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 principles behind this complex situation have been known to us for a long time, at least since the 1970s when Frank Duffy first introduced the world to his ideas about the physical and temporal layers of the building – in his terminology the ‘shell, services, scenery and sets’ which anticipates Stewart Brand’s own take on the interplay of building layers.
HOK’s Workplace group has just released their annual report which explores a crucial issue in workplace and interior design. “HOK Forward: Tech Workplace Takes Center Stage” investigates the distinct threats and challenges facing the tech sector and how these same challenges are affecting all companies, regardless of the industry in which they operate.
How can leaders create the positive effects of nature within the urban environments in which reside many of the leading global businesses?
Rather than just retailing a catalog of mix-and-match prefab storage boxes (although they do that, too), Hollman brands itself as a high-end interior architecture designer that creates bespoke, commissioned solutions that fit individual clients’ needs.
A number of recent studies have highlighted how the design of an office can either impede or boost employee relationships and output – and it’s not hard to understand why.
Noisy, distracting, toxic and disastrous. These are just a few words that have been used to describe open plan office layouts.
Landlords and developers are growing familiar with the idea that the workplace must be inclusive. That means finding space for the young and the old, for extroverts and introverts, women and men and for people with disabilities. But few have got to grips with the idea of the dementia-friendly workspace.
The debate around “open” workplaces continues to generate significant attention — but often lacking the nuance required for productive debate.
Each day you can generally find somebody or other sharing their thoughts on ‘the office of the future’ or ‘the death of the office’.
We should all count ourselves privileged to witness first-hand the most dramatic changes in working practices in over two hundred years.
Can developing spaces and furnishings dominated by curved contours improve the emotional well-being of a building’s occupants?
Why a focus on fresh air design strategies and outdoor workspace will help rejuvenate employees and reinforce a positive workplace culture.
Digital innovations, and in particular, cloud computing is enabling increasing numbers of employees to work remotely and flexibly.
The research claims that 85 percent agree with the statement that visitors and clients typically make a judgement of a business based on their workplace.
How does intentional design contribute to wellness-minded workplace and the WELL Building Standard’s concepts of building performance?
