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.
The recently completed Virgin Voyages headquarters in Plantation, FL. Influenced by hospitality design and the vibrant Virgin culture, the new workplace is creative, distinctly branded, and welcomes you on board!
It’s been 50 years since the open-office concept came to America. The goal was to put people closer together, increase collaboration and save money on space.
The workplace will become part of a bigger community space, not a hermetically sealed box. Jeremy Myerson, the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at the Royal College of Art, says he believes the hyperbole around transformational change in the workplace.
Done in collaboration with MINI and seen over at Designboom, Mountain on the Moon is seen as a miniature hub in Madrid where people can gather to work, play and sit, or even charge their devices using renewable power.
Former WeWork executive Frank Bistrian aims to regenerate the workplace by focusing on health and wellness.
There’s an old saying that lighting design is as much about designing with shadow as it is about designing with light, but that doesn’t apply to the workplace because the work environment needs to be evenly lit, right? Wrong.
Traditional office elements are returning to workspaces that were recently filled with Ping-Pong tables and beer on tap.
Once virtual environments replace offices, companies will build loyalty and community through “agora spaces”—chameleonic environments for socializing, collaborating, and connecting.
Over the last 10 years, we have witnessed a dramatic transformation of the workplace. This transformation continues, as cubes with high walls and private offices with minimal glass are often replaced with an open environment and a variety of work settings that support collaboration
Data shows that employee experience is the primary driver for companies redesigning their workplace .
Knoll’s study “Immersive Planning From Research to Realization: An Experience-based Workplace”presents a new approach towards workplace design.
When it comes to building the perfect office space for the modern corporate world, landlords and designers are doing their best to guess what companies are looking for, but the answer is there is still no good answer.
The interior design of the International Space Station takes a back seat to technology—the opposite of the majestic and immaculate spacecraft you see in sci-fi blockbusters.
I’m amazed how many CEOs tell me they made a decision to have an open office plan because “The vision Google has for their workplace deeply resonated with me.”
Riccardo Mascia, Peter Ruggiero and Tom Marquardt discuss the design of this next-generation workplace and explain how it supports HOK’s goals of providing design excellence and the highest quality work.
Before making plans for a new work space, designers must acknowledge human nature—and design with a holistic approach.
The past five years have seen a rapid shift in the design preferences of corporate clients. Empowered by websites that make the envisioning of design options possible (e.g., Pinterest, Houzz, etc.) and fed by the ongoing trend of promoting “residential” qualities within a workspace, clients are increasingly seeking solutions outside of established channels.
The world is constantly changing around us, and as humans we’re adapting our behaviour accordingly. From interactions with friends and family, to the way we work - chances are that we’re doing these differently now to how we were doing everyday tasks 10 years ago.
Workplaces that work provide a variety of spaces to support choice and personal preference in when and where work gets done.
