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.
Owners, developers and designers are rejuvenating older buildings by rethinking the traditional concept of common spaces. Lobbies and public areas previously designed to function solely as entry points and security checks are now hospitality-infused destinations
If your smartphone gets you within a mile of your destination, is that close enough? If a store delivers the shirt you bought, but in the wrong size, can you wear it? If you order steak and the waiter brings you a burger, will you be satisfied? In life and in business, close isn’t good enough. You can’t make meaningful decisions, if you don’t trust how you’re making them. So, when it comes to an organization’s two most valuable assets, people and real estate, it isn’t surprising to learn that accuracy is paramount.
Many corporate cultures have been shifting toward collaborative workspaces, where there is less physical division in the space between workers. Although this fosters a high level of productivity and creativity for some, it can be a detractor for others.
The building, designed by Thomas Heatherwick and BIG in collaboration with BDP replicates some of the campus facilities now associated with a tech campus including a garden, 200m jogging track on the roof, swimming pool, massage parlours exerciserooms and facilities for badminton, five-a-side football and basketball. The finished 11-storey building will be more than one million square feet in size of which Google will occupy 650,000 sq ft.
With so much data available, why is it still difficult to understand how an organization’s biggest assets, people and spaces, perform?
Third annual Legat/DIRTT symposium brings together leaders in healthcare, education, law enforcement, sustainability, and design to consider the future of performance-enhancing environment
Ask any industry expert what’s driving the evolution of workplace design, and you’ll likely hear a short answer: “Millennials.”
As Apple Park approaches completion and thousands of its employees have already moved in, it is worth reflecting on how this extraordinary building envelope was made. It started with the windows: The design teams at Apple and Foster + Partners have the unmatched efforts of seele and sedak to thank for realizing this singularly bold vision for the windows, which also double as walls.
Open-plan offices have become more common since the 1990s but have come under scrutiny in recent years. A recent Haworth's white paper said that open-plan offices are "sabotaging" employees' ability to focus at work, with office workers losing 28 per cent of their productive time due to interruptions and distractions.
At a time when corporations are shifting their strategies to put more emphasis on innovation and creative competitiveness, office designers play an important role in providing the right settings to support that creative work.
Health-focused rating systems exist because occupant health is gaining more attention from business leaders. They are responding to employee demands for healthier workplaces.
Steelcase research reports only 54 percent of real estate is used. Now, new Financial Accounting Standards Board guidelines starting in 2019 require organizations that lease property for more than 12 months to recognize those leases as assets or liabilities. This big change to balance sheets makes it more important than ever for leaders to understand how and if spaces are being used.
While technology, the rise of the contingent workforce and demand for innovation had forced workplaces to rapidly-adapt, face-to-face contact remained central to the economy.
So what might the workplace of the future look like? We asked six office-space experts from around the world to hazard a guess as to where, and how, we will we all be working in ten years from now.
The coworking phenomenon coupled with the ethos of our current time: purpose and impact driven, environmental consciousness, and entrepreneurship, will result in unimaginable scenarios for both work and the future of companies.
It seems that while office design evolves constantly to give employers better work spaces, businesses still don’t choose the right environment for their employees.
