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Fast Company
In 1999, the movie "Office Space" lampooned the ubiquitous grey office cubicle. Fast-forward more than a decade and a half later, and tech companies are more likely to look like sleek open warehouses with lines of workstations and Aeron chairs or standing desks.
But a combination of fast-moving technology, backlash against open-space floor plans, and other factors are influencing the office of the future. Looking forward to less than a decade from now, experts believe offices will undergo some changes, both in how they look and how people collaborate. The good news is that more companies and designers are paying attention to worker experience.
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Sourceable
While sustainability advocates have long touted the benefits of green buildings when it comes to efficiency and environmental impacts, they can also have a positive influence on the bottom line of commercial businesses.
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Dezeen Magazine
Materials and furniture used throughout this Vancouver restaurant were influenced by traditional Italian osterias and a fictitious patriarchal figure named Savio Volpe.
Local design studio Ste Marie owns the Savio Volpe restaurant, located off the Kingsway Road in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighborhood, and took up the task of creating its interior.
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BevNET.
Recently, Pepsi announces its plans to launch Kola House, the first experimental kola bar, restaurant, lounge, and event space to open in the U.S. market. This first-of-its-kind hospitality venture is set to open its doors in spring 2016, with its flagship location in New York City's Meatpacking District.
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Buildings
High school student performance on exams can be improved by conducting tests in rooms with windows that look out on nature, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Illinois found that students' capacity to focus and pay attention improved by 13 percent if they had a green view from the room's windows.
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Acrovyn by Design® provides unlimited visual freedom to incorporate digitally printed photography, branding and more behind legendary, PVC-free Acrovyn. The 4’x8’ or 4’x10’ .040” thick rigid sheet is perfect for protecting imagery and walls in high traffic areas. Let your imagination run wild!
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IIDA
The GlobalShop Product Design Competition honors manufacturers and designers for product design advancements in the retail industry and is open to exhibitors at GlobalShop 2016. The IIDA/HD Product Design Competition honors innovation in product design for the hospitality industry and is open to exhibitors at HD Expo. Deadlines vary; see competition Web pages for more information.
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IIDA
IIDA and the American Library Association announce the opening of the 2016 Library Interior Design Awards. The biennial Library Interior Design Awards recognize achievement in library interior design aesthetics, creativity and function. Submissions are now being accepted in nine categories.
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Fast Company
Recently, New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced an order of 10 experimental "open gangway" trains that contain a single long, continuous passage. But careful consideration seems to have gone into the decision, and it shows us what subways could look like within a few decades — not just in terms of the gangways. Even if you don't notice it, the way people ride the train is changing.
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Design & Trend
SprayPrinter allows users to take an image off of their phone and paint it on their wall with an app, a can of paint and a handheld printer. The device borrows concepts from 3-D printing, typewriters, and combustion engines to create unique designs anyone can make.
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Any environment you design that integrates a Corian® solid surface can get a boost from Corian® Charging Surface. In an airport, a high-rise, office spaces, hospitals, hotels or more, you can now offer customers a solid surface that charges smart devices wirelessly. Learn more about specifying Corian® Charging Surface.
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Dezeen
Tenerife architect Fernando Menis claims to have developed a new construction technique, demonstrated by this concert hall in Poland featuring faceted surfaces of crushed brick and concrete. Fernando Menis mixed concrete and broken red brick — a technique he calls picado — to create the cave-like interior of the CKK Jordanki concert hall, which is intended to provide optimum acoustics during music performances.
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Forbes
Today, nearly everything in Lenny Kravitz's universe is by design — his anthemic music, his funky threads, his choice movie roles, his photography hobby, and his company, Kravitz Design Inc., the boutique residential, commercial, and product design house he launched in 2003. The New York-based firm should be listed as KDI on the Rising Stock Exchange in design, if such a thing actually existed. KDI's respect in the design community now matches the reputation of its famous proprietor.
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Builder Online
Consider the word "manage" for a moment. Synonyms for manage include make do, get along, and muddle through. Sounds like surviving, but certainly not thriving. Managers can achieve more when they become coaches and ask more of their teams. Here are three things that distinguish a coach from a manager.
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Design Success University
Nobel Prize winning Israeli-American psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, discovered that people would rather do business with a person they like and trust — even if the likeable person offers a lower quality product or service at a higher price! So when you are networking at various events, communicating on social media, blogs, your website, etc. keep this research in mind. Focus on building trust through relationships, rather than trying to impress strictly with intelligence and knowledge.
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