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Fast Company
Meridian Health, a new clinic in northwest Seattle, is a two-story building clad in rust-toned weathering steel and concrete masonry units of different dimensions, jigsawed together so they look like natural stone. Medical, dental, mental health, public health, and chemical dependency services are all found in this one clinic, instead of being scattered at different sites throughout the city – a thoughtful approach that centralizes healthcare. But here’s the kicker: This thoughtful building and its comprehensive approach to care was purpose-designed for low-income and underserved communities. And without the Affordable Care Act, Meridian Health probably wouldn’t exist.
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Inc.
What does it take to retain millennials? "Millennials value coherence between the physical workspace and the culture of the organization,” says Birsel+Seck Director of Business and Strategy Seda Evis. “They expect to see the office as an extension of the purpose and meaning of work. Although physical comfort is important, it's more than the ergonomic chair and desk setup; it's also about being comfortable in your skin and having the freedom to be yourself." To create a successful work environment for millennials, you need to do more than just offer a comfortable chair, good coffee, and technology. Here are four key learnings that will truly make them feel in their element.
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Chicago Tribune
Today's workplaces are created primarily for extroverts, thanks to the development of activity-based design. The original concept was meant to push people out of their cubicles and into environments that adapted to a specific type of work. But over the years, this concept has morphed into open offices, big collaborative spaces, and the pressure to be connected 24/7. This focus on extrovert office design takes its toll on the other half of the workforce, disintegrating the quiet and isolation needed for deep, creative breakthroughs.
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Healthcare Design
Lowly lobbies and stark, noisy waiting rooms are history. As healthcare organizations work to improve the patient experience, these spaces are evolving into destinations for education, engagement, and solace. It’s a necessary evolution, too, driven by a competitive market that offers more choice to patients in where they receive care and is influencing healthcare systems to view patients as customers as well as users of services.
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Fast Company
The idea that physical spaces can enhance our mental health and well-being may feel like a progressive one. But in fact, it’s been around for well over a century. In 1880, a psychiatrist named Thomas Story Kirkbride published a treatise on the design of mental health hospitals promoting the notion that architecture could have a curative effect – or as he chose to call it, a “special apparatus for lunacy.”
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Architectural Digest
Owning a private jet may seem like the ultimate luxury, but it's even rarer these days than one would think – at least, according to event designer and interior decorator Ken Fulk. "To operate a private plane, it requires a staff; it requires maintenance; it's a big endeavor. Flying private has become a little easier because of technology, which makes it super special when people truly have their own plane," he says. Fulk would know, as he has once again extended himself beyond the confines of his traditional job title, recently designing a 15-seat Falcon 900 private jet for an anonymous billionaire client.
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Progressive Grocer
Target Corp. unveiled design elements for the company’s most ambitious store redesign to date, with plans for the first fully “reimagined” store to open in the Houston suburb of Richmond near Grand Parkway Southwest. Target Chairman and CEO Brian Cornell introduced the Minneapolis-based retailer’s newest store redesign plans as part of the company’s commitment to invest billions of dollars over the next three years to refresh hundreds of existing stores.
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Curbed
While airport terminal architecture has a solid history of style and innovation, rarely is a proposal put forth to utterly redesign the runway. But that’s precisely the aim of Henk Hesselink, a Dutch scientist working with the Netherlands Aerospace Center. Dubbed the "endless runway," Hesselink’s brainchild is a 360-degree landing strip measuring more than two miles in diameter. Since airplanes would be able to approach and take off from any direction around the proposed circle, they wouldn’t have to fight against crosswinds.
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IIDA
IIDA and The Society of British and International Design (SBID) are pleased to announce the IIDA / SBID International Membership Alliance. This new partnership invites SBID Accredited Interior Design Professional and Associate Members to join IIDA, as well as IIDA Professional and Associate Members to join SBID, providing both groups with access to exclusive interior design resources and professional opportunities around the globe. The alliance offers an international platform for future strategic initiatives and builds upon the existing, collaborative relationship between the associations, which have previously partnered to present joint programs at design tradeshows.
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IIDA
IIDA released its annual Industry Roundtable report covering the emerging economic, cultural, and social trends that are shaping the next generation of commercial interior design. The report, “Design Then, Design Now, Design Next,” summarizes the productive discussion of more than 30 professionals at the 20th annual IIDA Industry Roundtable on Jan. 6-8, marking a major milestone for this seminal gathering of influential design industry leaders.
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Metropolis
The Mexican town of Troncones has drawn surfers for years, but its new boutique hotel, crafted in a "California modernist" style, caters to a more design-discerning set.
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Quartz
A team comprised of various groups specializing in healthcare design and improvement set out to test whether architectural and design features impact childbirth decisions. The research, published in a report titled “The impact of design on clinical care in childbirth,” bore out the hypothesis: Hospitals with many births and a low number of rooms usually had more C-sections, because they are “a way to move people through faster,” he explains.
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Michigan Avenue
When Dixie and BlocHaus took home “Best Restaurant Design” at the Jean Banchet Awards earlier this year, there was an obvious reason why: that killer dining room wall lined with hand-painted gold oyster shells. The best part? The idea isn't one lost at sea – it’s an old Southern tradition that oyster shells bring good luck to the home, so chef and owner Charlie McKenna was intent on their incorporation. It’s decor like this and the stories that back them that are adorning the interiors of restaurants and bars throughout the city, and as such, we’ve been doing double takes as we dine.
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SuperMarketNews
“The fresh visual design of the new logo is ideally suited to the current modernization process of Aldi Sud,” a spokeswoman for Aldi’s corporate headquarters in Essen, Germany said. Remodeled U.S. Aldi stores will provide an environment to showcase an expanded selection of fresh items, and brands and merchandising changes, U.S. CEO Jason Hart said. The company said the remodeling initiative – providing open ceilings, natural lighting and environmentally friendly building materials – would impact 1,300 of its 1,600 U.S. stores by 2020.
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By Lloyd Princeton
In times of uncertainty or negative growth, it makes sense to keep staffing to a minimum and draw on freelance or outsourced help when and if needed. When business begins to pick up, however, often the smarter strategy is to add staff in order to keep up with increased demand. Yet some potential clients I speak with still remember the sting of having to lay off employees during the last recession and are reluctant to staff up their firms again.
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Harvard Business Review
In a recent interview with Vox’s Ezra Klein, journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates argued that serious thinkers and writers should get off Twitter. It wasn’t a critique of the 140-character medium or even the quality of the social media discourse in the age of fake news. It was a call to get beyond the noise. For Coates, generating good ideas and quality work products requires something all too rare in modern life: quiet.
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