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Officing Today
Workplace design expert, Kontor, released their first 2016 quarterly trends report. "We launched Kontor’s new Design Pulse, a recurring feature that highlights emerging global trends we are seeing on our site. In this first roundup, we''ve compiled various themes, designs, materials and more [that] are gaining in popularity on Kontor since the start of 2016." Flexible workspaces have evolved over the years and furniture (and also design) choice can greatly contribute in creating the right environment. Blake Zalcberg from OFM said, "Operators should focus on creating an environment that drives people to want to spend time in the office," and this means making sure that you're offering clients and members what they're looking for.
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Fast Company
Many companies are starting to build a meditation practice into their culture – from starting out the day with a group meditation session to encouraging individual practices. Yet few companies have actually designed their workspaces around it. Enter Headspace, the makers of the popular meditation app of the same name. Its new 18,000-square-foot office in Santa Monica, California, is designed with meditation in mind.
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Travel Daily News
New York City's first "living" hotel, Renaissance New York Midtown Hotel, is specifically designed to interact with visitors from the moment they enter the hotel. The property features ambient intelligent corridors that respond to human movement, digitally enhanced elevator banks, and a never-before-seen Discovery Portal Powered by Time Out, which showcases hyper-local neighborhood guides on a user-friendly digital alcove accessed with the point of a finger or tap of a toe. A four-story LED digital clock at the top of the building will also bring the hotel to life and will add a beacon of light to the city's skyline for all to enjoy.
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The Urban Developer
First impressions count for a lot, especially when it comes to selling your company's brand image to customers, staff, and business partners. For many, entry into your lobby or reception area will be the first physical interaction with you and a spot where impressions will be quickly formed. Here are some amazing office lobbies and reception areas which create an amazing impression.
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Healthcare Design
Once plagued by concerns over healthcare reform, healthcare architecture, engineering, and construction (A/E/C) firms are taking a step out of the legislation’s shadow as the industry collectively moves forward, albeit cautiously. If anything, the Affordable Care Act is presenting new opportunities to collaborate with clients on built environment solutions to evolving care delivery models. While in past years, the industry reported being essentially in limbo until ACA aftershocks had run their course, this year, Healthcare Design’s 2016 A/E/C Survey registered a new swell of activity in its place.
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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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Work Design
Breather, an on-demand workspace network, partnered with a plant design company to turn an existing room into "The Oasis" – "a space for Breather members to immerse themselves in a room overflowing with productivity-enhancing greenery," said Dave Haber, Breather's VP of growth and marketing. "We're constantly exploring new ideas around workspaces that promote focus and productivity, and it is overwhelmingly clear that having living plants present in a workspace improves our ability to maintain attention, and boosts productivity and well-being," said Haber.
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Sourceable
Every day in shopping centers across Australia, disabled people face frustrations over access in retail outlets despite provisions in the National Construction Code and BCA that are supposed to prevent access issues. As architects, we have detailed knowledge of the standards and regulations relating to disabled access – factors like door clearances, heights of obstacles, fixtures in the path of travel, ramp gradients, and so on. Yet many find in their day-to-day experiences of life that the standards do not go far enough to provide access for everyone, whether they're in a wheelchair or even more commonly, using a pram or stroller with young children.
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IIDA
IIDA has released its Industry Roundtable report tackling the topic of diversity and inclusion in the design industry. The report, "Diversity and Design: Why Gender, Equity, and Multidisciplinary Thinking are Essential to Business," summarizes the lively and productive discussion of 30 design industry leaders at the 19th annual IIDA Industry Roundtable in January 2016 and provides a strategic roadmap for the newly formed IIDA Diversity Council. The report is available to download on the website.
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IIDA
The IIDA/HD Annual Product Design Competition honors innovation, function, and aesthetic advancements in the hospitality industry. Exhibitors at HD Expo are invited to submit product entries, which will be judged for design innovation, technical advancements, cost and value, environmental responsibility, aesthetics, need, and usage within hospitality applications. Deadlines vary, see competition webpages for more information. The deadline to enter has been extended to Wednesday, April 20.
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Fast Company
One of the first things visitors will notice is the bikes: A massive ramp leads cyclists directly into the building and the plate-glass windows in the lobby show off bike racks. The design is meant to encourage anyone coming to the building to get there on a bike instead of driving. "There are several trends pointing in that direction," says Anders Solaas, executive vice president for letting and development at Entra, the building's developer. It's one of several features that will make the future office building ultra-sustainable. When it's completed, Oslo Solar will produce more energy than it uses – and possibly more than any other building in Europe.
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Interiors+Sources
Located in the heart of Midtown just across from Grand Central Station, New York City, the Haworth showroom aims to be an equally iconic and majestic testament to design. The company's frequently refreshed space showcases the changing needs and styles of today’s workforce, as it aims to provide a welcoming and energizing atmosphere to stir and stimulate the interior design industry. On entering the space, guests are greeted with gourmet coffee and an array of Cappellini lounge settings. "Our philosophy is to make this all a little less intimidating. We want to make it warm and fuzzy for our clients," said Scott Lesizza, principal with WorkWell Partners. "We used to bring them into a conference room, close the door, they're on one side of the table and we're on the other, and it creates this tension. People are grappling with or anxious about the idea of changing an entire office, so we want everyone to relax a little bit."
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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
Graduate design students at Iowa State University have created conceptual schemes for shelters that would house U.S. soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and help give them a sense of safety. The schemes were produced as part of a new studio called In Harm's Way, led by Lee Cagley, a professor and chair of the school's interior design department. Cagley asked students to conceive combat outposts, or COPs, for soldiers based in Afghanistan in the near future. The year proposed was 2022.
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Health Facilities Management
As ambulatory care has flourished, the U.S. healthcare market has focused increasingly on efficiency and the patient experience. Health systems are building ambulatory care facilities throughout their communities, rather than just the main hospital campus – patient convenience and a healthcare organization's visibility in the community are now key factors in choosing ambulatory care sites. To make their facilities as efficient as possible, many healthcare organizations are following Lean methodology to maximize value and minimize inefficiency in design, construction and operations.
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Introducing ECONYL® StayClean fiber - a solution dyed nylon 6 fiber made from 100% regenerated nylon. Intrinsically stain-resistant yarn with unique polymer characteristics that last the entire lifespan of the carpet, guaranteeing an easy water-only treatment. Stain-free carpets have never been so easy!
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The New York Times
Airports have been drastically transformed since the 1970s, when you could smoke anywhere, stroll leisurely through security and hug your loved one at the gate before boarding the plane. Passing through security these days takes forever and sometimes borders on harassment. The lighting is brighter than a World Series night game. Almost all the chairs have armrests, preventing you from splaying out. And the ambient noise – the endless gate changes, the last calls for boarding, the CNN late-breaking news – makes it almost impossible to relax. It’s no wonder then that passengers often feel more like prisoners than clients.
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Healthcare Design
In 2012, Family Health Center Inc.’s location had outgrown its existing facility, and with the impending patient increase anticipated from Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear's decision to expand Medicaid, FHC leadership determined it was time to improve and expand services, resulting in a relocation to the nearby Standard Sanitary Building. While an iconic structure, the building wasn't on the National Register of Historic Places or within a historic district, so there were no restrictions as to maintaining the original exterior appearance or other preservation guidelines. The design team was sensitive to the aesthetic nature of the building, though, and sought to retain the character as much as possible.
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Business Insider
"'Meeting' has somehow become a dirty word; when we hear someone say 'I had a day full of meetings,' we feel pity rather than envy," Caroline Webb writes in her book "How to Have a Good Day." She's found that the reason why so many of us dread meetings is "that we often pay a lot of attention to what we're discussing – the document we're sharing, the decision we need to make, the message we want to get across – and very little attention to how we're having the conversation." Webb shares her steps to improving the way you plan and participate in meetings, so that "meeting" is no longer a bad word.
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Harvard Business Review
Research shows that in leaderless groups, leaders emerge by quickly synchronizing their brain waves with followers through high quality conversations. Simply put, synchrony is a neural process where the frequency and scale of brain waves of people become in sync. Verbal communication plays a large role in synchronization, especially between leaders and followers. Synchrony between leaders and followers leads to mutual understanding, cooperation, coordinated execution of tasks, and collective creativity.
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Snowsound commercial interior acoustic panels feature innovative technology that mimics the sound absorbing qualities of freshly fallen snow. Snowsound’s utility and design creates an artistically pleasing interior space with acoustic comfort. Experience the difference. Learn more.
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