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Officing Today
Flexible workspaces, particularly co-working spaces, have put the workplace in a consumer-centric position; demanding that the environment be more user-friendly and be designed for the actual users and members of the space. Multisensory design is an architectural and design practice that allows for a better workplace design approach. It allows for this full-bodied experience by creating a "conversation" between designer, workspace operator, and user. This leads to better thoughtfully designed spaces that can be successfully measured and designed.
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The New York Times
President Obama and the team planning his life after the White House have selected Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, a New York-based husband-and-wife architectural duo, to design his presidential library in Chicago, tapping two modernists who are known for their refined work creating cultural and academic institutions. He said the two would collaborate with Interactive Design Architects, a Chicago-based firm run by IIDA Member Dina Griffin, one of the relatively few African-American women in the field and a resident of Chicago's South Side. Obama's plans for his presidential center are ambitious and expensive. His foundation in 2015 released a global "request for qualifications" for architects who could design what it described as a high-technology take on the traditional archival presidential library, including space for innovation laboratories, a community garden, and sports.
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Kontor
Hundreds of staffers. A soaring, nine-story building. A leading design firm. Add in a passion for handmade and vintage wares and an environmental mission, and you've got a recipe for an incredible 21st-century workplace. Just ask Etsy. In May, the online marketplace relocated to a massive, 200,000-square foot headquarters just blocks away from their previous office in Brooklyn's DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) neighborhood. The new space, designed in collaboration with Gensler, pays homage to some of the company's core values: Creativity, sustainability, and community.
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Interior Design
Douglas Elliman hit the jackpot at the former William Morris Endeavor headquarters, a glass building being renovated at the time. A lease was signed for 10,000 square feet split between the ground and second levels, and discussions between Tighe, chairman Howard Lorber, and president and CEO Dottie Herman began. "Edgy, current, residential in character," Tighe recalls of early directives. A tall order. To make guests and clients feel at home, part of the ground level was set up as a grand living room comprising two seating groups that immediately read residential. His scheme couples "classic furnishings," he notes, with luxe materials. Think leather-covered sofas, a variety of armchairs, and a wooden table, all counterbalancing the more industrial aura upstairs.
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Dexigner
The project by Terry&Terry Architecture houses a growing graphic/product design office within an existing brick building located in the Jackson square historic district. The design required the removal of the existing interior structure while leaving the existing perimeter brick structure and the original part of the front facade intact. The new design is comprised of adding a second story structure above the original floor that opens out to a roof deck injecting elements of the outdoors into the core of the office and inserting a steel ribbon surround at the front facade to create a large bay window and entry shroud, forming a looking glass with the work place and the eventful street life.
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Interior Design
A highlight at this year's NeoCon was Interior Design's annual healthcare roundtable, where more than 30 healthcare designers and manufacturers parried back and forth on everything from new technologies to legislation, moderated by Interior Design publisher Carol Cisco and president emeritus Mark Strauss. The discussion highlighted the importance of design to clients who are increasingly thinking tactically: "Before the recession, people were spending money more freely, now they spend strategically," noted Jane Rohde of JSR Associates. Mike Pukszta, Principal and healthcare practice leader at CannonDesign (St. Louis), says while non-academic clients usually want to see examples of designs in other facilities before they’ll give the green light, academic clients are more willing to be early adopters and consider new approaches.
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Chain Store Age
Pottery Barn unveiled a revamped interior at its newly designed store at The Village at Corte Madera, in Corte Madera, California. Inspired by a modern farmhouse, the 12,288-square feet location features dramatic high ceilings with exposed wood beams, a skylight in the center of the space, and 11-foot high steel framed doors that open to an outside seating area at the front of the store.
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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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NPR
The first rule of industrial chic: You do not talk about industrial chic. "We don't like the term 'industrial chic,'" says Jeremy Levitt, Co-owner of the New York City-based firm Parts and Labor Design. "The term 'industrial' is becoming overused," he adds. Call it what you will, it's everywhere. Restaurant designer Hilary Miners, of D.C.-based CORE architecture firm, had some thoughts about why. She remembers the look was popular as early as 2007, but she thinks the recession gave it staying power.
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designboom
Poacher & Hound café's new scheme integrates the use of natural materials, brass, and graphic elements, and responds as a physical representation of a poacher and a hound narrative. Located on the ground floor of a commercial building in an industrial area, the cafe offers a valuable point of difference to mount Waverley's cafe scene. Techne Architect's design embodies a slight industrial aesthetic, the liberal use of other earthy materials including terracotta, brick, and granite gravel add further texture and color to the space.
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Interior Design
Artistic creativity and ethnic diversity were the key in devising a decorative scheme for the Renaissance Paris Republique Hotel, which occupies a converted 1970s bank with a facade dominated by retro-futuristic lozenge windows. Symbolizing French achievements in design, the lobby boasts a museum-quality assortment of modernist seating by Pierre Guariche and Joseph-André Motte. African textiles are the reference point for the boldly geometric fabrics of pillows and throws in the 121 guest rooms.
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PSFK
Travel stress, what’s that? Cathay Pacific wants you to wait for your flight in the best way possible in their newly-designed airline lounge called The Pier, a flagship experience among Cathay's Business Class Lounges. It is 3,306 square meters big, can entertain 550 passengers, and staying true to the streets of Hong Kong, the lounge has a slow lane and fast lane. The former allows passengers to relax, read a book, or work, while the latter is an express lane for quick bites and drinks.
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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. Register now through July 15 and receive early bird pricing. IIDA members must login prior to registering to receive the IIDA discount. Register today.
IIDA
The 5th annual Healthcare Interior Design 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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Fast Company
Design projects typically kick off with a brief, but in the case of the new HiLo stool that the San Francisco engineering and design firm Box Clever developed for Knoll, it began with a metaphor seemingly pulled from left field. The HiLo is a new seating piece that debuted at NeoCon. The piece is shaped like a dumbbell – it has a central post with a slender seat on one end and a pivoting base on the other. It also provides a solution to the itinerant way people work today.
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Healthcare Design
Many design firms across the country say that some of their most innovative work comes when working with academic medical center clients. "Often they're pioneers in specialty services and research," says Omri Kenneth Webb, Associate Principal and Senior Vice President at HKS (Washington, D.C.). "This manifests itself into the design of new facilities and specialty rooms."
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Fast Company
When the first 365 by Whole Foods Market location opened on May 25 in Los Angeles, Whole Foods fans recognized the new grocery store's quality standards, but not much else: Gone were the seemingly endless selection of olive oils, the expert cheesemongers, and the artful displays of seasonal produce, single-origin coffee beans, and natural cosmetics. In their place is a simple design, streamlined product offerings.
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Forbes
Whether you are going through an executive coaching process or not, you can use these five practices to more predictably meet the goals you’re setting for yourself.
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Forbes
Paid vacation time is one of the most prized forms of professional compensation. So, why are we so bad at taking advantage of it?
A survey by travel industry organization Project: Time Off found that Americans took 16.2 vacation days in 2015, and 55 percent left vacation days unused. The grand total of those unused days? 658 million.
Even as smartphones and increasingly powerful Wi-Fi keep us tethered to the office no matter how far away we may physically roam, managers and their employees alike are realizing the importance of taking time to repair and recharge.
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