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Work Design Magazine
Work Design Magazine rounded up the three biggest office design trends anticipated to dominate 2017. From authenticity-centered design to the next iteration of workplace wellness to design that appeals to the greater good, here’s what the industry can expect to see next.
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The New York Times
The Helen Hayes is an unusual Broadway theater. Built in 1912 as the Little Theater, it is the smallest of today’s 41 Broadway houses, with just under 600 seats, and is in the midst of a top-to-bottom renovation of the building. Current plans consist of covering the theater’s interior with a newfangled tribute to a set of tapestry reproductions that once adorned the walls. The original artworks, chosen by the building’s first owner, were fabric installations intended to look like tapestries by François Boucher; the new artwork recollects them, but in a novel fashion.
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Health Facilities Management
As the design industry has matured with the incredible information and data available to planning and design professionals over the past decade, there has been a realization that designing to meet current codes and guidelines is not enough. Universal design is a new design approach that is evolving within the profession.
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HyperAllergic
The Second Avenue Subway, following long delays, incredible cost ($4.5 billion), and years of construction, finally opened its first phase on Jan. 1. It is the system’s "first major expansion in more than 50 years" as well as "the largest permanent public art installation in state history." That's due to large-scale installations that fill the Second Avenue Subway's four stations. These public artworks join the extensive underground art museum funded and commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.
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Skift
The luxury consumer in 2017 is seeking integrated experiences that align their various passions in a seamless whole, whereby the convergence of elements delivers a sum greater than its parts. According to The Future Laboratory’s new Luxury Futures Report 2016, “Luxury brands are becoming convergence spaces that facilitate culture, education, and wellness, combining diverse consumer needs into a single, multifaceted lifestyle zone.” In travel today, the most forward-thinking luxury hotels are playing the role of those convergence spaces.
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No matter what market or environment you are designing for, Acrovyn by Design can reproduce virtually any image, message or color onto your walls without the concern of damage. Forge a new aesthetic with a selection of ready-to-print patterns, or customize with stunning graphics. Create something beautiful and protect it for years to come.
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IIDA
What Clients Want, Volume 3, created by IIDA with the generous support of Tarkett and the IIDA Foundation, takes you on an international tour of exceptional retail design – from pop-ups to luxury shops – providing insightful project commentary about what it takes to create a unique costumer experience from the perspective of both the designer and the client. The book features 16 international retail design projects, including top global brands Barneys New York, Aesop, Intersect by Lexus, Montblanc, and more. IIDA Members receive one complimentary copy of What Clients Want, Volume 3 (pay only shipping + handling). Copies are also available for purchase.
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IIDA
IIDA announced the opening of the Association’s two premier design competitions, the 44th annual Interior Design Competition and the 25th annual Will Ching Design Competition. These international competitions honor outstanding, innovative, and original designs with the Interior Design Competition open to firms of any size and the Will Ching Design Competition recognizing commercial design from firms of five employees or fewer. The deadline to enter both competitions is Wednesday, Feb. 8.
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Columbus CEO
Picture an expansive brand HQ is located over a bridge and in a forest on 506 acres of land with a dotting of fields and lakes. The buildings are wrought primarily of polished wood, metal, and glass. They form a bustling campus that houses two distribution centers, three brand design teams, and model stores for each brand, an innovation and design center, a cafeteria, and the 2,200 people necessary to fuel clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch, as well as abercrombie kids and Hollister.
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Curbed
Transportation experts agree that poor street design – and the driver behavior it enables – is responsible for many of the U.S.’s astronomically high number of traffic deaths. Now, in a landmark case, the New York State Court of Appeals has ruled in agreement with safety advocates, finding New York City’s street design liable for a crash that put a boy in a coma.
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Bradley's new HS-Series Terreon® solid surface undermount basins have a clean, flat bottom design that maximizes basin capacity for general handwashing or multi-purpose use that also meets ADA guidelines. Five basin choices and dozens of colors provide design flexibility. Ideal for use in healthcare and general commercial applications.
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Inhabitat
The practice of building with shipping containers has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last few years, with today’s designs continuing to push the architectural envelope. Brazil-based Rodrigo Kirck Arquitetura used the repurposed material to create Container, a stunning co-working space cooled in part by two rooftop gardens.
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Designboom
Startup company Xiaozhu, located within Beijing, China's tech center has just completed its "sliced house" project, a highly flexible work environment. The startup company, which runs a peer-to-peer housing rental service, required an office interior fit for the fast-pace and unpredictable nature of their website. To match this, the "sliced house" incorporates spaces and furniture that easily combine and separate mobile meeting rooms, as well as power outlets that swing to desired locations.
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With over 350 brilliant colors, exquisite textures and natural looking woodgrains at competitive pricing and ready to ship from our U.S. facilities, this collection of surfacing solutions will enrich any design project, regardless of budget and time constraints. Learn more or receive an updated sample set at 800.228.2238 or sales@abetlaminati.com.
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Dezeen
Nearly a century of layered paint creates texture on walls throughout these offices for an advertising agency in North Carolina, which is a former factory. The design team left the walls and ceiling untouched, inserting freestanding boxes and partitions between the columns to subdivide the space. Layers of paint on the concrete structural elements, amassed during the building's history, were lightly sandblasted to prevent further peeling.
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Curbed
When good design is on the menu, it’s easy to become a culinary spendthrift. Case in point: Madison, this 3,000-square-foot, San Diego, California, restaurant. Carved from a former nightclub, the Mediterranean restaurant has a few intriguing interior quirks, including its 20-foot-high barrel-vaulted ceilings and wood-lined interiors. Inspired by both Japanese and Nordic design traditions, the restaurant includes leather recessed, rope-partitioned banquettes tucked into angular nooks, and accents in cool shades of pink, yellow, and blue.
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D Magazine
The tool manufacturer Hilti Group moved its North American headquarters from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Plano in 2015, in part to attract a millennial workforce. All three floors prominently feature the company’s materials, more than 26,000 pieces of it: graphite-colored steel desks, light fixtures morphed from cylindrical firestop speed sleeves, 27.5-inch rods made of drill bits welded onto the stairs, and 444 14-inch circular red diamond blades that jut out of the company’s logo on an upstairs wall.
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Entrepreneur
Let’s first define the say-do gap, so we know exactly what we are trying to narrow. Just as the name suggests, as a good leader and fellow employee, it is important that you practice what you preach. If you tell your team you are going to do something, do it. The better you follow through on your stated promises with visible actions, the more narrow your say-do gap.
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Fast Company
It's always been important for business leaders to openly admit their misjudgments to their teams and stakeholders – that's the only way to avoid similar pratfalls in the future. By fits and starts, the business world is coming around to embracing vulnerability, empathy, and transparency, even if we still have a way to go. Here's what six leaders said led to their biggest miscalculations of the past year, and how those experiences helped them each reset their game plans for the next 12 months.
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