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Entrepreneur
In today’s highly competitive business climate, companies of all scales, sizes, and maturity levels need to maximize the ROI they are pulling from their workplaces. For fast-growth companies with highly mobile staff, they may need a workplace that infuses adaptable, technology-rich environments so people can do their work whenever and however they need. For organizations that bring clients into their offices frequently, creating a space that communicates brand and leaves an impression is key.
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ABC News
In cities from Tokyo to Marseille, France, the concept of commissioning artists to convert guest rooms into contemporary, large-scale installation works has taken hold at a handful of hotels. For New Mexico, where art connoisseurs and collectors may be more likely to hit places like Taos and Santa Fe, the collection of rooms at Nativo Lodge has created a new art stop along Interstate 25 amid a string of mostly chain hotels and businesses.
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Dezeen
Airbnb's offices in London, Sao Paulo, and Singapore include features like an indoor village green, bleacher-style seating, and a reception desk modeled on a front porch. The international offices are all intended to reflect the online rental company's “belong anywhere” ethos and each interior has been created in collaboration with local design studios. The offices feature areas modeled on Airbnb apartment listings from around the world and include a variety of adaptable spaces, like the London office's "village green," which can be used for purposes ranging from informal working to presentations.
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Eater
James Beard Award-winning chef Linton Hopkins has opened his latest restaurant, and it's a looker. The restaurant's design's goal was to create "an inviting, internationally inspired destination, visually linked to the garden." Glass walls bring the garden's greenery into the restaurant and that's complimented by dark and light woods, cream, and beige. The decor and furniture make for a snazzy mid-century modern style, but are subtle enough that they don't suggest a period concept.
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MDNews
Four primary principles – accessibility, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and innovation – guided the reimagined model for healthcare delivery and governed the new University of Minnesota Health (M Health) Clinics and Surgery Center's design. While more patients seek care from providers within the facility, the building’s design prevents bottlenecks. Drawing from design features that improve efficiencies in airports and retail centers, the Clinics and Surgery Center is easily accessible and offers patients a number of amenities specifically aimed to improve their experience.
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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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QSR Magazine
When Super Chix founder Nick Ouimet decided his Texas-based fast casual needed a new design, he and his team first considered their own knowledge of the brand. "We're a classed-up chicken joint, so we asked ourselves, what does that look like?” Ouimet says. The result was a design with subtle nods to chicken coops and eggs, like arrow-shaped directional signs and mercury-tipped light bulbs. The focal point is a textured white brick wall with hand-drawn images depicting the concept's many specially sourced, high-quality ingredients. It's modern and fundamentally cool, but it never strays far from the down-home roots of its star dish.
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Healthcare Design
As a hands-on way to encourage wellness, more and more health systems are on a mission to show and tell their communities how to eat well. Introducing demonstration kitchens, some with mini-auditoriums, has become an innovative way for hospitals to engage the public in disease prevention and management. Interactive classes incorporate food samplings, practical tips, and take-home recipes. Some classes hone in on special diets – diabetic, weight-control, heart-healthy – while others give children a head start in learning how to assemble nutritious and delicious meals.
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IIDA
Join IIDA at the second annual IIDA Advocacy Symposium for three days 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, and connect with passionate, dedicated, and persistent commercial interior design advocates from across the country.
Registration is now open. Early bird pricing ends July 15. IIDA members must login prior to registering to receive the IIDA discount. Register today.
IIDA
IIDA is now accepting submissions to the IIDA/Contract Magazine Showroom and Booth Design Competition at NeoCon 2016. 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.
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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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Home Polish
"Joey Healy's work is all about geometry, so we wanted to incorporate this theme into his space," said designer Tina Apostolou. For a cosmetics industry that's all about getting that perfect shape for the shape of the individual’s face, geometry should play a big part in the design of a salon, so hexagonal mirrors, angular planters, and a custom-designed reception desk were placed throughout the salon.
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Interior Design
All that chatter about the digital universe and the demise of books. Nothing could be further from the truth... at least in Bucharest, Romania. The Romanian bookstore chain Carturesti and the architects at Square One have transformed a 19th-century building with a storied past into a 10,000-volume hub for the central Old Town. White-painted steel, oak, and pale gray carpet dominates the materials palette.
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Now stain-free carpets don't have to come at the expense of the environment. ECONYL® StayClean fiber is 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.
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USA Today
Hotels across the country are making sure their “Do Not Disturb” signs are getting the point across with flair. No longer are the signs just plain printed black and white door hangers. Now they come in different sizes, shapes, and fonts and with cheeky messages like the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego’s “Not Now. My Ego Needs a Rest.” Hotel managers say the signs are one way they can distinguish themselves from other properties that are vying for guests who increasingly want to stay in places offering interesting design and local experiences. Younger travelers, especially millennials who are in their 20s and 30s, tend to pay attention to such detail, they say.
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Design Boom
The new office of "aTOKYO co., ltd.," production manager of Tokyo International Art Fair, is located on the fourth floor of a nondescript building at the intersection of ikura minato-ku. The interior is comprised of three boxes that give structure to the 100-square-metered space. A concept was developed comparing the office to an event space where the everyday routines of work are put on display. The three boxes: A private workspace for the chief director, another for the president, and a meeting room for all, are where the idea comes to fruition.
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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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Entrepreneur
It is important to understand individuals’ needs to promote productivity, but businesses have mostly been hung up on key performance indicators (KPIs) when measuring output and efficiency. Thus, focusing on psychology can be a tough adjustment, leaving too much to chance. If you’re worried about being too qualitative with your productivity tweaks, these tips can help you keep your eye on the ball, while keeping your employees happy.
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Harvard Business Review
Many experts argue that creative thinking requires people to challenge their preconceptions and assumptions about the way the world works. One common claim, for example, is that the mental shortcuts we all rely on to solve problems get in the way of creative thinking. How can you innovate if your thinking is anchored in past experience?
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