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.
In less than one year, WeWork went from having a $47 billion valuation and being the darling of the venture capital world to needing an $8 billion infusion to avoid running out of money. This is the story of Adam Neumann, Softbank's risky investment, a failed IPO and how we got here.
Co-working space provider Industrious has entered into a partnership with Centro Ybor to convert the former Centro Ybor movie theater into a 45,000-square-foot flexible workspace. The new location is expected to open for business in the fourth quarter of 2020.
WeWork’s finances have grabbed all the headlines, but while the U.S. giant was trying and failing to raise money in an IPO, two smaller UK coworking companies entered insolvency proceedings.
Leadership styles are not considered in the design process for productive workplaces despite the majority of organizations agreeing they have a major impact on productivity.
Too little and you’re boxed in; too much and you’re overwhelmed. Brian Wilson of Pair sets the record straight on how much is just right.
The case on the open office is far from closed. Steelcase’s new podcast series “Open Office Truth” explores the history of the open plan, new research about how to focus and a new framework for designing inspiring spaces people actually use.
Despite some uncertainty in the business climate due to the upcoming election and other question marks about office demand, the fact remains that the office market remains on solid footing.
Built primarily from wood, with towers ranging from two stories to five stories, the building was constructed using 165,312 screws—so if the company ever needs to relocate, or if the office closes, all of the components can be easily disassembled, unlike a steel building that would be welded together and girded with concrete.
Capital spending by S&P 500 companies grew less than 1% in the third quarter, and would have fallen without Apple and Amazon.
New research into employee happiness and office planning confirms what anyone who has worked in an open office knows: Privacy trumps hip design.
As WeWork tries to right its ship following its disastrous IPO attempt, it is opening several large, new spaces in the D.C. market that will add hundreds of thousands of square feet to its portfolio.
There is nothing fundamentally good about an office phone booth. A sealed-off stall for making private calls is a clunky solution to compensate for the architectural pitfalls of ill-conceived open-plan offices.
Today the windowless office space has mostly become a thing of the past and modern offices are built around airy, open spaces with an abundance of natural light.
Architects and designers are finding new workplace and household uses for the stuff polluting our oceans. Last year, Humanscale introduced the Smart Ocean task chair, a version of its Diffrient Smart Chair that uses almost two pounds of nylon from recycled fishing nets.
