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.
Space has the ability to transform a company’s culture and provide an engaging employee experience vital to success in today’s competitive market. Delivering this experience can be enhanced with a multitude of technology and data sources, all promising the answer to workplace success.
New IoT workplace solutions will allow organizations to spot changes to work patterns in real-time and create solutions that best support people.
Airbnb‘s in-house architecture practice of ten, the Airbnb Environments Team, has designed their new headquarters expansion in collaboration with WRNS Studio, located in San Francisco, CA.
Let’s be honest—the type of use an office lounge, for example, endures is rougher than anything a residential sofa sees. People simply don’t treat public furniture as kindly as they treat their furniture at home.
Offices have come a long way from bare-bones cubicles and indoor-outdoor carpet. Today’s designers are already thinking beyond the 21st century, incorporating nontraditional elements into layout and design that are revolutionizing workplace wellness and technological integration — all with an eye toward flexibility.
New evidence of a strong correlation between productivity, creativity and even profitability with employee working conditions, such as: light, air, noise, health, culture, design, movement and the quality of furniture have been established in a new report.
Top Interior Designers balance collaboration and private workspaces to increase workplace productivity.
When your business is helping clients solve their commercial real estate needs, your workplace presents unique opportunities to showcase your expertise and live by your own best practices.
In today’s human-focused workspaces, space planning has changed radically; there is no one solution. Instead, architects are pushing aside the outdated concept of corner offices with windows for management and a mass of centrally located stations for everyone else.
Interestingly enough, with the rise of co-working locations, global connectivity, and collaboration technologies, many people believe that offices are going to die.
As healthcare systems and healthtech companies continue to push the boundaries of healthcare delivery, consumers will have increasing choice. Design that fully integrates the brand story of these facilities is vital to maintaining customer relationships.
Offering stylish furnishings from globally responsible sources, West Elm grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass).
Those whose offices are arranged by departments are more likely to strongly agree that the current lack of flexibility in the office layout leads to delays in getting projects out of the door, than those whose offices are arranged in project teams (33 percent vs 17 percent).
As a profusion of environmental sensors becomes increasingly available, indoor air quality is something building managers can track and manage.
Certain things seem to go out of fashion, only to come around again: suede and velvet clothing for men, vinyl records, the underhanded free throw in basketball. But Brian Walker, the CEO of furniture company Herman Miller, is convinced that the traditional office–with executives stuck behind closed doors and most everyone else assigned to a fixed workstation–is gone for good.
The new model eschews the common dogmas of work life: Everybody gets an office, or everyone gets a cubicle, or everybody gets a seat on a workbench. A diversity of spaces, experts say, is more productive, and the new concept is called “activity-based workplace design,” tailoring spaces for the kind of work done.
Airborne sound comprises sound generated within a room and transmitted through the air. Typically, this includes people talking, typing, walking and moving objects; phones ringing; noise from heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment; printers; and sound/music systems.
