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Wired
The Obama Presidential Center continues the tradition of presidential libraries reflecting their namesakes’ personalities and narratives. The three-building complex, in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side, clearly reflects Barack Obama’s proclivities and priorities as the nation’s 44th president. The design, by the New York firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, looks more like a park than a library of the sort associated with, say, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, or George H.W. Bush. Each of those buildings looks like something you’d see on a college campus, in no small part because, at least with regard to the Bush libraries, they are.
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PSFK
Homes encompass a variety of different rooms, each with a distinct personality depending on the room’s purpose. In hotels, the purpose of rooms is usually to store their items or sleep. A furniture fair in Milan, Salone del Mobile, showcased designs from ECAL students who created futuristic, one-of-a-kind furniture that would break up the monotonous room designs many hotels have.
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Fast Company
The airline industry is undergoing drastic change, heralded both by the economy and new advancements in technology. And with very small profit margins, airlines are always looking for ways to save money. One way to do that is to make airplanes lighter, which can be a serious saver of fuel costs across a fleet over time – for instance, one journalist calculated that just carrying one fewer bags of peanuts on flights for a year would save an airline $2,000 in fuel costs.
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The Architects' Journal
"Ever-greater percentages of single-person rooms in acute hospitals have been one of the most significant changes in healthcare design in recent decades," says Duncan Finch, a director at Avanti Architects, whose recent projects have included the new Ulster Hospital and the Sheffield Children's Hospital. "They offer practical benefits regarding infection control, gender separation, and patient safety, leading to reduced recovery times. And patients prefer single rooms, due to improved privacy."
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By Leslie LaskinReese
People eat out for two reasons: the food and the experience. Sometimes one takes precedence over the other, but for a restaurant to truly succeed, both must be deliberately addressed. Last month, I traveled with my daughter for a couple of weeks. By chance, we ate in three restaurants all owned by the same restaurant group. When we sat down in the third restaurant, I told her I thought all three were owned by the same people. What had I seen that made me so sure?
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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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Curbed
Taller Ken, a New York and Guatemala-based architecture practice known for its playful take on design, brought a tropical haven right into the middle of Guatemala City. Madero Cafe is quirky and energetic, with plenty of colors and plants to create an unexpected oasis near a busy highway. Inspired by a greenhouse, the open-air space has sawtooth skylights to light up the interior, which is full of patterns, materials, and textures sourced locally.
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By Michael J. Berens
Today's office spaces are a far cry from the colorless, regimented fluorescent-lit boxes of old. Thanks to years of research on the impact of office design on workers, office spaces today are open, airy, well-lit, aesthetically pleasing, healthier, and safer, offering a variety of flexible and adaptable work and social environments. Yet despite all these improvements, many employees still complain that their office environments do not adequately support the work they are tasked to do.
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IIDA
Join IIDA at the third annual IIDA Advocacy Symposium in Chicago for a three-day weekend of sessions, speakers, and panels focused on the advocacy topics that matter most to commercial interior designers. Learn critical skills, including how to build relationships with decision-makers, work with other stakeholder groups, and promote grassroots involvement. Connect with passionate, dedicated, and persistent commercial interior design advocates from across the country. Space is limited. Register now.
IIDA
IIDA is now accepting submissions to the IIDA/Contract Magazine Showroom and Booth Design Competition at NeoCon 2017. This competition honors originality of design, visual impact, effective use of materials, and the outstanding use of space, color, texture, lighting, and graphics in showrooms and booths at NeoCon. The competition is open to exhibitors at NeoCon 2017, scheduled for June 12-14, in Chicago. Entries will be judged by a panel of industry professionals.
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Our dedicated Architectural Reps provide Designers with professional-grade color visualization and presentation tools to help your design come to life. And via our website, access Behr Color Trends, downloadable color palettes, and the Autodesk® Revit® design tool. To receive your comprehensive Behr Architectural Color Box, CLICK HERE.
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Healthcare Design
Leaders of St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia wanted to set the tone for a new four-story, 135,000-square-foot critical care tower by creating a lobby that was welcoming and playful. But they weren’t looking for stereotypical cartoon characters or a primary color palette. Toying with the idea of combining child’s play with special locations in the region, the design team developed features for the space such as large-scale graphics of local settings complemented by origami shapes cast into the flooring to serve as a wayfinding.
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Curbed
The St. Regis Bal Harbour underwent a $35 million "enhancing" that was completed a few months ago. These enhancements followed several other new elements that included a new four-bedroom suite collection; a couple of other new restaurants in the BH Burger Bar and St. Regis Bar & Sushi Lounge; and a 1,800-square-foot event space named the Caroline Room. The redesigned lobby features a contemporary glass framework that allows light to beam in from the side as well as from above, providing an open, bright setting for meetings or a relaxing cup of coffee.
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This unique and diverse line of extruded aluminum trims was designed to enhance all practical aspects of drywall construction and transform it into a design medium that can make it the feature, the focus and the most impactful element of a well-designed space.
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Interior Design
Like a grand Parisian apartment, Moncler’s New York City flagship sequence begins with a proper foyer. Shoppers, having opened the tall glass front doors with the help of Louis-style oiled-bronze pulls, encounter a bronze Moncler logo set into the floor and, to either side, wall installations comprising tall, curved louvers anodized gold and backlit to radiate a sunny warmth. It’s a surprisingly abstract, contemporary introduction to an interior built upon a firm foundation of tradition.
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Wired
“The interior of an automobile used to be nothing more than a soft bench seat and a roof to keep occupants comfortable and out of the elements,” says Michael Harley, executive analyst for industry research firm Kelley Blue Book. “Today, it’s a safety cage, a music amphitheater, a telephone conference room, a place to eat meals, and more. Vehicles are no longer machines that simply move people between two points, and shoppers demand much more from the interior than they did even a decade ago.”
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Building Design + Construction
New insights recently released from Steelcase Health underscore the importance of family participation during a patient's hospital stay and highlight how patient room design can impact family experiences and influence patient satisfaction and outcomes. The company's findings also reveal that, in most current patient room settings, many family members still have significant unmet needs.
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Harvard Business Review
One of the most difficult parts of a manager’s job is giving feedback. In a survey of 7,631 people, the participants were asked whether they believed that giving negative feedback was stressful or difficult, and 44 percent agreed. When talking with managers about giving feedback we often hear comments such as, "I did not sleep the night before," "I just wanted to get it over quickly," "My hands were sweating and I was nervous," and "They don't pay me enough to do this job." Harvard Business Review found that because of this anxiety, some managers resist giving their direct reports any kind of critical feedback at all.
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Forbes
One of the most important skills necessary to thrive in any aspect of life is to be a good listener. But what does it mean to be a “better” listener and how can you use this skill to find success? The best piece of advice I can give to help someone become a more effective listener is to understand that there are many different types of communication styles and that the background of the person you are speaking with may be different from your own.
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