In This Issue:
More Bad News from DIRTT as Losses Climb to $19.3 Million on Sales of $44.7 Million
ABI March 2025: Architecture Billings Drop Again as Uncertainty Grips Clients / Nook Holds Prices Steady / WeWork CEO Says Tariff Uncertainty Could Fuel Surge In Demand For Flexible Offices / New York City Sees Best Office Leasing Activity Since 2019 / CRE Market Sentiment Plummeted By Most In Q1 Since Pandemic, Survey Finds / Law Firms Office Footprints Stabilizing Amid RTO Push / Federal Lease Terminations Drive 8M SF Of Office Occupancy Losses / Michigan approves $160M tax break for Muskegon’s Shaw Walker project / Modernism has been "misread and simplified" says Formafantasma / Is Furniture as a Service (FaaS) part of your Corporate Real Estate Strategy? / Great Expectations: What Is Today's Workforce Looking For As It Returns To The Office? / and much more
Office Furniture Supplier Vari Agrees To Pay $1.1 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Claims for Overcharging Federal Agencies / Virco Q4 Loss Wider-Than-Expected, Sales Miss Estimates, Stock Down / Crandall Office Furniture expands as remote work boosts demand / Humanscale Introduces Humanscale Living at Salone del Mobile Milano 2025 / Distressed Office Sales Spike as Urban Vacancy Rises and Remote Work Persists / The Office Market’s Newest Foe: Tariffs and Trade Wars / Trump Revokes Downtown Location Rules, Pushing Federal Offices to Cheaper Areas / Trophy Or Nothing: Study Shows Steep Drop-Off In Office Visits Below Top-Tier Buildings / Review: Salone del Mobile & Milan Design Week 2025 / "I was shocked" by dominance of luxury brands in Milan says Philippe Starck / Inside the factory where Ikea builds its flat-pack furniture / Five Years After COVID: How Work Has Evolved And Where It’s Headed / and much more…
Versteel Announces Tariff-Free Promotion for American Manufactured Tables / Component-maker Kaidi ramps up Grand Haven manufacturing plant / Kimball International Opens Health & Education Experience Center / Italian furniture makers experience impact of Trump’s tariffs at Milan Design Week / NOffice Construction Falls To New Lows In Top U.S. Markets / Tech Deals Lead San Francisco Office Leasing to 10-Year High / Want to Make the Office More Neuroinclusive? These Experts Offer a Start / The Building as Brand: A Watershed Opportunity in Manhattan Office / Remote Work’s Hidden Superpower: Cutting Emissions and Boosting Business / RTO Trends Slow as Weather and Hybrid Models Shape Workforce Patterns / Only half of Europeans say they work in psychologically healthy workplaces / Productivity concerns put brakes on adoption of flexible working / and much more…
Herman Miller Expands European Retail Offering to Four New Markets / Office sector is regaining its central role in commercial real estate - at a cost / Office Fit Out Costs Surge Amid Inflation and Material Price Increases / Stantec To Buy Page To Create Second-Largest U.S. Architecture Firm / Manhattan Clocks Most Active Quarter For Office Leases Since 2019 / Trump Administration Quietly Piloting New Program To Rethink Federal Offices Nationwide / Manhattan Office Availability Tumbles to Five-Year Low / Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos Amid Return to Office / Rethinking the office: Why organizations are turning to modular furniture / Live Event Amenities: The Next Frontier for Creative Workplaces / The Building as Brand: A Watershed Opportunity in Manhattan Office / Companies are offering 'recharge days' to workers enraged about return to office / Workplace As A Service: A Thought Experiment In Office Evolution / This Invisible Tech Is Molding The Future Of Office Space Utilization / and much more…
Boss Design acquired by Japanese based furniture maker Okamura / Steelcase Posts 9% Order Growth for the Quarter while MillerKnoll Growth Flatlines / Allsteel Dealer Insidesource Merges with Workpointe / UK furniture Manufacturer Bisley Reduces Losses Despite Decline in Revenue / Tariffs drive higher costs for MillerKnoll and Steelcase / Office Sector Sees Light at the End of a Five-Year Tunnel / GSA Releases New List Of Properties Slated For 'Accelerated Disposition' / I Turned These Office Chairs Into a Seesaw for Adults / Poltrona Frau joins LVMH and Prada in a high-tech fight against dupes / Janus et Cie’s new CEO has a plan: ‘It’s product, product, product’ / Maximizing Workplace Collaboration with ChatGPT / Suburbs are the New Business Hotspots as Flex Workspaces Skyrocket / High-Impact Spaces: A Tech-Rich Solution for Hybrid Work / Halfway Home: Redefining Workplaces Five Years After Covid / Coworking Growth Outpaces Traditional Office Development / and much more…
