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The Washington Post
Office space design is undergoing a period of experimentation. Some of the ideas have been transformative, such as the adaption of open office design, co-working spaces, and environmentally friendly materials. Today begins a local experiment of another idea: Outdoor offices. The Peterson Cos. development firm opened a 20-seat outdoor space in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, featuring desks, chairs, electrical outlets, and wireless internet service aimed at coaxing employees typically chained to their desks or cubicles to go outside.
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Chicago Inno
The focus of this year's conference is "Design That Works" with a particular emphasis on innovation in the workplace. Architects, interior designers, and furniture manufacturers took on the challenge to reimagine offices with flexible workspaces that offer privacy, community, and a purposeful design aesthetic. Trends that popped up throughout the showrooms include modular furniture, comfortable cubicles, mid-century modern, exposed wood, and pastel shades.
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Kontor
The design world recently took over Chicago as industry leaders flocked to the Merchadise Mart for NeoCon, North America's biggest contract furniture trade show. Kontor shares some of their favorite new products and showroom displays from this year's show.
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NWI
Open office designs, lounge settings, and sit-stand desks were among some of the trends on display at the NeoCon design exposition. The open office design, popularized by tech companies like Google, remains in vogue, said Leo Welter, vice president of product marketing at Green Bay-based KI Furniture. But that's also created the need for "third-space" modular, adjustable lounge areas that offer some degree of privacy, Welter said.
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Fast Company
Though research shows that the interior design of mental health units can help relax patients and erase the stigma of disease, many hospitals lack the resources to make improvements. Curator and art consultant Niamh White and artist Tim A. Shaw are using their connections and expertise in the art world to help fix that. Their project Hospital Rooms is connecting artists with a hospital in London to refurbish its mental health ward.
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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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Metropolis
More and more employees are looking for wellness-related office amenities as they trend toward working longer hours. Being in the office for an upwards of twelve hours, in some cases, means that workers may not have extra time to spend tending to their own well-being, and companies are making an effort to compensate for that. HLW design director Suraj Bhatia sees those kinds of requests from most businesses he works with: "Massage chairs, nap rooms, or even doctor visits, are a lot of what I hear about from companies, whether they're large or small scale."
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Fast Company
To architect David Rockwell, the best clients are a lot like great theater directors. "They know what they want, but they don't describe what it looks like," he says. "There's a lot of open space and a lot of dialog." It's in this mindset that he collaborated with Knoll on a new office collection – called Rockwell Unscripted – which debuted at NeoCon.
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Health Facilities Management
Healthcare organizations are taking a holistic view that considers their responsibility to people, the planet, and profits – known as the three pillars of sustainability – when choosing interior design materials, and that includes flooring. Tim Cole, vice president of marketing for flooring manufacturer nora Systems Inc., whose U.S. headquarters is in Salem, New Hampshire, says, "The viewpoint from healthcare facilities is, 'What is a specific attribute that is going to bring value to my facility as well as make a positive impact from a human health perspective?'"
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Conde Nast Traveler
The Watergate Hotel recently showed off renovations worth $125 million as it opened for the first time since the waning days of the (second) Bush administration. The revamped hotel embraces its distinctive history, right down to pens inscribed with "Stolen from The Watergate Hotel" and key cards that read "no need to break in." While the refresh restored some of the hotel's original features, like its grand staircase and mosaic-tiled 15-meter saltwater indoor pool, a new contemporary restaurant was added in addition to a lobby whisky bar, sculptural furnishings, and other mid-century modern design components.
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IIDA
IIDA announces the opening of its 5th annual Healthcare Interior Design Competition. This competition honors and celebrates outstanding originality and excellence in the design and furnishings of healthcare interior spaces and is open to participants worldwide. Any design professional practicing legally within his or her jurisdiction may submit project(s) for consideration via the competition website. Projects submitted must have been completed in or after June 2014. The deadline for entries is Thursday, Aug. 11.
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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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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.
designboom
Located in Singapore's Robertson Quay area, the vibrant hotel boasts 293 rooms and is defined by the use of raw concrete that is balanced with the concept of immateriality by the use of mixed-media such as videos and projections. There are four different rooms available that have been conceived to offer a comfortable and timeless elegance. Warm colors, opulent materials, and high ceiling heights give the versatile rooms a sense of home away from home aesthetic. Each of the accommodation options is offered in varying sizes and diverse configurations. "The nicer room" opens onto a terrace, while "the bigger room" is a duplex-style loft with a terrace.
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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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Homepolish
After out-growing their first office space two years ago in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood, TwelveNYC CEO Katie Conovitz wanted her agency's new office to have more of a "lifestyle feel." "The open floor plan is definitely a welcome change. It makes the entire office more collaborative and promotes cross-pollination between the departments. But at the same time, there are break-out spaces for more private matters. And the pink lucite dividers? Those are just the icing on the cake!" says Conovitz.
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Chicago Tribune
Launched in September, Mamava is popping up at stadiums, airports, and businesses with its free-standing lactation station. The cozy enclosure provides an oasis for nursing mothers, while satisfying an Obamacare mandate for employers. Manufactured in Rhode Island, the 4-foot-by-8-foot pods feature a locking door with the Mamava logo. The outside can also be customized with sponsor ads or themes, such as a lioness with her cubs adorning units at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
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Culture Map
Far more than the standard compilation of desks and computers, the Sugar Land, Texas, headquarters of Heavy Construction Systems Specialists is a game-changer in office design with unique amenities ranging from an adult slide to a climbing cargo net. The office is a contemporary, somewhat whimsical office that boasts "spaces to increase the collaboration, communication, and workspace flexibility of our software developers," according to Tom Webb, HCSS' vice president of strategy/R&D.
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Metropolis
For Everlane's recently expanded office space in San Francisco's Mission District, which the brand's creative team designed itself, Everlane president Michael Preysman was insistent that it reflect the idea of transparency. When the company moved into its newest location – a 13,000-square-foot space in what was once the 1920s laundry facility J. Allec New Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works Inc. – it preserved the original open floor plan. Liberated from partitions and internal walls, the airy new digs focus on shared community spaces that encourage collaboration, both planned and ad hoc. Long communal-style tables do double duty for meals and meetings, while an open kitchen allows for impromptu encounters by the sandwich toaster. The building's most striking feature is the sawtooth roof, which, along with the spacious industrial windows, bathes the soaring white space in gentle, indirect sunlight.
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Chain Store Age
Store design plays a crucial role in attracting customers and driving foodservice sales in convenience stores. That’s according to the new study, Food-Forward C-store Design, which comes as more convenience retailers are pursuing foodservice as a growth opportunity. One insight the survey revealed was that an updated, elevated store ambience sends a message about the operator’s commitment to food service and conveys cleanliness and quality.
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Fast Company
You don't need to be told that leadership takes presence. But leaders today have arguably fewer opportunities to show it. Particularly if you head up a digital business or lead teams spread out across multiple locations, you're faced with generating "remote" influence at the same time that the people right there in your own office need to be kept motivated, too. Here are four habits that can help build leadership presence in a way that's meaningful, effective, and consistent.
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Fast Company
"Design thinking" has become the watchword for an entire generation of business professionals who think that becoming the next Steve Jobs is as easy as a whiteboard filled with disruptive ideation. "This broad definition of design thinking [practiced at many businesses] is a single-faceted cliché of what design really is, and how it can contribute to business," says Pentagram partner Michael Bierut. The duo explains why they think design education is increasingly important for business professionals – and, well, everyone else, too.
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