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The New York Times
For a century or more, office design has been our most useful metaphor for workers’ frustration. The color-sapped tedium of office life runs like a flickering current through the warrens of white-collar fiction — from Bartleby impassively facing his brick wall to Frank Wheeler caged in his dark cubicle in "Revolutionary Road." The fluorescence, the screens, the fabric-wrapped plywood dividers: They're demoralizing, humiliating.
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Healthcare Design Magazine
In 2004, as part of nationally coordinated antiterrorism efforts, Nebraska Medicine brought online a first-of-its-kind unit for the safe treatment of deadly infectious diseases. Early involvement of frontline staff with the design team of Leo A Daly was crucial to creating a unit that met the complex safety, operational, and psychological needs of clinicians working in this challenging environment.
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The Daily Mail
With an indoor football field complete with nets and goal posts, a glass cabinet graced with alcohol at the gentlemen's whisky bar and American-style diner booths, it looks more like the ultimate hangout than a place to work nine to five. But this relaxation haven is actually the headquarters of global company Airbnb – with each room featuring its own cultural-inspired theme to offer employees a well-travelled and worldly feel at the Sydney-based office. From a Hollywood ladies' bathroom to a quirky Cuban casa, the new working space has been transformed into Airbnb listings from around the world to showcase the vast diversity of destinations on offer through the accommodation website.
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Star Telegram
From the start, offices were constructed with productivity goals in mind. In the 1920s, a popular office layout consisted of one big room filled with individual desks all facing a supervisor who was charged with ensuring maximum worker output. The 1960s brought the rise of cubicles where makeshift offices were created by moveable walls. The turn of the 21st century brought with it a more open concept feel to offices. Cubicle walls continue to come down in favor of collaborative spaces where spontaneous discussion and teamwork are promoted. So why is workplace design important?
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Phys.org
Healthcare buildings in the United States use lots of energy and few embrace sustainability, but a study led by Cornell researchers writes a green prescription for finding practical solutions. "Historic data shows that current trends in energy consumption indicate a need to accelerate the sustainability movement in healthcare," said Rana Zadeh, assistant professor of design and environmental analysis, and co-director of Cornell's Health Design Innovations Lab. "Making healthcare buildings sustainable will make a significant difference in national energy use."
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IIDA
Healthcare design has been around for years, but there’s no doubt it is a hot topic at this very moment. With the passing of the Affordable Care Act, the rise of technology, and the expectation that wellness is imperative in the workplace, healthcare design is decidedly important now more than ever. IIDA EVP/CEO Cheryl S. Durst reveals her trend predictions in healthcare design for 2016.
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IIDA
The deadline for the biennial ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards is now Thursday, March 17 at 5 p.m. CST. Winners will be honored at the ALA Annual Conference in June 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Winning entries also will be displayed on the IIDA website, published in Contract and American Libraries magazines, and featured on IIDA social media. Learn more about submission requirements and enter today.
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The Acrovyn Wall Panel line provides designers the opportunity to reset their standards with extensive new design selections that install in half the time previously required. New trim and edge options, panel depths and endless finishes create a unique space that is both protected and easily cleaned.
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Healthcare Design Magazine
Cleveland Clinic has been working to standardize its design aesthetic over the years to create a unified identity for its facilities while improving patient care with an environment that helps to lessen stress and anxiety. When the opportunity arose to expand its Brunswick Family Health Center (Brunswick, Ohio) with a full-service emergency department, the provider decided to pull together its best practices in design, materials, finishes, and layout into the new setting.
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Dezeen Magazine
Steel shutters fold open to bring plenty of fresh air into this studio for Bangalore architecture firm BetweenSpaces, which is situated above the home of one of its founders. Materials including concrete, brick, wood, and steel feature in their raw state throughout both the exterior and interior, intended to reference the building's urban context.
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The Huffington Post
When it comes to interior design, balance is everything. When a space is well-balanced, it is not only esthetically pleasing to the eye, but it also gives a certain internal sense of gratification. Finding a satisfying balance when decorating a space can prove to be a challenging task. Such balance may be achieved – or missed – through different elements: Lines, shapes, styles, colors, texture, pattern, light, proportion, and materials. Many designers find that the integration of both Yin and Yang elements has the power of creating a natural perception of balance, due to the relation between masculine and feminine energy.
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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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Small Business Trends
Should you brand yourself or your business? The short answer is both. The better question is what should you brand first — your business or yourself?
Every brand, be it a personal brand or a business brand, needs to have a clear road map of the future. You must know where your brand wants to go, and how it's going to go there. This starts with a brand strategy. From there, you need to understand the major differences between building a business brand and building a personal brand.
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Forbes
Most entrepreneurs are so overwhelmed by the day-to-day challenges of their business that they rarely take the time to work on longer-term strategy (they work in the business versus on the business). As a result, strategy decisions are made in the same ad-hoc crises style as operational decisions, and the business suffers. Gut reactions are rarely the optimal solution to any problem.
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