees in late April. But, so far, it seems only Wired has been granted permission to permeate the four-story glass walls and return to civilization with a breathless review of what’s inside. So breathless, in fact, that some of details seem too fantastical to believe.
Never before have people’s expectations of interior spaces been more complex. Nor, has there ever been a greater responsibility on owners, architects and designers to meet these needs. Now, +Positive spaces™ pave the way to better design.
+Positive spaces are environments that create an impact as a result of the attributes of the space and the people who use it. Whether that environment is a small reading nook or a sweeping botanical garden, these spaces give people permission to work as they see fit. And in doing so, people reach their potential, cascading greater good to others and our planet. That’s a lot to be positive about.
From Baltimore to Washington, D.C., the quest for some of the coolest office attributes continues. These 13 companies hail from New York City, where beautiful buildings and architecture fill every block. This time, we looked for companies that had a specific feature that makes their office truly unique--a standout quality that really differentiates them and lets their brand shine.
Gone are the days of generic office decor—at least for these four innovative spaces. Offices around the world are driving a movement of featuring and/or commissioning local artists to brighten the workplace. In lieu of mass-produced and mainstream prints and pieces, local art featured in office spaces benefits both the people who work there and the artist.
From open work environments to amenity-rich campuses, tech offices have set the bar high. But not all features have created productive and efficient work environments.
Does a workspace really need 'fun' fixtures to inspire creativity? We asked BBC Culture's architecture and design critic Jonathan Glancey for his take on the modern office.
Imagine coming to work every day and not being sure where to sit. You don't have a desk — instead, you need to figure out what's ahead in your day and what type of space you need, and then find a spot.
That's life at the new Toronto headquarters of consulting firm Deloitte.
Thoughtfully curated destinations are rising to the forefront as today’s employees seek personalized work environments. As companies shift toward more tailored spaces, we’ve noticed a corresponding uptick in details inspired by their location. In this month’s news aggregate, we explore the role of community in the modern workplace: both how local culture impacts design and how organizations are fostering community from within.
Alison O’Reilly, of interior design firm ID:SR, says working practices are changing faster than ever before due to technology
Fueled by aspirations to be associated with the digital revolution, many banks, insurance companies and even law firms are strategically identifying their offerings as technology-driven, embracing tech as a core part of their identity. Meanwhile, many tech companies are moving away from this label, acknowledging that technology is simply a medium—not the message—for what they do, and technology alone isn’t a marketplace differentiator.
What types of objects give you an emotional connection to a place? What examples of craftsmanship, artistry or design attract your attention, stimulate your appreciation … maybe even give you a sense that you belong there?
