In its fourteenth year, Shaw Contract’s Design Awards program recognizes the creative vision of the architects and designers who inspire new ways of living, working, learning and healing.
9 Products That Support Wellness in the Workplace
As our understanding of wellness grows more complex, designers are thinking about the full life cycle of products they are specifying for the workplace.
AIA: Billings Remain Soft in July
The Institute's monthly Architecture Billings Index came in at a score of 50.1 last month, which is a 1-point increase from June's score.
Shaw Contract Introduces a Regenerative Solution for Healing Spaces
Shaw Contract introduced Living Systems, a new Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Silver collection of 9” x 36” carpet tiles that represents a holistic design approach.
What the 21st Century office of the future looked like in the 1960s
We’re used to hearing people predict what The Office of the Future will look like. It’s been going on for a very long time now and each new generation of commentators on the subject comes up with its own forms of wishful thinking, wild generalisations, distorted conclusions and failures to account for the inherent unknowability of future disruptive technology.
Watch: Alexander Girard’s designs come to life
Shaw Contract Introduces Spirited New Solution For Commercial Spaces
Shaw Contract introduced Joy Squared , an American made LVT collection of 24” x 24” (61 cm x 61 cm) tiles inspired by the spontaneous and joyous moments of our youth.
How Workplaces Lose Money With Wrong-Sized Meeting Rooms
In the latest report from Density, more than 10,000 hours of meeting room data were analyzed—generated by their sensor platform—to explore how wrong-sized meeting rooms cost workplaces millions of dollars every year.
Workspace provider Knotel secures $400M, putting it in WeWork’s rear-view mirror
Knotel has now completed a $400 million financing, led by Wafra, an investment arm of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Kuwait.
Conscious Design
Creating a culture of learning
Steelcase CEO Jim Keane explains how giving people work-space choices can make workplace behavior more human.
The office is increasingly able to recognise you, but will you recognise it?
Already, technologies once confined to the realm of science fiction are trickling into our everyday lives. But how can we use these impressive advancements—existing and envisioned—to create a better workplace?
LISTEN: Gregg Buchbinder of Emeco
Gregg Buchbinder, Chairman of iconic furniture brand Emeco, grew up in southern California, on a “long leash” and with a constant longing to be surfing or sailing.
What Workers Told Us About Collaboration
No matter where you are in the world, new research tells us the conditions needed for successful collaboration are universal.
Catwalk to the office
Employees design their own workspaces at the new Zalando headquarters in Berlin. And the public spaces offer a great variety of unique opportunities for social interaction.
WeWork Is Valued 10 Times Greater Than This Profitable, Public Rival
Like WeWork, IWG operates furnished, serviced offices around the globe that it rents out to companies and individuals under short-term deals and is best known for its Regus brand.
How Opportunity Zones and Co-Working Spaces Joined Forces
The combination of opportunity zones and shared office space is creating incubators of start-ups and investors in underserved markets.
Go inside a new store devoted to Ikea hacking
Swedish furniture behemoth Ikea—and its expansive collection of prefabricated pieces—are practically omnipresent in homes around the world.
The open plan debate should never be seen as a zero sum game
The debate on open plan versus enclosed offices rages on, but workplace design is not a such a simple dichotomy.
As Market Wobbles, Rivals Take Aim At 'Magic Money' WeWork
After WeWork detailed the most complete picture to date of its corporate finances last week, the leaders of some of its main competitors wanted to make a strong point: We are different.




















