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Hospitality Design
The Wheelhouse Hotel has opened in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood as the maiden upscale concept from Bedderman Lodging. Housed within an overhauled 20th-century greystone, the hotel embraces its proximity to Wrigley Field with playful baseball-themed elements, ranging from a vintage green scoreboard and salvaged stadium seating to a baseball bat art installation. The living room-style lobby features polished concrete floors, salvaged furniture, warm brick walls, and exposed wooden beams.
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Fast Company
Created by Walt Disney in 1955, Disneyland has been a magical destination for kids and adults alike for the past 63 years. It’s also a huge moneymaker. Disney’s parks and resorts brought in nearly $5.2 billion in revenue in the last quarter alone, and central to its success is meticulous design. At it’s opening, Disneyland was different from the other theme parks of the era because it was designed to be more like a World’s Fair than a carnival. In fact, the famed ride It’s a Small World was featured at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York.
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Dexigner
DesignLSM has designed the interiors for a new casual dining concept — Avobar. Avobar, London’s first all-avocado restaurant, is a "must-visit" destination for health-focused millennials.
The 7740-square-foot space, accommodating 70 covers across two floors, combines an open and social dining environment with an in-house retail shop offering avocado-based skincare and lifestyle products. DesignLSM worked closely with the client to curate an eclectic interior that serves as the perfect “Insta-worthy” setting for London's avocado lovers.
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Metropolis
When Norman Foster first arrived in Hong Kong in 1979, the atmosphere was heady with possibility. The coastal territory, then under British rule, was shifting the underpinnings of its economy from manufacturing to finance, and already preparing for its eventual handover to China. Foster had embarked on his biggest commission to date, a one-million-square-foot headquarters for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation destined to become a pioneering landmark and an emblem of a new urban era. When it was completed, “it was the tallest building on the harbor,” Foster recalls in an email.
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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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PSFK
French beauty brand L’Occitane en Provence is bringing a fully immersive experience to its New York City 5th Avenue shop, offering visitors more than just products. The brand, known for its fragrances and personal care products like hand creams, is joining the league of retailers focused on incentivizing store visits by offering shoppers exclusive and personalized services.
Designed by Daniel Contorni and Blackburn, the nearly 2,000- square-foot shop features bicycles fixed in front of a backdrop of Provence, offering an opportunity for social media snapshots. The location will offer hand massages, the chance to create custom souvenirs, and even enjoy a Provençal treat.
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Chain Store Age
Meijer has gone urban — and smaller. The Midwestern retailer has taken the wraps off its smaller-sized, neighborhood grocery format with the opening of Bridge Street Market, located on the West Side of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The 37,000-square-foot store is focused on fresh and local food, convenience, and value. It features a full assortment of fresh and prepared foods, including bakery items, fresh meat, and deli offerings, along with an estimated 2,000 local artisan grocers. It also sells Meijer and national brand products, and basic cleaning, health, and beauty products.
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Interior Design
Innocad Architecture has developed an international reputation for conceiving streamlined projects from New York to Saudi Arabia. Closer to home, the Austrian firm designed Microsoft’s Vienna office. Recently, founding partner Martin Lesjak and his team were the hometown heroes for a project right in their own backyard: the History Museum in Graz, which plumbs the lore of the region, known as Styria, back to the Middle Ages.
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IIDA
Receive an entry to win one of two $250 American Express gift cards for every person who uses your name and IIDA member number as part of their membership application. The more new members you recruit, the better your odds of winning.
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IIDA
You’re invited to enter the 6th annual Best of Asia Pacific Design Awards and receive the accolades your outstanding project deserves. These awards seek to recognize and honor the highest level of creativity and design excellence in interior design and/or interior architecture projects from Asia Pacific countries. IIDA encourages you to enter before the Sept. 13 deadline. Winning entries will be published in an issue of Contract magazine, on the IIDA website, to the 300,000 IIDA social media followers, and in the official Winners Brochure.
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Design Milk
If you’ve ever taken a yoga class, you know the importance of a calm and inviting space. Considering just that, Warrior One yoga studio in bayside Melbourne hired GOLDEN design studio to create a space that offered an “organic, sensory experience for guests.” The new studio reflects their focus on holistic health by introducing guests to a peaceful place as soon as they enter. A large storage cabinet made of warm walnut veneer cleverly hides student’s personal belongings while in class. Dark sisal rugs span the ceiling for added warmth and texture, while cozy seating rounds out the room.
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Hospitality Design
The Grand Hyatt Bogota has debuted as the first Hyatt hotel property in the Colombian capital and the first Grand Hyatt unit in the country. Situated in the heart of the La Ciudad Empresarial Sarmiento Angulo commercial district, the 372-room hotel is designed by Chilean firm Echeverría Edwards and locally based practice Construcciones Planificadas S.A. to aptly reflect the spirit of the city. Fifty suites are included among the bold and vibrant guestrooms, which are equipped with floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the hotel’s verdurous inner atrium garden, as well as the city and the distant Andes Mountains.
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As good as fixed-frame tables when the dual-locking caster breaks are engaged, as fluid as water when in motion.  Mini Mobile is a highly functional table system that can fit into any project, no matter what the size.
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Entrepreneur
Few things conjure up a feeling of dread quite like the anticipation of a lengthy PowerPoint presentation. Professionals spend an average of 40 percent of their workday in meetings, many of which include a presenter reading straight from a slide deck. 71 percent of people report that the meetings they attend are a waste of time. Meeting attendees are so accustomed to this monotonous routine that they come armed with an arsenal of more interesting distractions, such as text messages, social media, and emails.
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By Lisa Mulcahy
 When working on your approach to an important project, there's nothing better than bold, original creative thinking. Yet as a manager, you understand that brainstorming with your team members can sometimes be a hit-or-miss endeavor. It's sometimes too easy for the more outgoing members of your staff to dominate the discussion, which means other people's valid ideas get overlooked. Also, there may be times when your group just doesn't feel as creative as they could be.
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