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.
Collective D(esign) brings together a roster of industry leaders for a weekly series of panel discussions tackling a topic of particular relevance to IIDA members and the broader design community.
A technological breakthrough and a little-acknowledged bellwether of Modernism, the task lamp finally gets its due.
How to take cognitive, emotional, and physical well-being best practices from the office to your home office.
A surge in remote work after the coronavirus pandemic would also change residents' needs in an apartment community, multifamily experts say.
Slack became part of a moment we will mark for the next hundred years: In March 2020, the global economy changed forever. Work in America changed forever. We were reorganized by the coronavirus.
The Wedge ThoughtBoard has short lead times, ships flat, and is easy to assemble in multiples to create straight or curved room dividers.
AIA’s monthly Architecture Billings Index for March came in at a score of 33.3, a dramatic 20.1-point decrease from February’s score of 53.4, reflecting the deteriorating economic conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Louis Poulsen, the Danish lighting brand, is donating 1,000 KN95 masks to the Cleveland Clinic Weston, and other local health professionals and first responders in South Florida.
About 70% of US offices are open-plan workspaces, designed to encourage colleagues to bump into each other and share ideas—and, unwittingly, droplets of spit, mucus, and phlegm that can carry pestilential pathogens. Health experts are beginning to suggest that might need to change.
Orders for long-lasting factory goods fell 14.4%; commercial aircraft and parts orders dropped more than $16.3 billion.
In addition to the tragic toll on human life, the onset of COVID-19 has forced many of us to quickly adapt to remote working.
Megan Hart, NCIDQ explores how the return to the workplace will push us to consider infection control strategies common in healthcare interior design and architecture.
Everyone will return to a workplace changed in some way, though expectations will be different from person to person, and could create new tensions across generations at work.
“Wayfair sees the U.S. online furniture market as a $42 billion opportunity growing at a 15% compound annual rate [CAGR] through 2024 compared to 1.3% CAGR for the offline furniture retailing.”
It is important for us to realize that while the current situation mimics some parts of working remotely, it actually isn't regular remote work.
Contract tracing apps for co-workers, elevator ‘safe zones,' infrared body temperature scanners — businesses are beginning to re-imagine office spaces after the coronavirus.
Elgin, Illinois-based Rieke Office Interiors developed and is manufacturing a series of new SafeSpace office furniture products that are both adaptable and affordable for workplace social distancing.
As you might expect, demand has softened as most businesses in many states are not up and running in the normal way right now. Some orders have gone on hold, as we all wait to see how long this lasts.
